Life as a No-See-Um: Kaleb and Special Guest, Jeremy

Hi, this is Jeremy and Kaleb.
We did lots of things today. We started at the Bunker Hill Monument then we went to the Lexington Green and a graveyard. After that, we went to the Concord visitors center and the Concord Museum. Finally, we went to the North Bridge where the shot heard round the world was fired!

Bunker Hill Monument:
It has 294 spiral steps to the top. It has a great view of Boston. There is a hole in the middle that goes the whole way down to the bottom of the steps, but there is a grate over it... it is scary. The monument is there because there was a battle there. In the battle 1100 British soldiers were lost and about 400 patriot soldiers died. The patriots didn't even win the battle but we still made a monument because of all the casualties we inflicted on the British. We may have won but sadly we ran out of ammo!

Lexington Green:
The Lexington Green is the middle of the town of Lexington. It is where the British troops first encountered Patriot militia on their way to retrieve weapons that were being stockpiled in Concord. Someone got nervous and shot which started a chain reaction. The patriots tried to retreat but 8 of them were killed. One British soldier was wounded and died later in the tavern, we saw his grave. His grave was not near the others.

Concord Visitors Center:
We saw a great movie here and there were huge paintings on the walls. The movie was about the events leading up to the revolutionary war including what happened at Lexington Green.

Concord Museum:
There were over 3,000 artifacts to see there. There were dressers, lanterns, guns, dishes and silverware. There were chambers decorated like different time periods. We got to into the education center and Kiara and Kaleb dressed up like colonial children.

North Bridge:
This is where the shot heard round the world was fired! There were 400 Patriots and 200 Red Coats at first, then 100 of the Red Coats went to a farm to look for stashes of supplies. While they were doing that the Patriots were watching them from on top of the hill. The Patriots saw smoke rising from Concord and thought that the Red Coats were burning the city! This made them rush down the hill and confront the Red Coats on the bridge. (The truth is that the fire was accidentally set when the British were burning supplies they had found, they didn't mean to damage the meeting hall and doctor's house, in fact, they helped put out the fire. ) On the North Bridge the British saw the numbers of Patriot Militia and tried to retreat, they even pulled up boards from the bridge, but the Patriots caught up to them. A battle started on the bridge after a nervous British soldier fired and the Patriot leader said, "fire, for god sakes fire!" This was important because it was the first command given by a Patriot leader to attack and so the Revolutionary War began. 5 people died on that bridge, 2 Patriots and 3 British.