The British were after a cache of gunpowder and several cannon they had learned that the colonists had at Concord. Along the way at Lexington they encountered the Lexington Minute Men drawn up on the town green, beside the road. British officers ordered the Minute Men to disperse ("Disperse, ye damned rebels!"). No one knows who fired the first shot. Fourteen Minute Men were killed, and no British, though one or two may have been slightly wounded. The British pushed on to Concord and found more serious resistance as Minute Companies poured in from all directions. The cannon and gunpowder had been hidden and were not found. The British burned several houses and started back for Boston. Their retreat quickly became a near rout, as the Minute Men took cover behind stone walls in fields beside the road and kept firing at the British. Then the Minute Men would scurry ahead and repeat the process. A relief column sent out from Boston met them on their return to Lexington, but all were harried the entire way back to town, and several hundred British troops were shot. The British entered numerous houses beside the road from which they claimed firing had come, and killed all persons found inside, and set many on fire. Lack of a coordinated effort and an overall commander prevented the complete destruction or capture of the entire British column.
Lexington and Concord, Mass were the sites of the battles.
They were marching to Concord.
Concord.
The battle of Lexington. Indeed the British troops engaged at Lexington were the same who had to carry on the march to Concord.
General thomas gage
Lexington and Concord, Mass were the sites of the battles.
They decided to give it to King James.
Lexington and Concord
They were marching to Concord.
The colonists seen that they were out numbered, and turned around to go back. As they were leaving a shot was fired and it started the battle of Lexington and Concord.
to battle against the colonists, because the British troops tried to revolt against them
Concord Bridge
The siege against British troops at Boston
Concord
Concord.
At dawn on April 19.
The battle of Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, was one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War. As troops from surrounding towns arrived at Concord, they far out-numbered the British. The British troops retreated when they found themselves out-numbered and out-maneuvered.