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First Battle of the American Revolution

A German broadside depicting the first military clash of the revolutionary war. Its translation is:

The first blood of townsmen, establishing the American Revolution, was spilled at Lexington on the 19th of April, 1775.

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Credits

Library of Congress, An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera.