The Battle Road

Company

National Park Service

Price

$11.99

Source

Official Store

...the story is one of patriotism...what these people sacrificed, what they dared, and what they accomplished...was not simply the patriotism of individuals, nor of families, but of communities at large, of the people as a whole... On April 19, 1775, over 4,000 colonial militiamen risked their lives and property to defend their ideals of liberty and engaged against an opposing British force of nearly 1,700 regulars. Just a day earlier, 800 British soldiers left Boston on an attempted covert mission to “seize and destroy all Artillery, Ammunition, Provisions, Tents, Small Arms and all Military…