 Minute
Man Statue
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KAWISHIWI AO-146
2009 REUNION Minute Man National Historical Park Richard
and Barbara Keating "ET2" 55-57 and fellow PLANK OWNER Bill and
Mary Willis "ETSN" 55-57 Tour the Park at Concord MA.
Colonel Barrett's troops,
upon seeing smoke rising from the village square, and seeing only
a few companies directly below them, decided to march back toward the
town from
their vantage point on Punkatasset Hill to a lower, closer flat hilltop
about
300 yards (274 m) from the North Bridge. As the militia
advanced, the
two British companies from the 4th and 10th that held the position near
the
road retreated to the bridge and yielded the hill to Barrett's men.
WIKIPEDIA |
 First
Enemy Death Spot
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The Minute Man statue, commonly called "The Concord Minuteman" was created by Daniel Chester French erected in 1875. Although French had made sketches of some descendants of Isaac Davis, the first colonial killed during the fight at the North Bridge, April 19, 1775 (who was also the commander of the Acton Minute Men, one of the companies that fought there), French later wrote that he meant to depict in his statue the typical minute man of 1775. The first stanza of Emerson's Concord Hymn is inscribed at the base. |
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The reconstructed NORTH BRIDGE
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PLAQUE
on Memorial for 1st ememy
aggressor fallen point Grave
of British Soldier
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