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What were the results of fighting at Lexington and Concord?

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The fighting at Lexington and Concord began with British troops marching to Lexington to find stores of colonists' arms and ammunition. Word of the British approach was famously spread by Paul Revere as well as William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. Once the British reached Lexington, they ordered the minutemen, or civilian military unit, to disperse. A shot was fired, and the British fired in return. By the end of the very short skirmish, eight minutemen were dead and ten were wounded. One British soldier was wounded. When the British reached Concord, the minutemen had already dispersed. On the return march to Boston, the British were continually fired upon by the minutemen. Dozens of British troops were killed as the minutemen fired from the cover of trees and stone walls. One result of Lexington and Concord was to increase the sense of inevitability of a war for independence. It was the first outright battle of the war, and marked a new point of violence and hostility between the colonists and British.

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