Comparing The Battles Of Lexington And Concord

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on 19 April 1775 in Middlesex County, Providence of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge. The Battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. The British Army also set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. The first gun shot was fired in Lexington. No one really knows who fired the first round if it was an American or British soldier. In the day's fighting, the Massachusetts militia lost 50 killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing. For the British, the long march cost them 73 killed, 173 wounded, and 26 missing. The fighting at Lexington and Concord
The colonists disliked the British military. Both British Naval forces as well as British Marines occupied Massachusetts in order to enforce the Intolerable Acts, which called for regulation of the colonists in response to the Boston Tea Party. The colonists became frustrated with the social restrictions and sanctions imposed on them by the British (Battles of Lexington and Concord, 2009). The Massachusetts Government Act went into effect on May 20, 1774. This legislation was designed to control radical behavior by the colonists, hopefully to prevent another occurrence similar to the Boston Tea Party. This act was designed directly as a punishment for the Tea Party, placing complete control of the government in the Massachusetts colony in the hands of the British. Prior to the conflict, the colonists had been electing their own government officials and developing their own governance, militias, and forms of commerce, this created social