Meriams Corner, Minute Man National Park
by Brian MacLean
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Meriams Corner, Minute Man National Park
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Brian MacLean
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Miriam's Corner Concord Massachusetts along the Battle Road of the Minute Man National Historic Park.
During the event of April 19, 1775 there had already been minor skirmishes between the colonial militia, or Minute Men, and the British Regulars (Red Coats) at both Lexington Green and the North Bridge in Concord. The Kings men begin their March back to Boston, dazed but not really wounded. Yet.
They reached Meriam's Corner at about half past noon, and at that point, the British came under fire from colonials, both those that they had confronted earlier in the day and others who met them there. The militia had actually begun to wage a war on the British. As the plaque states:
Meriam's Corner - The British troops retreating from the Old North Bridge were here attacked in flank by the men of Concord and neighboring towns and driven under a hot fire to Charlestown."
As historians have stated:
"Lexington Common was a tragedy.
Concord's North Bridge was treason.
Meriam's Corner was war."
-Jim Hollister, National Park Ranger and Historian
-Joel R. Bohy, Historian
This would begin a six hour, sixteen mile retreat back to Charlestown, punctuated by bursts of heavy fighting.
Historical account have quoted British soldiers and Officers alike as condemning the way the Minute Men fought, they didn't have the courage to stand up to us in ranks, but they also would express the admiration for the way these people fought to protect their homes and realize the tactics they needed to use.
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