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/lˈɛksɪŋtən ənd kˈɑnkˌɔrd/ Listen

Lexington and Concord

noun

The first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775). Synonyms: Concord, Lexington.

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... day of Lexington and Concord, but before the news of that conflict reached Virginia, two of his indentured servants ran away and he published a lengthy advertisement of them in the Virginia Gazette, offering a reward of forty dollars for the return ...

— George Washington: Farmer • Paul Leland Haworth

... mistaken impression that San Francisco's dramatic and musical history had its genesis when miners threw gold nuggets at the feet of Lotta Crabtree. But it has been pointed out by one musical critic that the Franciscan padres were chanting Gregorian measures in the Mission Dolores when the battles of Lexington and Concord were being fought, and that the Indians were intoning hymns and staging miracle-plays for their sun-god in California before the landing of the Pilgrims at ...

— Fascinating San Francisco • Fred Brandt and Andrew Y. Wood

Words linked to "Lexington and Concord" : ma, concord, Old Colony, American War of Independence, American Revolutionary War, pitched battle, War of American Independence, Bay State, American Revolution, Massachusetts