Minute Men Gallery

EVRV2A-00039

Colonists fortifying Breed's Hill the night before the Battle of Bunker Hill, at the outset of the American Revolution, 1775.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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PREV2A-00059

Paul Revere seeing two lights in the Old North Church steeple, riding to Lexington to warn the Minutemen the British were coming, 1775.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Lexington Minutemen reenactors march at Yorktown Battlefield, Virginia.
Digital photograph of a National Park Service event at Yorktown Battlefield on the 225th anniversary of the surrender

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