THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To destroy a stockpile of weapons
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To bomb and destroy the city
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To capture George Washington
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-2: -On April 18, 1775, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington.
Detailed explanation-3: -On the evening of April 18 General Thomas Gage, the British royal governor of Massachusetts, organized 700 British troops for a march to Concord. The troops were ordered to destroy the colonists’ military supplies, or ammunition, in Concord.
Detailed explanation-4: -Facing an impending rebellion, British General Thomas Gage decided to seize weapons and gun powder being stored in Concord, Massachusetts, twenty miles northwest of Boston, to prevent violence. Patriot spies soon got wind of Gage’s plan.