lexington and concord

By frutbrut1414

  • 1) Joseph Warren learns British going to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts

  • 2) Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, William Dawes sent to warn

  • 3) Revere arrested, Dawes thrown from horse, Prescott only one to make it

  • Period: to

    Battle of lexington and concord

  • 4) British send 700 soldiers by foot 18 miles

  • 5) Go to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams

  • 6) Run into 77 colonists outside Lexington and Concord

  • 8) shots fired kill 8 colonist wound several others and only 1 British soldier wounded

  • 9) British search Lexington and Concord find nothing

  • 10) while searching 500 more colonists show up

  • 11) Attack British all the way back to Boston

  • 12) 49 colonists killed, 39 wounded, 5 missing

  • 13) 73 British killed, 174 wounded, 26 missing

  • 7) Shot heard round the world starts the war