For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

From the bravery of the Massachusetts minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, shots fired in Lexington and Concord set off the Revolutionary War. A new nation, ...

Massachusetts was the site of various battles during the Revolutionary War ... these battles, British troops marched through Lexington and Concord in an attempt to seize weapons from the colonists.