D-Day for Revolutionary War reenactors is April 19 -- the Massachusetts state holiday known as Patriots Day. Early that morning, minute men and redcoats will clash on the Lexington town green, re-creating the famous events of April 19, 1775.
See a few of the locations visited by the midnight riders, Paul Revere and William Dawes, and the site of the "shot heard 'round the world" on the historic day that began the American Revolution.
A member of the Freemasons, the mechanics union, the Sons of Liberty and other groups, Revere became a nexus in the social networks of the revolution.Â
Both doctors, Joseph Warren and Benjamin Church were closely connected to the events of April 18-19, 1775, and thus to the American Revolution as a whole.Â
On April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren saw the British regulars mobilizing in Boston. By the end of next day, however, no man who had stood on the field of battle had any doubt that the Colonies were at war with Britain.
In the aftermath of April 19, 1775, would be immortalized as a mythic American moment, in poems, engravings, songs, and in celebrated phrases like Ralph Waldo Emerson's "the shot heard round the world."
