The Response
The Battle Road, where the first activities of the Revolutionary War occurred, is well documented. The towns, regional museums and the Minute Man National Historic Park provide reenactments and materials about local heroes and participants. Yet the story is bigger than the actual Battle Road. Local citizens trudged along local roads, through active farmland and cow pasture to Concord. They crossed fields and trekked through woods, wearing the uniforms of their work as farmers or merchants, and their appearance was indeed one of a “rabble in arms.” Previous wars were exchanges between professionals wearing the colors and appurtenances of a trained army. This was a new kind of war, with a new kind of soldier, and a new kind of Democracy was spawned.
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