Early one April morning in 1775, 50 ragged "minutemen" faced 1,000 red-coated British soldiers across the bridge at Lexington--a shot was fired. "The shot heard round the world".
The "Minute Man" statue at Concord, is pictured on the five-cent stamp in tribute to those colonists who were the first Americans to die in battle in the defense of freedom.
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