USPS on 19 April 1975 issued a first day cover stamp marking the bicentennial of the Battle of Concord. The postmark cancellation originated in Concord, Massachusetts.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9] The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.
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