1. Shot Heard ‘round the World

2. Minutemen

3. Minutemen
Volunteer members of Mass.militia who kept their muskets at hand and were prepared to fight at a moment’s notice

4. General Thomas Gage

5. General Thomas Gage British commander
Scouted out towns near Boston looking for arms
Found arms in Concord 18 miles from Boston

6. April 18, 1775
700 British troops quietly leave Boston to seize the colonial arms.
Who do you think was watching?

7. Paul Revere’s Famous Ride
Two lamps hung by Old North Church

8. Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr
Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott set off to warn the minutemen and Sons of Liberty members that the British “regulars” were coming.

11. Who did he have to warn? I’ll give you hints:
One was my favorite member of the Sons of Liberty
The other had a really big signature…
Did you guess?

12. If you guessed Sam Adams and John Hancock……
You were correct!!! Give yourself a Pat on the back!!

13. On way to Concord…
The three men get arrested by the British… eventually they get released but without their horses.

14. In Lexington….
Captain John Parker tells the 70 minutemen gathered to go home since they were outnumbered.…..
Outnumbered they begin to go home….
SUDDENLY……….

16. You were just witness to the shot heard ‘round the world!
April 19, Shot heard round the World…No one knows who fired it but….

17. In the struggle that followed….8 colonists lay dead

19. British Move on to Concord
They meet 300 minutemen on a bridge outside of Concord.
British retreat but get ambushed.
73 British men killed, 200 wounded or missing.