The battle of Lexington and Concord, the day that caused eight years of fighting and over seventy-thousand deaths, was this day a needed feature in history or could've it been avoided. The time period was rough and america was split three ways, loyalist, patriots, and those who were soon to be tortured until they gave in to patriotism. Britain had recently created new laws and taxes and the colonists were not happy and their corporation with britain soon decreased and their rage inlargened. Even when britain tried to compromise the patriots still refused, and because of this they were the main cause of the war and if it wasn’t for their strict beliefs they war could've been easily avoided. From the Boston Tea party, to the Boston Massacre, the battles of lexington and concord is one …show more content…
The British troops, being some of the only sane people left had to find a way to stop the rebels and protect the colonists. There was no chance of trying to reason with the patriots as they had had their minds set on the fact that if they didn’t get exactly what they wanted when they wanted they would do anything to try and change it, and sense britain refused to get rid of all the taxes and laws as it simply wasn’t fair to them the troops had to think of something else. The troops not wanting to actually hurt anyone decided to try and take the rebels remaining supplies of things they used to attack while all of them were away. And so on the nineteenth they set out, but little did they know the word of their plans had gotten out and the rebels were enraged. While the troops made their over eighteen mile walk the rebels sent groups of armed recruits to block their path. So as expected the troops ran into these recruits and what exactly happened next is still unclear, no one knows exactly who fired first but in the end seven people were dead. The troops marched on but soon decided to retreat back to Boston knowing their