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Was This Little-Known Standoff Between British Soldiers and Colonists the Real Start of the American Revolution?
Seven and a half weeks before the “shot heard ’round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the conventional start of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775, a long-overlooked encounter between the British Army and the townspeople of …