Battle of Concord

Illustration depicting the 'retreat of the British from Concord,' The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. Concord, Massachusetts, USA, 19 April 1775. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).