**_The day the American Revolution started_** This covers the events of April 18-19, 1775, with Paul Revere’s ride and the ensuing Battles of Lexington and Concord. The Lexington engagement took place about an hour before sunrise and was really just a deadly skirmish. The strength of the Lexington militiamen was 77 men whereas the British regulars (the “redcoats”) was about 400 by the time they marched the 12.5 miles from Boston. Eight militiamen died in the clash whereupon the arrogant British troops moved on to Concord, which was 6.5 miles west, to search for stashes of colonial weapons.…