The Battles of Lexingon & Concord 250 years ago this month made April 19, 1775 a “glorious morning for America.”
Civilian soldiers answered the call to arms and the cries of a new nation and chased the Brits all the way back to Boston.
The remarkable victory was followed by another incredible, but less well known, event that followed in the spring of 1775.
Some 20,000 woodsmen from across New England marched on Boston where they laid siege to their own biggest, the hub of the regional, to strangle out the putrid l”obsterback” monarchists British.
We recount the remarkable tale of a teenage fifer who marched 150 miles alone from Maine after learning of Lexington & Concord, who found courage from a ‘negro’ soldier wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Some 20,000 woodsmen from across New England marched on Boston where they laid siege to their own biggest, the hub of the regional, to strangle out the putrid l”obsterback” monarchists British.
We recount the remarkable tale of a teenage fifer who marched 150 miles alone from Maine after learning of Lexington & Concord, who found courage from a ‘negro’ soldier wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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