The actions of future Army National Guard units at North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775, shaped the course of ...

The American militias established in the colony of Massachusetts were based on an English militia model. Every man over age sixteen was required to join and bring his own weapon to the mandatory ...

In the hours after Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride April 18 and 19, 1775, the word rapidly spread throughout the colony ...

(AP) — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts ... hadn’t expected such impassioned resistance from the colony’s militia. The British, ever underestimating those whom King ...