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{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = ยุทธการที่เล็กซิงตันและคองคอร์ด
| partof = สงครามปฏิวัติอเมริกา
| image =
| caption = Romanticized 19th-century depiction of Battle of Lexington
| date = 19 เมษายน 1775
| place = [[เมืองมิดเดิลเซ็ก,แมสซาซูเสซ|เมืองมิดเดิลเซ็ก], แมสซาซูเสซ
| coordinates = Lexington: 42°26′58.7″N 71°13′51.0″W
Concord: 42°28′08.54″N 71°21′02.08″W
| result = ชาวอานาณิคมชนะ; เริ่มต้นสงครามปฏวัติอเมริกา
| combatant2 = บริเตนใหญ่
| combatant1 = แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay
| commander2 = ฟรานซิส สมิธ
จอนห์ พิทแคน
Hugh Percy
| commander1 = แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay จอนห์ ปาร์เกอร์
แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay เจมส์ บาเร็ต
แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay จอนห์ บัตทริก
แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay วิลเลียม เฮ็ล
แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay โจเซฟ วาแรน
แม่แบบ:Country data Province of Massachusetts Bay ไอแซค เดวิด †
| strength2 = Departing Boston 700[1]
Lexington: 400[2]
Concord: 100[3]
End of Battle: 1,500[4]
| strength1 =
Lexington: 77[5]
Concord: 400[6]
End of Battle: 3,960[7]
| casualties2 = 73 killed
174 wounded
53 missing[8]
| casualties1 = 49 killed
39 wounded
5 missing[8]
| campaignbox = แม่แบบ:Campaignbox American Revolutionary War: Boston
}}
นี่คือหน้าทดลองเขียนของ Natrucha หน้าทดลองเขียนเป็นหน้าย่อยของหน้าผู้ใช้ ซึ่งผู้ใช้มีไว้ทดลองเขียนหรือไว้พัฒนาหน้าต่าง ๆ แต่นี่ไม่ใช่หน้าบทความสารานุกรม ทดลองเขียนได้ที่นี่ หน้าทดลองเขียนอื่น ๆ: หน้าทดลองเขียนหลัก |
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9] 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 thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.
In late 1774 the Suffolk Resolves were adopted to resist the enforcement of the alterations made to the Massachusetts colonial government by the British parliament following the Boston Tea Party. An illegal Patriot shadow government known as the Massachusetts Provincial Congress was subsequently formed and called for local militias to begin training for possible hostilities. The rebel government exercised effective control of the colony outside of British-controlled Boston. In response, the British government in February 1775 declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion. About 700 British Army regulars in Boston, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy rebel 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 British expedition.
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 engaged three companies of the King's troops at about an hour before Noon, resulting in casualties on both sides. The outnumbered regulars fell back from the bridge and rejoined the main body of British forces in Concord.
Having completed their search for military supplies, the British forces began their return march to Boston. More militiamen continued to arrive from neighboring towns, and not long after, gunfire erupted again between the two sides and continued throughout the day as the regulars marched back towards Boston. Upon returning to Lexington, Lt. Col. Smith's expedition was rescued by reinforcements under Brigadier General Hugh Percy a future duke (of Northumberland, known as Earl 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his "Concord Hymn", described the first shot fired by the Patriots at the North Bridge as the "shot heard round the world".[10]