By Hunter and Halie

    Lexington was a battle in Massachusetts that happened because of some angry Americans who refused to pay taxes. The British went to war with them.

    The British had a plan that they would leave Boston in the night. First they would march to Lexington, a village near Concord. At Lexington they would capture the two major troublemakers who were hiding out there - Sam Adams and John Hancock. These two men were the leaders of the Sons of Liberty. Then the troops would march to Concord and destroy the Minutemen's supplies. At midnight, on the 19th of April, the British troops left Boston and crossed the Charles River.  Paul Revere warned the minutemen that the British were coming.  When the British troops arrived in Lexington, the American troops were ready.  No one knows who fired the first shot, but it was called "The Shot Heard Round the World". They called it that because it was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.  Patrick Henry was in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. These battles started the Revolutionary War. They took place in April 19,1775.

Our resources were:

Our Country, Silver Burdett Ginn, 1995 (Our Textbook)

Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, Francis Russell, American Heritage Publishing Co., c. 1963

http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/abs_lex.html