Front:
AMERICAN REVOLUTION BICENTENNIAL
1975 Series
PIRIT
OF
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76
Lexington & Côncord 1775 by Sandham
ANGTON
APR
19
1975
02173
FIRST DAY OF ISSUE
Commemorating
BATTLES OF LEXINGTON & CONCORD
LEXINGTON, BIRTH OF LIBERTY
Fleetwood
philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA'76 Official First Day Cover
ON. MA
82
Back:
LEXINGTON, BIRTH OF LIBERTY
America's War of Independence began on the village green of
Lexington, Massachusetts, shortly after dawn on Wednesday,
April 19, 1775. Yankee Minutemen under the command of
Captain John Parker stood their ground in the face of a vastly
superior British force. Although both sides had been ordered to
hold their fire, someone ... who, and from which side we do not
know ... fired a musket, and a British private fell wounded. The
British regulars answered the shot heard 'round the world with
repeated volleys, killing 8 American militiamen and wounding
another 10. Having defeated the tiny band of Minutemen, the
British marched on to Concord in quick-step to the cadence of
fife and drum. Their assignment, briefly interrupted by the Battle
of Lexington, was to find and to destroy the cache of colonial
arms known to be hidden there.
