Word: concorde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British. A few were captured; others didn't return. Just before dawn, with the royal forces only minutes away, a young Minuteman wheeled his horse into the Tavern yard screaming his report. The Minutemen assembled in two long, thin lines on the Common, neither blocking the road to Concord, nor backing down, in a symbolic stance by an outnumbered and outgunned militia...
...exchange lasted only a few minutes. The British fired a victory salute, let loose a few huzzahs, and set off for Concord. From behind walls and trees, the Minutemen emerged to pick up the bodies of eight dead and carry them to the town's burying ground...
They were buried in a makeshift grave, covered with pine boughs to prevent the British from finding and desecrating it, should they return. Then the Minutemen headed toward Concord to fight the British again. The American Revolution had begun, 205 years ago yesterday...
...that started so well for the British ended catastrophically. Rebuffed in their one military encounter at Concord, they reassembled for the march back to Boston. But by now, thanks to Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott and the dozens of other outriders who had spent the day rousing area patriots, thousands of colonials hid in the woods and behind the fences, lining the route back to the city. They routed the British, beginning at Meriam's Corner between Lexington and Concord, and gunned down the straight-shouldered regulars like the ducks in a penny arcade sitting ducks, thus proving the British...
Patriots Day was celebrated across the Bay State yesterday, in Lexington and Concord with parades and on Cambridge Common, where Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 delivered a traditional address. It was in Cambridge that Revere borrowed the horse that carried him to Lexington. In Cambridge Common, Minuteman and militia from around the Commonwealth camped, sealing the British in Boston. Gen. George Washington arrived to take command of the American troops--and within a year the starved-out British evacuated Boston...