On a cool Massachusetts morning, April 19, 1775, a group of farmers, tradesmen, and other
“Minutemen” led by Captain John Parker, gathered on Lexington Commons to…express umbrage, at the British Crown’s illegal attempt to confiscate Colonial Weapons.
“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here,”
declared Parker.
No one knows who fired the first shot, but at the end of the bloodletting, eight Americans lay dead and as many wounded. This came to be known as the
“shot heard ‘round the World” and the de facto beginning of our American Revolution.