Dawes may have gone by Harvard, but it wasn't an university in 1776. It was made one in 1820.
The Dawes Act fulfilled a desire of the U.S. government to suppress the Indian way of life & force assimilation to white culture.
When British Major John Pitcairn arrived at Lexington, which was on the way to Concord, he found 70 American minutemen (actually, they were almost all farmers) in battle formation at the town square. He had been informed that the Americans had stored munitions in Concord and that Adams and Handcock were in Concord. Pitcairn ordered the Americans to disperse but when they didn't move after the second order to do so, someone fired a shot. It is not known if the shot was fired by Americans or British. The British easily cleared Lexington and marched on to Concord. He found more Americans arming the bridge into the town so Pitcairn order the British to return to Boston. All the way back to Boston, the Americans sniped at the British from behind trees and rocks, inflicting serious injury to the British troops. When the Redcoats reached Boston, 250 had been killed or wounded. Lexington and Concord are considered the first battles of the Revolution.
The Battle of Lexington was at Lexington, MassachusettsThe Battle of Concord began at Concord, Massachusetts, and as the heavily outnumbered British retreated, became a running battle all the way back to Boston.
The Dawes Act was implemented in the United States in 1887, with the goal of dividing up Native American lands so that individuals would live separately from their tribes, thus becoming US citizens. The overall goal of the act was to assimilate Native Americans into European American culture. However, it did not work. Native Americans continued to carry on their beliefs, and passed them down from generation to generation.
The start of the revolution was April 1775 in Lexington and Concord when the British marched to find a stockpile of powder and weapons in Concord. The first shots were fired in Lexington when 77 men and boys waited on the village green for the British that morning. No one knows who fired that shot, but it resulted in some of the Lexington men dying, houses being burned and ransacked by the British before they moved on to Concord. Word got out what had happened in Lexington and by the time the British got to Concord colonists were waiting for them. Another event happened at the Concord Bridge where more shots were fired. The British retreated, but all the way back to Boston the colonists fired at them from behind trees, rocks, and the fence that bordered the road. Some of the British troops went mad seeing friends wounded, or killed. It was a hot day and the troops worn wool uniforms, had wet boots from landing in Charlestown in boats, and they had no water or food that day. The British were not prepared for what happened that day. It will be another year before the Declaration of Independence is written in 1776 and the battle of Bunker Hill.
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William Dawes and Samuel Prescott
There is no town between Boston and Lexington. The distance is about. 5 miles between the two. He never made it to Lexington because he fell off his horse soon after leaving Boston.
The patriots expected the British to pass through Lexington on their way to Concord, where supplies of guns were stored. It should be Lexington and Concord.
The purpose was the generale sent soldiers to go arrest the patriot leaders. But Paul Revere and William Dawes, members of the sons of liberty, went on a night ride on April 18 to warn Hancock and Adams that british soldiers were on there way. When the British arrived in lexington on April 19, they found minutemen waiting for them.
They used a large on a lighthouse, also Paul Revere, William Prescott, and Philip Dawes rode thought Lexington and Concord warning the militia. Paul Revere was arrested, Philip Dawes ran away and Prescott was the only one who made it all the way through, everyone just exaggerated Reveres accomplishments and gave no credit to Prescott
The Dawes Act of 1887 was a U.S. land-distribution law proposed by Sen. Henry L. Dawes (1816-1903) of Massachusetts as a way to "civilize" and make farmers of the American Indians. Review the provisions at the link provided below.
The Dawes Act fulfilled a desire of the U.S. government to suppress the Indian way of life & force assimilation to white culture.
They were now treated as individuals
The address of the Beaumont Branch is: 3080 Fieldstone Way, Lexington, 40513 1717
They were now treated as individuals
They were now treated as individuals