Memorial statue of Captain John Parker at Lexington Battle Green site of the beginning of the American Revolution

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Captain John Parker issued the famous order "don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here" to his Lexington militia men as the British army approached the green where the first battle of the American War of Independence would occur on April 19, 1775.

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