American minutemen and British soldiers fight at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, beginning the American Revolution. The Patriots met the British at Lexington Green, where the first shots were fired. Significantly outnumbered, the minutemen retreated to Concord, where a larger Patriot force defeated the British and harassed their retreat back to Boston.
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