Concord

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