Fired on April 19, 1775, at the Battles of the Lexington and Concord, the blast marked the beginning of the American Revolution (Subscriber Exclusive)
As 1760 dawned in America, most white colonists were proud Britons, relatively content in the arms of empire. They had grown up with an implicit understanding that risk-taking was their heritage. Their grandparents, parents, or even themselves had left behind the known world to settle in a land filled with opportunity an ocean away.
But the great parliamentarian and political thinker Edmund Burke extolled the colonists’ fierce spirit of liberty: “In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole . . . your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force … what they think the only advantage worth living for.
Desertion rose in the British ranks, and Gage was encouraged from London to take some kind of decisive action against the Americans. In mid-April, the orders that reached him were more explicit: “Arrest and imprison the principal actors and abettors of the Provincial Congress whose proceedings appear in every light to be acts of treason and rebellion.”
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