Today is 16 April 2025. We are only days away from what would be the opening shots of the American Revolution, 250 years ago this year.
Yes, I’ve been banging on about this since, well… Basically since I started this newsletter. 250 years ago this, 250 years ago that. I think you have all been getting the idea by this point.
Many of the important anniversaries thus far have been smaller events leading up to this point. Some of them are a bit bigger, such as the Boston Massacre, but we haven’t yet seen any real fighting. Protesting? Sure. Britain sending in military might because of the tossing of tea in the harbor, yes. And, yes, there was that incident with the Gaspee in Rhode Island. (Major incident, by the way. This gets talked about a lot in Rhode Island public schools and in almost every single Revolutionary War text, but isn’t taught as much outside of that. I hadn’t even heard of the Gaspee until I took a university seminar on Vermont history and there was a guy from Rhode Island in the seminar with me.)
The 250th commemoration of Lexington and Concord is THIS WEEKEND. For an overview of events you can attend in Massachusetts, you can visit Rev250 or the Minute Man National Historical Park website. The biggest event will be the Battle Road Tactical Demonstration, which will be at Minute Man NHP on Saturday, 19 April 2025. And as they say in this video, please take public transit if you’re planning to go!
So here we go: An Overview of Events 18 April 1775 – 19 April 1775.
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