This Year Is the 250th Anniversary of the First Battle of the American Revolution, But it Ended in a

Without any shots to hear around the world, a little-known and heated standoff marked the opening of America’s Revolutionary War. On February 26th, 1775, two-hundred and fifty years ago last week, British Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Leslie led a raid into the town of Salem, Massachusetts, to seize what they expected to be cannon stored at […] The post This Year Is the 250th Anniversary of the First Battle of the American Revolution, But it Ended in a Standoff appeared first on Good News Network.

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