LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

Lexington and Concord Battles are conciderated  as the first military war in the American Revolution. They were fought on April 19 of 1775. These Battles created an amred conflict between  Britain and their thirteen Colonies.

By the year of 1775 the British decide not  to ignore what was happening in the Colonies. the English secretary of state Dartmounth ordered to Lt. General Thomas Gage to arest all of the leaders of the lebel uprising. Everything could have been perfect  if that order have been sent one day earlier when the Massachusets Congress sembled. That would make thing easier to arest all these people. Some of these leaders such as Johon Hancock and Samuel Adams  had been advised of what was coming. So they had the time to leave the town.

Thomas Gage decides to destroyed all the weponds that were stored in Concord. Also he decided to maintain their plan as a secret so that in this way the plan could be succesful.

At nine a´clock  General Gage gave the order to all his troops to be ready because they were leaving  Boston. He also ordered Lord Percy to follow six hours later with his troops. At nine therty, their secret plan was already known by everybody even the Colonists. William Dawes and Paul Revere were on their way by land going to alarm John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British troops were coming but at the end only William drawes reached to alarm them.