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General Braddock had 1,300 troops and militia at his command.
paul revere
1739
Colonial militia chased the British to Boston.
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Militia
Virginia
No one knows who fired the first shot. Six companies of British infantry marched into Lexington at dawn, where they found the town militia in formation on Lexington Common. A British officer ordered the militia to lay down their guns, which they did not do. Both the Captain leading the militia and the Major in charge of the British told their men to fire, but their orders were not heard in the noise and confusion. Some of the British troops rode into the Common to surround and disarm the militia. A shot was fired and the battle was started. Some colonials said the British fired first; some of the British soldiers said a colonial fired first; most on both sides admitted that they did not know.
Sybil Ludington rode through Putnam and Dutchess countries to warn the militia that the British troops were burning Danbury, Connecticut
militia
militia
Organized, with a chain of command.