Lexington, Massachusetts – Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, immediately before dawn on Saturday to watch the legislation of how the American revolution began 250 years ago, with a fiery shot and a path of colonial taste.
Starting with the anniversary of Saturday of Lexington and Konkord’s battles, the country will look at the war of independence and ask where its legacy stands today. After dawn at Lexington Battle Green, Militiamen, musk at hand, has a much larger group of British regular. The battle ended with eight Americans killed and wounded 10 – the dead deployed on the ground when the British came out.
The regulations will go to Concorde, but not in front of the knight. One knights revitalized this trip on Saturday, followed by a procession across the city and a ceremony in the bridge.
Today provides an opportunity to think about this basic moment in history, but also think about what this battle means today. The organizers estimated that more than 100,000 events came out in the two cities on Saturday.
British publications shoot the colonial militias in New England during the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution on Saturday, April 19, 2025.
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
“It is really very important,” said Richard Huil, who photographed Lexington Menter, a man of Lexingon Menters Samuel Ted in the battle.
“This is one of the most sacred pieces in the country, if not the world, because of what it represents,” he said. “To represent what happened on that day, and how the small city of Lexington was a vortex of many.”
Among those watching Lexington’s legislation, Brandon Mas, Senior Lieutenant with the Army reserves whose ancestors were Moses Stone in the Lexington militia.
He said that watching the legislation was “somewhat emotional.”
“I took the choice as I did it and made my brother, and my son in the army too,” said Mass. “… he did not know that we would celebrate it today. He didn’t know that he was participating in the birth of the nation. He only knew his friends and family in danger.”
The 250th anniversary comes with President Donald Trump, scientists and others divided into whether a party will be obtained throughout the year until July 4, 2026, and he called Trump, or balances any celebrations with questions about women, slave people and indigenous people and what their stories reveal.
What happened in Lexington and Konkord?
Historians can confidently tell us that hundreds of British forces walked from Boston early in the morning from April 19, 1775, and collected about 14 miles (23 km) northwest, in the green city of Lexington.
Witnesses state that some British officers shouted, “Throwing your arms, O badgers, rebels!” I heard a shot in the midst of chaos, followed by a “scattered fire” of the British. The battle turned to fierce to the point that the area tied from the combustion powder. By the end of the day, the fighting moved to about 7 miles (11 km) west to Concord, and about 250 British colonies and 95 colonies were killed or injured.
But no one knows who shot first, or why. The revolution itself was at the beginning the least revolution of demand for better conditions.
Woody Holton, a professor of early American history at the University of South Carolina, said that most scientists agree that the rebels in April 1775 are not looking to leave the empire, but to reform their relationship with King George III and return to the days before the stamps law, tea law and other conflicts in the previous decade.
“They just wanted the colonists to return to 1763,” he said.
“The exactly volatile opinion of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adam
But at the time, Chef added, “It does not seem possible to be the mother country and its colony has already reached the strikes.”
Battle of ages
The rebels already believed that their case was greater than the dispute between people and rulers. A long time before turning in 1776 – before declaring independence or Thomas Payne boasted that “we can help the world again” – they throw themselves in a drama throughout the ages.
The so -called Suffolk solution in 1774, which was drafted by the civil leaders in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, prayed for a life “not restricted to power, and their disturbance in murderers,” a battle that determines “the fate of this new world, and the inherited millions.”
The revolution was a continuous story of surprise and improvisation. Military historian Rick Atkinson, whose book “The Fate of Today” is the second of its planned trilogy in the war, called Lexington and Konkord “a clear victory for the host team”, if the British do not expect such sympathetic resistance from the colonial militia.
The British, who were less than those whom King George considered “a deluded and unhappy crowd”, would be repeated again when the rebels fired immediately and conveyed a narration blame the royal forces.
“Once the shots were launched in Lexington, Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren made all their ability to collect data from witnesses and circulate them quickly; it was necessary to understand the colonies and the world who opened fire first.” “Adams was convinced that Lexingon’s skirmishes would be” famous in the history of this country. “He brought himself out to explain who was the aggressors.”
A country is still in progress
None of the two sides imagined a war that lasted eight years, or had confidence in any type of country from which he would be born. The founders united in their search for autonomy, but they differed on how to actually judge, and whether the autonomy may continue.
The Americans have never stopped discussing the balance of power, the rules of discrimination or the extent of the extension of the extension on a large scale, “all men are created equally.”
This discussion was largely presented on Saturday-although it is mostly margin and with anti-Trump demonstrators, the number of tourists is more than tourists, local population, and history amateurs. Many demonstrators carried signs inspired by the American revolution including, “resistance like 1775”, and even one brought a doll that includes Trump orange.
“It is a very appropriate place and history to clarify that, as Americans, we want to take a position against what we think is stumbling tyranny,” Glen Stark, retired professor of physics who was carrying a “no kings” and watching the ceremony in North Bridge.
Massachusetts Governor, Mora Haley, who spoke at the North Bridge party, used this event to remind the crowd that many of the ideals he fought during the revolutionary war were at risk again.
She said: “We see things that would be familiar to our revolutionary ancestors – the critics of the critics, and the people disappeared from our streets, are undoubtedly demanding annoyance.” “Legal procedures are the founding right. If it can be ignored to anyone, it can be lost to everyone.”
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