Why was there fighting at Concord’s North Bridge, and at Lexington Common earlier that morning? Britain’s colonies had enjoyed degrees of self-rule, some of them for a century and a half. The ...

Tens of thousands gathered in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, for the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles, which resulted in the deaths of 49 American ...

Thousands of people from all over flocked to Lexington and Concord on Saturday, taking in reenactments of the first fights of the Revolution while reflecting on the lessons of the momentous day 250… ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...