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.
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| Graves that are being grown upon by a silver maple. |
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| Painting on wall at Visitor Center. |
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| Concord Museum |
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| Muskets, actually used in battle. |
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| Tall Boys, to show your wealth. |
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| Swords and a gun. |
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| Pistols |
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| Paul Revere's pistol, it was very small, like 4 inches.. |
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| Kaleb and Kiara in colonial clothes. |
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| Kaleb in hat #1 |
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| Kaleb in hat #2 |
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| The North Bridge |
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| Bunker Hill Monument |
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| Building at monument. |
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| Warren. |
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| Statue at Lexington Green |
