250 years of Revolution: What has ‘the shot heard round the world’ wrought?

Quin Hillyer: Lexington and Concord still should reverberate

Today is the semiquincentennial of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Will it start 15 months of celebrations, the way the Bicentennial did? It should. It's important.

The shot heard round the world

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.

Beth A. White: Lessons from our founding more relevant than ever

On the evening of April 18, 1775, Boston colonial leaders learned that British Gen. Thomas Gage ordered 1,500 Redcoats to march to Lexington to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams and then seize the ammunition, gunpowder and cannons colonists were…

Kidnapped by pirates and abandoned in Virginia, Peter Francisco was George Washington's 'one-man army'

RICHMOND, Va. When you enter Shockoe Hill Cemetery on Richmonds Northside, the modest monument doesnt command attention, which is surprising considering the transcendent figure buried below. Peter Francisco turned heads 250 years ago. Time hasnt been kind to the most uncommon soldier, who even impressed the Founding Fathers. The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmo…

George Will: The elevating, at times appalling, path to America’s founding

This weekend marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a celebration that will culminate July 4, 2026.…

Commentary: Lexington and Concord at 250 | The Star News Network

by William Anthony Hay   This April marks the 250th anniversary of the famous shots fired at Concord, Massachusetts, that set off the American Revolution. Captain Levi Preston, who fought there, later captured the principles at stake during an interview decades later in 1843. When pressed on various grievances, he replied, “Young man, what we meant in going for those redcoats was this: we had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn…