The Battles of Lexington and Concord

Remake of the Lexington Battle

The battles of Lexington and Concord occurred during the date of April 19, 1775, when troops of Redcoats went to Lexington to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock, and also went to Concord to destroy Patriots’ weapons and ammunitions.

When the British arrived to Lexington they found a group from 200 to 300 colonists gathered, that have the plan to split and stop the British. A shot was heard and the British respond the firing by shooting and killing seventeen colonists. After this they decided to destroy Patriots’ ammunitions in Concord. When they were destroying the ammunitions the colonists saw the smoke and start reuniting the militia to face the British. British fired killing two colonists, and Americans answered back killing three British.

A representation of the battle was made with LEGO 

At noon British commander Colonel Smith decided to go back to Boston because the work was already done. As they were retreating a group of militiamen followed them and shot at every opportunity they have. The soldiers run as fast as they could to escape until they found the reinforcement leaded by Lord Percy, but after a little time of being there they decided to withdraw to Boston because the militia was too big.

Lord Percy stated that: “Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken. Nor are several of their men void of spirit of enthusiasm as we experienced yesterday, for many of them concealed themselves in houses and advanced within 10 yards to fire at me and other officers, though they were morally certain of being put to death themselves in an instant.”

At the end of the first day of battle the British lost 65 soldiers dead with an addition of other 173 that were wounded. In contrast to the colonists that lost only 49 militiamen dead with an addition of 46 that were wounded.