Hello, Of course, the MassMoments e-mail this morning mentions -- April 19, 1775: http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=118 And "The Battle Begins on Lexington Common." ....... In reality, the first blood was shed hours before the Redcoats reached the Old North Bridge. The confrontation on Lexington Common between 77 militiamen and nearly ten times that number of British Regulars ended with the death of eight Lexington men. The Redcoats moved on to Concord. When they got there, they found several thousand farmer-soldiers who had already heard of the bloodshed at Lexington. Betty (near Lowell, MA)