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.
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".
