AP: Archeologists uncover secrets of Revolutionary War site

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FILE - In this April 15, 2000, file photo, Revolutionary War re-enactors portraying colonial militiamen fire on British regular soldiers in the Battle of Lexington on the Lexington Green in Lexington, Mass. Eight were killed and 10 wounded from Capt. John Parker's 77-member Lexington militia in the original battle fought there on April 19, 1775. Using ground penetrating radar and sophisticated metal detection, archeologists have found used and unused musket balls at the site of a subsequent battle the militia fought that day known as Parker’s Revenge. The project is expected to continue into November or December 2015, and may also restore the 44-acre battleground, which lies within the Minute Man National Historical Site, to a wooded landscape that more closely resembles how the site looked in 1775. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)


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BOSTON (AP) — Archeologists using 21st-century technology are mapping out the exact spots British soldiers and Colonial militiamen were standing as they fired at each other during a pivotal skirmish on the first day of the American Revolution.

Parker's Revenge, as the fight is known, occurred on April 19, 1775, after the battles of Lexington and Concord as the redcoats retreated to Boston.

Capt. John Parker, commander of the 77-member Lexington militia, had met the 700-strong British column on the green at 5:30 a.m. Eight of his men were killed and 10 wounded.

Undaunted, Parker planned his revenge, positioning his remaining men on a rocky hillside on the border of Lexington and Lincoln and awaiting the return of the British early in the afternoon.

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