Paul Revere had already ridden through the countryside, warning of the hundreds of redcoats marching west from Boston.
The Minute Men had already confronted the “regulars” at Lexington and suffered grievous losses at their hands.
The colonial militia at Concord had already fired on the king’s ligh…
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