Show A i THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON APRIL 19 1775 After Alter an an engraving by two Continental militiamen who were in the battle I Op 01 that fateful spring morning when the advance guard of British Brit Brit- British ish soldiers sent by General Gage to destroy the stores which the Americans had collected at Concord reached Lexington they found Cound nearly nearly near near- ly armed provincials drawn up in battle array on the village green Disperse ye yc rebels cried Major Pitcairn but the embattled Minute Men stood fast Then a shot was fired whether fired whether by British soldier sol sol- so- so dier tiler or Minute Man is still un un- un- un decided decided and and the fight which opened the Revolution began |