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Today, episode 56, the shot heard round the world.

So last week we finished the battles of Lexington and Concord,

with thousands of angry militiamen chasing the exhausted remnants

of Colonel Smith's column and General Percy's Relief Column back to Charlestown.

As the sun rose on April 20th, 1775, the day after the fighting, General Gage found Boston surrounded by thousands of hostels with more arriving every hour.

As word of the events of April 19th spread,

local militia units traveled from all over New England to participate in the siege.

General Gage found his army heavily outnumbered.

British ships with cannon in the harbor and a well-entrenched artillery at Boston Neck kept the militia

from overrunning the city and capturing the army. But the British were bottled up with nowhere

to go unless they left the city by sea.

For the next year the two parties would remain facing one another

with neither side able to take out the other.

The Siege of Boston had begun. General Artemis Ward, who had

lay sick in bed on April 19th, rode to Cambridge, the command center for the provincial

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