John Parker, who commanded the militiamen ... Parker would not live to see the end of the Revolution and the birth of the American nation he had a hand in creating. At the young age of 45, he ...

Captain John Parker’s Lexington militia company ... Courtesy of the Museum of the American Revolution. This fowling piece (middle) carried by Robert Chaffin of Acton was either built to accept ...

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, in which 49 American militia members were ... without they be first," was the order Captain John Parker told his men as the Army approached.

The Army Reserve traces its lineage to the citizen-Soldiers of the American Revolution through men such as Capt. John Parker, whose militia stepped forward in times of crisis. Formally recognized ...

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... the patriots and British redcoats first exchanged fire? Larissa Sasgen, John Nichols and William Rose, members of the Lexington ...

“What do we mean by the American Revolution?” he wondered ... a flawed but still-united people. As Captain John Parker said at Lexington Green in April 1775: “Let it begin here.” ...

But J. L. Bell, a scholar who specializes in the start of the American Revolution and authored “The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War,” also gives a thumbs ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War,” John Ferling explores ... an acclaimed historian of the American Revolution, demonstrates how shots ...

Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world” that began the American Revolution ... there is much to celebrate. John A. Ragosta, Ph.D., was formerly a ...