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Lexington Battle Green

Lexington Battle Green

Historical place in Lexington, MassachusettsWikipedia

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Oct 12, 2026

Dale KarmieHOST
15:05
Either or, we'll go back and forth.
Dale KarmieHOST
15:06
But think about the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Concord.
Dale KarmieHOST
15:12
We didn't even have an army yet.
Dale KarmieHOST
15:14
And you have the British are marching, right? We get word that a British are marching from Boston to Concord to seize weapons, ammunition, supplies, gunpowder, whatever from the people, right? How did they know that was there? Well, they knew it was there through a spy, a British spy, a colonist trader.

Unknown podcast

The Moment the American Revolution Became Inevitable: Unseen Turning Points That Ended Peace Forever

Oct 11 · 1 Mention

speaker_0NARRATOR
111:52
Readiness activated itself.
speaker_0NARRATOR
111:55
At Lexington Green, opposing expectations met.
speaker_0NARRATOR
111:58
British troops advanced.
speaker_0NARRATOR
112:00
Militia formed.

Unknown podcast

The American Revolution Explained: George Washington, the War for Independence, and the Birth of the United States

Oct 9 · 1 Mention

speaker_0UNKNOWN
51:47
Once that shot was fired, the British soldiers, tense and frightened themselves, loosed a volley into the militia and then charged.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
51:55
When the smoke cleared on Lexington Green, eight colonists lay dead and others were wounded.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
52:01
The militia scattered.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
52:03
The British reformed their ranks and marched on toward Concord, believing the morning’s unpleasant business was behind them.
Joe SchofieldHOST
45:46
There's a lot of threatening things out there.
Joe SchofieldHOST
45:48
You know, we had the shot heard around the world at Lexington Green.
Joe SchofieldHOST
45:52
I would hate to have the explosion heard around the world-
Janet PriceGUEST
45:54
Mm
Stephen McDowellHOST
27:41
And so when the British 800 or so soldiers marched into Lexington on the morning of April 19th, 1775, they were met by, oh, about maybe 80 minutemen.
Stephen McDowellHOST
27:54
And right there on Lexington Green, which really was the church lawn of Reverend Jonas Clark, they marched on the church lawn.
Stephen McDowellHOST
28:01
They fired upon the colonists.
Stephen McDowellHOST
28:03
They killed eight and wounded 10.

Unknown podcast

The Story of Independence Day: How the Fourth of July Became America’s Birthday — Colonies, Revolution, and the Declaration of Independence Explained

Oct 4 · 2 Mentions

speaker_0HOST
38:42
The British soldiers fired a volley, then another.
speaker_0HOST
38:45
When the smoke cleared on Lexington Green, eight colonists lay dead and others wounded, and the militia had scattered.
speaker_0HOST
38:53
The first blood of the revolution had been spilled, almost by accident, in a confused moment that no one had planned and no one could undo.
speaker_0HOST
39:02
The British marched on to Concord, but the day did not go as they had imagined.

32 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
71:20
It took two more years of negotiation before the peace was formal.
speaker_0HOST
71:24
In 1783, Britain finally signed a treaty recognizing the independence of the United States.
speaker_0HOST
71:32
Eight years after the first shots on Lexington Green, seven years after the declaration, the war was over, and the thing those delegates had declared in that hot Philadelphia room had, against long odds, come true.
speaker_0HOST
71:48
The promise written on paper in 1776 had been kept, paid for in blood across a continent.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
8:30
John Daly in Lexington, six miles from here, has just reported that the regulars have been sighted, so over to John Daly in Lexington.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
8:42
Here on the Lexington Green in front of the Buckman Tavern, we can see His Majesty's regulars approaching on the Boston Road about 300 yards off.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
8:51
The sun is coming up, and we can see them clearly, a mass of red-coated men, their officers marching on either side of the column and in front of it, too.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
9:01
I can't tell you yet who their commanding officer is, but it's probably Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith because he's led these sorties for General Gage before.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
10:47
Mr. Revere has gone right on by.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
10:49
He and another man are carrying a chest, and it doesn't look as if Paul Revere thinks there's going to be any trouble.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
10:57
He certainly wouldn't be so calm, uh, carrying that chest across Lexington Green if he did.
Doug EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
11:04
Well, the regulars, His Majesty's Redcoats, are almost at the fork in the road now.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:21
Yeah, and I was, I was just there last weekend, in fact.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:24
And, um, I w- my first thought was, well, the Revolutionary War is hallowed ground, you know? Uh, especially places like Lexington, Battle Green, Boston Common.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:33
But then I'm like, no, Gettysburg is no less hallowed ground than any of those, so that can't be it.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:38
I do wonder if it isn't the fact that the Civil War just feels a little bit more, uh, immediate, you know?
Richard EstepGUEST
3:14
I, I actually went with a fellow author and, uh, we followed Paul Revere's ride, starting, um, in the wee small hours of the morning, um, just as Paul Revere did.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:23
We ended up on Lexington Battle Green at sunrise.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:26
So when I'm writing about these things and describing them, it is almost entirely from a personal perspective, you know.
Richard EstepGUEST
3:32
When I write about the contribution of the Queen Mary, the ship that I think possibly more than any other helped us defeat Nazism and win the Second World War, um, it's a ship that I've slept on, investigated, walked decks, crawled below into the engine spaces, you know.

6 MINS LATER

Richard EstepGUEST
9:52
Uh, men died on both sides.
Richard EstepGUEST
9:54
I've, I've walked that road.
Richard EstepGUEST
9:55
The patriots who stood on Boston Battle Green-- I'm s- sorry, uh, I misspoke, on Lexington Battle Green and are buried on Lexington, Lexington Battle Green underneath the memorial to this day.
Richard EstepGUEST
10:06
You know, they, they paid for their opposition to the tyranny of the British with their lives.
William CooperHOST
24:13
Revere had reason to believe that the mission of the patrol was to arrest those two Whig leaders.
William CooperHOST
24:20
He warned the British officers that if they remained in the vicinity of Lexington Green, they also would be in extreme danger, and he hinted that the expedition coming after them could start a war unless it was warned of the trouble that awaited them at Lexington Center.
William CooperHOST
24:36
In fact, trouble was gathering for them in many places that night, but Revere stressed only one place in particular, Lexington, where he had left Hancock and Adams.
William CooperHOST
24:51
It was a remarkable performance.
William CooperHOST
27:19
The anger and frustration of the British regulars were growing dangerously.
William CooperHOST
27:24
Revere remembered that I was often insulted by the officers calling me damned rebel, etc., etc.
William CooperHOST
27:35
They were now about half a mile from Lexington Green.
William CooperHOST
27:38
Suddenly they heard a gunshot.

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