Lexington

<p>“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end,” said one minuteman after the fight.</p>

<p>This special issue looks at the dramatic and momentous events that occurred 250 years ago this month.</p>

<p>What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Forty years ago a Boston banker suggested that the Battle of Lexington had become a myth, and later evidence proves him right</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> On a new bridge that arched the flood Their toes by April freezes curled, There the embattled committee stood, Beset, it seemed, by half the world.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Sixth in a series of paintings for</span> AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.</span></p>

<p>A team from <em>American Heritage</em> helped document some of the most important maps of the Revolution — still stored in the medieval English castle where scenes from <em>Harry Potter</em> were later filmed.</p>