The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war.

A dispute that’s been going on for centuries has heated up again as the neighboring towns plan competing celebrations to mark ...

On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington and Concord was the “Shot Heard Around the World” that marked the start of the ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem ... a half weeks before the “shot heard ’round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the conventional start of the American ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, several small farming communities rose up against the British and helped form a new nation. Now, the towns are gearing up to party like it's 1775.

1775, militias pursued British forces in a 16-mile running battle back to Boston. By the end of that day, 49 colonials and 73 regulars were dead. After the smoke clears in Lexington, people spill onto ...

but the annual battle reenactments since then start at dawn — as the actual events did in 1775. Every April 18, at the Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington, spectators gather before midnight to ...

The Relais et Chateau and newly anointed Michelin Key member, the Inn at Hastings Park is located near the Lexington Battle Green and has a full program of 1775 events and packages. Borrow the inn ...

This printed broadside from the Library of Congress illustrates how early information about the Battle of Lexington and Concord spread. New-York, Sunday 23d April, 1775. The following interesting ...

"We of Old Scituate should be proud to know that 212 Scituate men immediately responded to the Lexington Alarm on April 19, 1775. "And this trend continued throughout the Revolutionary War – 80 ...