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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

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To which battle does this refer?:“77 minutemen were waiting when the British arrived. The British commander ordered the minutemen to go home. They refused. Suddenly, a shot rang out. Nobody knew who fired it, but it turned out to be “the shot heard round the world.” The British then opened fire, killing eight Americans.”
A
Yorktown
B
Lexington & Concord
C
Fort Ticonderoga
D
Saratoga
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fighting Breaks Out in Lexington and Concord . At dawn on April 19, some 700 British troops arrived in Lexington and came upon 77 militiamen gathered on the town green. A British major yelled, “Throw down your arms!

Detailed explanation-2: -The Midnight Ride was the alert to the American colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous ‘shot heard ‘round the world’, marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83).

Detailed explanation-5: -Selected members of the militia were called minutemen because they could be ready to fight in a minute’s time. Sure enough, when the advance guard of nearly 240 British soldiers arrived in Lexington, they found about 70 minutemen formed on the Lexington Green awaiting them.

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