| On the night of April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage ordered his troops to Concord, Massachusetts, to seize a large cache of arms and gunpowder that American colonists had stored there. Boston patriots rode quickly toward Lexington and Concord to warn people about the approaching army. The colonial militias first opposed the British at Lexington. However, the British continued on to Concord. There additional colonial militias forced them to retreat and harassed them all the way back to Boston. |
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