To gain perspective and to remember the sacrifice of those who went before us, it is important to take time to reflect on events like Lexington and Concord. April 19th, 2025, marks the 250th anniversary of “The shot heard round the world.”
War Room’s Steve Bannon talked with independent historian Patrick K. O’Donnell about the events surrounding April 19th, 1775.
“They come up on Concord Bridge. They have to cross the Concord Bridge to get to the farmhouses where the arsenals are correct? Or the weapons, correct?” Bannon asked.
“Where the weapons are stored, ya, and what happens next is they come upon the place that they feel that most of the weapons are stored, which is a tavern in Concord. Smith and several of his officers then storm the tavern. The door is locked, they break it down, storm in and then they put a pistol to the owner and ask him where are the cannons hidden?,” O’Donnell explained.
O’Donnell explains that the owner of the tavern led them to where some of the weaponry was after his life was threatened.
“The tavern owner then leads them to four buried cannons, 24-pounders, they unearth them, and then they spike the guns ,and then they start to search the town for any other weapons and supplies,” O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell explained that the British intended to burn the weapons and supplies with a bonfire that got out of control, which then led to efforts to extinguish the fire.
“British soldiers are then taking whatever they can find, which is not much, because Revere and other Patriot leaders had warned them days earlier that these supplies might be raided, so they moved a lot of the stuff into the surrounding fields. They buried it,” O’Donnell said.
“It’s here that the famous ‘shot heard round the world’ takes place. The British tell the militia to disperse,” O’Donnell explained.
“What happens next is that the British regulars fire the first shots. Two shots are fired by British regulars. They open fire and what happened is the Americans stand their ground and what is really remarkable is that these seasoned elite troops begin to break and they start to fall back from the bridge,” O’Donnell continued.
“They get slaughtered on the way back, but right there in front of one of the toughest armies in Europe, the Americans who are basically a group of farmers and mechanics refuse to break at Concord Bridge, right? And actually, break the British ranks?” Bannon asked.
“They break and there is a dispersion from both sides that takes place,” O’Donnell said.
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