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Lexington and Concord   /lˈɛksɪŋtən ənd kˈɑnkˌɔrd/   Listen
Lexington and Concord

noun
1.
The first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775).  Synonyms: Concord, Lexington.






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"Lexington and concord" Quotes from Famous Books



... yeoman's family some eighty or a hundred years ago. On the 19th of April, 1775, being then less than eighteen years of age, the stripling was at the plough, when tidings reached him of the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord. He immediately loosened the ox chain, left the plough in the furrow, took his uncle's gun and equipments, and set forth towards the scene of action. From that day, for more than seven years, he never saw his native place. He enlisted in the army, was present ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes



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