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The kings troops, known as redcoats because of their uniforms, reached Lexington Massachusetts, five miles short of concord, on the cold, windy dawn of april 19.
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The lexington battle started because the colonies did not want to put their gun down. Only one british soldier got injured.
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On june 17, 1775, Gage sent 2,400 british soldiers up the hill.The colonies held their fire until the last minute and then began to mow down the colonists had lost 450 men, while the british had suffered over 1,000 casualties.
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While he was fighting off the colonial troop, burgoyne didn't realize that his fellow british officers were preoccupied with holding philadelphia and weren't coming to meet him.
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More than 2,000 soldiers died, yet the survivors didn't desert.
