💥Massachusetts reenactors to remember 'shot heard 'round the world' w/ tributes

Massachusetts communities will mark 250 years since the "shot heard 'round the world" with reenactments, parades and other tributes later this month.

Patriots' Day, which marks the history of these events, is observed in Massachusetts on the third Monday of April. This year, that falls on April 21, two days after the actual anniversary of the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Menetomy.

Because of the semiquincentennial this year, most of the reenactments and celebrations are being held on April 19.

On April 19, 1775, Gage sent 800 British soldiers to Concord to seize and destroy a colonial stockpile of supplies. The Sons of Liberty arranged for a signal of lanterns hung in the steeple of Old North Church to communicate the route of the British march.

Paul Revere and William Dawes rode through surrounding towns, further spreading the warning and militia members gathered to intercept the British advance.

The battles at Lexington and Concord are collectively known as “the shot heard ‘round the world,” a phrase traced back to from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 poem, “Concord Hymn.”

Shots were fired on Lexington Green early on the morning of April 19. Eight militiamen and one British soldier were killed. British Regulars and militiamen, including some who marched with Captain Isaac Davis from Acton, also exchanged deadly fire at the North Bridge in Concord that morning.

Another deadly clash that day occurred in the Battle of Menotomy, a village that's now part of Arlington. With 11 men and 2 Redcoats killed, it was the bloodiest fighting of the day.

Two hundred and fifty years after the midnight ride and the battles that started the Revolutionary War, reenactors are planning to recreate those events with their own midnight ride, a reenactment of the battle of Lexington Green, a salute at the Old North Bridge, a wreath laying at Old Hill Burying Ground, parades and other events.

SOURCE: https://old.bitchute.com/video/LZkWlvG9p1pH/