Game on Saturday, April 19, 2025

To celebrate the beginnings of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Jackson Games are presenting "The Retreat from Concord" as our game this Saturday.
 
SATURDAY 04/19/2025 at 10:00 am
 
Location:  Alex's house -- MAP
 
Scale: 25mm
 
Title: Retreat from Concord, April 19, 1775
 
Setting: After the British expedition was stymie at Concord when they couldn't find the Patriots munitions supplies, they began to retire through Lexington back to Boston.  But the Patriot Minute Men  and militia continued to gather and harass the British retreat.  Can the British make it out of the Patriot trap?
 
 
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
    And fired the shot heard round the world. 
 
First stanza of "Concord Hymn" (original title "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775 which sparked the American Revolutionary War. The poem was the origin of the phrase "shot heard round the world".
 
Rules: Commands and Colors, Tricorne
 
Notes: Alex' wife Diane with provide her scrumptious waffles for lunch.  Please RSVP to Alex -- alex-kirk@sbcglobal.net -- so sufficient provisions can be prepared.
 
Gamemasters: Jim Pitts and Jay Stribling