Kickstarting a Revolution: A British Officer’s Perspective, Part 1: Shots Fired in Lexington
Some of history’s biggest turning points have occurred in small frontier towns of no consequence, witnessed by observers who could not guess their long-term impact. One such town was Lexington in the Crown Colony of Massachusetts. On the morning of April 19, 1775, a group of British soldiers entered Lexington on a routine mission: to confiscate weapons belonging to a colonial militia. The shots fired in Lexington that day took them by surprise.