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美国独立革命爆发
1775年4月19日
藉由这种信号传递，以及口语式的传播方式 (当时还没有发明电话) ，英军抵达的消息很快就可以被散播出去。在莱欣顿革林等地，英军遭遇到77位美国义勇兵的抵抗 (minuteman，之所以如此称呼，是因为这些民兵能够在短时间内立即应战) ；英军在康柯市则因为美军强大的火力，而被迫退回至波士顿。这也正是是美国独立革命的开端。
By using a system of signals and word-of-mouth communication (the telephone hadn't been invented yet), news that the British had arrived spread quickly. At Lexington Green, the British were met by 77 American minutemen (named "minutemen" because they could be ready for battle in a minute), and, at Concord, the British were forced to march back to Boston with the Americans firing on them all the way. This was the beginning of the American Revolution.
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