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1860 - Battle At Lexington - J McNevin; J Rogers - Original engraving
1860 - Battle At Lexington - J McNevin; J Rogers - Original engraving
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1860 - Battle At Lexington - Original print
Painted by J. McNevin. Engraved by J. Rogers.
Original engraving from Life of Washington, a Biography Personal, Military and Political by Benson J. Lossing, 1860.
On heavy paper - blank on verso.
Overall size : 10 x 7 inches.
of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775,
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.
About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith,
were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that
were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Through
effective intelligence gathering, Patriot colonials had received word
weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk and had
moved most of them to other locations. They also received details about
British plans on the night before the battle and were able to rapidly
notify the area militias of the enemy movement.
The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The
militia were outnumbered and fell back, and the regulars proceeded on to
Concord, where they searched for the supplies. At the North Bridge in
Concord, approximately 500 militiamen fought and defeated three
companies of the King's troops. The outnumbered regulars fell back from
the minutemen after a pitched battle in open territory.
More militiamen arrived soon thereafter and inflicted heavy damage on
the regulars as they marched back towards Boston. Upon returning to
Lexington, Smith's expedition was rescued by reinforcements under
Brigadier General Hugh Percy. The combined force, now of about 1,700
men, marched back to Boston under heavy fire in a tactical withdrawal
and eventually reached the safety of Charlestown. The accumulated
militias blockaded the narrow land accesses to Charlestown and Boston,
starting the Siege of Boston.
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