1-149-636 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, 19 April 1775, (1872). The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (Arlington), and Cambridge. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. Engraving from John Gilmary Shea, A Child's History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, New York, 1872.