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Up next, another story from our series about us, the story of America.

Here to tell it is Hillsdale College Professor Bill McLeigh,

author of the fantastic book, Land of Hope,

and the Young Vaders edition as well.

With new taxes came new divisions in the colonies.

30% of people favored revolt,

30 favored remaining loyal to Britain, and the rest,

while they were hiding under the table. But things were about to heat up even more. Let's get

into this story. Take it away, Bill. The first actual combat in the war comes well before the Declaration of Independence

since April of 1775.

General Thomas Gage was instructed to go to a colonial armory in the town of Concord.

So he took a deployment of a few hundred men.

He was met along the way in Lexington by militiamen called Minutemen,

who greeted them with their rifles in hand.

And there was a tense standoff with a lot of name calling.

Shot was fired, shots were fired in the end.

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