1775 April 18 In the evening, it was dark, and two fast horses sped away from Boston to Concord. Two people are riding on horseback, one is Paul Revere and the other is William Davies. They are all militia fighters of the sons of liberty Association, a secret organization fighting for national liberation in North America. They found out in Boston that the governor and

/kloc-on the morning of 0/9, at dawn, 800 British light infantry in ochre uniforms were in the position of major commander.

After the victory of the War of Independence, people regarded Lexington as a symbol of American freedom and independence and praised it as "the cradle of American freedom". The American people also built the American Revolutionary War Memorial in the center of Lexington town. On the pedestal is a bronze statue of a militia with a rifle and a straw hat. The inscription reads: "Hold your ground. Don't shoot before the enemy shoots; However, if the enemy insists on imposing war on us, let the war start here! "