Fighting erupts at Lexington and Concord Some New England towns began to prepare for war against Britain. Minutemen, or civilian soldiers, stored guns and ammunition in secret hid aways. In 1775, the British marched to Concord, Massachusetts, to seize these weapons. Colonists, including Paul Revere, watched the troops march out of Boston. Revere rode ahead of the troops on his horse. He warned people that the British were heading for Concord.
A group of armed minutemen met the British troops as they reached the town of Lexington, Mass. Someone fire a shot. The British soldiers responded by shooting into the crowd of minutemen. Several minutemen were killed, while others were injured. The British suffered only one causality. The Battle of Lexington lasted only 15 minutes.
The British soldiers than marched on to Concord, where they found no weapons. On their trip back to Boston, between 3,000 to 4,000 minutemen ambushed them. The colonial soldiers killed dozens of British troops. The rest of the defeated British troops returned to Boston that night.

How did the outcomes at Lexington and Concord differ?