Yale University
On April 19, 1775, British redcoats clashed with colonial militias and minutemen in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, the first military conflict of the American Revolution. Two days later, news of the hostilities reached New Haven.
As in towns and villages throughout the colonies, the news jolted New Haven. Yale College sophomore Ebenezer Fitch recorded the moment in his journal.
"Today tidings of the battle of Lexington, which is the first engagement with the British troops, arrived at New Haven," he wrote. "This filled the country with alarm and rendered it impossible for us to pursue our studies to any profit."
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