On April 19, 1775, the Patriots won the first Battles of Lexington and Concord
By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS
On this day in history, April 19, 1775, we marked the 246th anniversary of the launch of the American Revolution with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. In those battles, where the “shot heard round the world,” American rebels surprised the British regulars taking up arms and winning against the mighty Redcoats. If 1776 had the spirit of independence for Americans, Americans had the spirit for war in 1775. When the thirteen colonies decided to rebel against Britain, fighting for their rights and liberties, most of the 2,500 colonial Jews joined in the fight hoping their liberties would be extended and they would be granted political equality.
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IMAGE: A schematic of what the authors think the landscape and human activity was like over the last 1,200 years in the Fish Lake Plateau region. A) 1,200 to 500 years. view more
Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi
If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you d find conditions remarkably familiar to the present. The climate was warm, but drier than today. There were large populations of Indigenous people known as the Fremont, a who hunted and grew crops in the area. With similar climate and moderate human activity, you might expect to see the types of wildfires that are now common to the American West: infrequent, gigantic and devastating. But you d be wrong.
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