Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Captain John Parker - April 19, 1775

"Captain Parker, stood up before six hundred or eight hundred to be shot at, their captain saying, Dont fire unless you are fired on; but if they want a war, let it begin here. It began there."

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began as 77 armed minutemen faced down a force of roughly 700 British troops advancing on Lexington. As Americans began drifting off the green, ordered to disperse or be fired upon, "the shot heard round the world," was fired. At the end, one British soldier was injured and 8 Americans lay dead with another 10 injured--and the American Revolution had begun.

https://www.wdel.com/the-shot-heard-round-the-world---april-19-1775/image_de14d0d8-252d-11e7-8df3-bf0b02ed5bc7.html