In this activity, you will write a mock news account of the events at Lexington during the American Revolution. This report should be about 300 words. You can research online or at your school’s library for additional information. Plz help idk what to do. :\

The Battle of Lexington was the first confrontation between Britons and Americans in the American Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775.

During that date, the British forces were on a mission to destroy the arsenal of the patriotic militias in Massachusetts. The Americans, who had learned of this, intercepted the British forces in Lexington and sought to stop their movements without success. Consequently, they retreated to Concord, where patriotic reinforcements defeated the British, who retreated to Boston.

Thus, the Americans won in the first skirmish of the war, demonstrating to the British that their independence and revolutionary intentions were serious.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”