Battles of Lexington and Concord
battle · 1775 AD
Battles of Lexington and Concord, a battle recorded 1775 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- 19 April 1775 AD
- War
- American Revolutionary War
- Side 1
- American colonial militias — led by John Parker, James Barrett
- Side 2
- United Kingdom — led by Francis Smith
- Result
- American victory; the start of the war
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1775 AD | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)