The Battle of Lexington was the most important battle of the revolutionary war. The British army had been sent to Boston as a result of the Boston Tea Party. The redcoats had been there for a couple of years prior to the French and Indian war.
<Tab/>The colonists were storing their ammunition at Concord and in other places in the colony as well. They were also storing cannons, gunpowder, and other military supplies. General Gage was the governor of Boston at the time. He was going to send about seven hundred troops to Concord to get the ammunition so the militia would not be able to use it.
<Tab/>The colonists needed a way to be alert if the British redcoats were coming so they thought up a plan to put one lantern on a church steeple if the British were coming by land and two if by sea. …
