The statue depicts a minuteman stepping away from his plow to join the patriot forces at the Battle of Concord, at the start of the American Revolutionary War. The young man has an overcoat thrown over his plow, and has a musket in his hand.

At Minute Man National Historical Park the opening battle of the Revolution is brought to life as visitors explore the battlefields and structures associated with April 19, 1775, and witness the American revolutionary spirit through the writings of the Concord authors.

2022年7月8日 · Unveiled for the Centennial celebration of the battle on April 19, 1875, The Minute Man statue, by sculptor Daniel Chester French, is an American icon and has stood guard over this hallowed ground ever since. It is set near the spot where the first colonial militia men were killed in Concord on that fateful day in 1775.

It was January 12, 1775, when the original Concord Minute Men signed the muster rolls thus organizing one of the most famous citizen militia units in American history. They led the march to Concord’s North Bridge on April 19, 1775, provided the first forcible resistance to the British in the American Revolution, and forever recorded their ...

2024年6月15日 · The Concord Minute Men, established on December 10, 1962, in advance of the bicentennial, is the quintessential colonial unit here in Concord. At its peak in 1976, it boasted 253 men (and only men were admitted).

On April 19th, 1775 almost 4,000 men from communities across Massachusetts left behind their families to respond to the alarm and participate in the fight against the British Regulars. The Minute Man Soldier Search includes the names of militiamen, companies, and towns that participated in the opening battles of the Revolution on April 19, 1775.

Minute Man National Historical Park commemorates the opening battle in the American Revolutionary War. It also includes the Wayside, home in turn to three noted American authors.

Minute Man National Historical Park in Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, Massachusetts, preserves and interprets the sites, structures, and landscapes that became the field of battle during the first armed conflict of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775.

2024年3月28日 · Bedford, Massachusetts was one of the towns that mobilized its militia forces in response to the Lexington Alarm. On April 19, the Bedford Minutemen marched to Concord, where they engaged with British forces at the Old North Bridge.

2017年8月14日 · The first test of the minutemen was at the Battle of Concord and the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, during which hundreds of minutemen battled British troops on the Lexington Green and at the Old North Bridge in Concord.