1. So it was at Lexington and Concord.

2. The first armed action took place in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775.

3. By the time the first news of Lexington and Concord arrived, it was the end of May and Parliament had begun its long summer holiday, its members departing London for their country estates.

4. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox.

5. Those men of Lexington and Concord were among our first patriots.

6. Historical texts, most notably Paul Revere's Ride suggest that Mrs. Gage provided Joseph Warren with information regarding General Gage's raid at Lexington and Concord.

7. It's what led a rag - tag militia to face British soldiers at Lexington and Concord.

8. By April 1775, when hostilities broke out between colonial militiamen and British soldiers at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga numbered barely 50 men.