Concord (MA) as the cradle of the American Revolution



On the wooden bridge going across a raging torrent, and its flag unfurled to meet the April wind. Hands clasped tightly farmers rifles. Echo long shots thundered in white light. "Konkordsky anthem" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)


Concord - a small town in North America, Massachusetts, on the bank. Konnenktikut. Concord played a prominent role in the war for independence, in 1774 there was going to Congress pc. Massachusetts, and here the first blood shed in this war, in a collision with the British police. troops April 19, 1775 (TSB)
was founded in 1635, Concord became the first state in Puritan settlement away from the beach. Originally the city was awarded the Indian name of the river, Masketakvid (Musketaquid). The current name of the city means in English "consent agreement." This refers to an agreement on the peaceful coexistence of the settlers with the Indians. Novoposelentsy no Indians were driven from their lands by force, but bought the land. About the price history is silent on the issue.
Almost a detective story
In February 1775 the break with England and an armed clash with each day becoming more and more inevitable. Squads of volunteers have already started military preparations, arranging storage of weapons and conducting training of police units.
They consisted of conventional farmers with an unusual name: Minute Man. This meant that a member of the squad had a minute to change the plow, replacing it on the rifle!
The British were aware of it and decided to disarm stationed near Boston volunteer corps in Concord and Lexington. However, representatives of the Security Committee (Boston) vigilantly monitor the movements of British troops. The British troops went to the Concorde at night. In order to protect the secrecy many unit commanders reported to the operation just before the start of it. However, at that moment, when British troops set out from Boston to the North tower of the church specifically placed there by the Committee security guard filed a prearranged signal, and a messenger of patriots went to report the imminent attack.
Simultaneously, some living in the suburbs of Boston set off, smell a rat in a strange activity seemed to them the British patrols. When the messengers arrived at the location on the road to Concord Lexington, there hit the alarm and raised on combat alert the local police. In Lexington, British troops opened fire on American forces. Eight people were killed and nine wounded. Monument in Lexington. The square where the monument unveiled a husband, a long time looking in the dictionary pronunciation, called the "Palace Square", by analogy with that of the same in St. Petersburg. It was intended Of course, not what is in Lexington, palaces, and the fact that here was heard the first shot of the American Revolution.
An armed clash took place in the g. Concord, where American farmers were able to put to rout heavily armed British soldiers.
Here, at the North Bridge that sounded new shots:
The immediate reaction to the events at Lexington and Concord was the mobilization of new militias, the total population of more than 1,100 people. Small groups of rebels hiding behind houses and fences, in the ravines and gullies. They fired on the British all over the way back from Concord to Lexington. In this battle the Americans used their borrowed tactics from the Indians extended order, opposing the British orders of sedentary sudden and rapid onset in small groups and alone, attacking the enemy in the most unexpected places. In Russia such a tactic commonly referred to as "guerrilla warfare":) The events in Concord and Lexington were an armed uprising against British rule, the beginning of the American War of Independence. Now, no one doubted that Americans are ready to fight at Concord and they showed that they can fight well! not overgrow "traditional path" to the monuments of these glorious days. In every weekday characters, each sculpture - a mass people, students, adults, children ...
Beautifully decorated park, divided into the place of historical events:
American "guerrilla" protects freedom: