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By Land..."The Dawn of Our Republic" 9am: Depart from school and start our tour to Lexington and Concord with a professional Boston Guide. Lexington and Concord came into sudden glory on April 19, 1775 when their militia companies and minutemen engaged a sizable Force of British regulars in the first battles of what would become the Revolutionary War. The glory has never faded. On our way to Lexington and Concord we will first stop in Cambridge. Cambridge was incorporated by the Mass. Bay Colony in 1630 in a city which encompasses history as the lecture and education. We will get off at Harvard Square and take a stroll through beautiful Harvard Yard. Harvard University is the oldest institution of highest learning in the U.S. as a college in 1633. Continuing on we will pass by the Cambridge common where George Washington took command of the Continental army in 1775. A ride along "Tory Row" will take up past beautiful pre-Revolutionary homes and also the home of H.W. Longfellow, which takes us into Lexington. We will walk over to the Lexington Green where the first encounter between the British and the Americans took place in the early dawn. From Lexington on to Concord past homes to the North Bridge where the 'shot heard round the world' was fired and British soldiers were put to rout by a force of Americans made up chielfy of angry farmers in arms. At the bridge we will see the famous statue of the Minutemen. 4pm: End back at school.
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