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The Lexington Alarm at the Nathanael Greene Homestead
April 5 @ 10:00 am - April 6 @ 12:00 pm
The Lexington Alarm will be raised at the Nathanael Greene Homestead on Saturday, April 5, at 10 a.m. The Rhode Island Militia will then prepare to respond to the British attack. The Pawtuxet Rangers and the Kingston Reds will demonstrate their readiness for battle and then march to Massachusetts.
The home of Nathanael Greene, revolutionary hero.
The militia companies will first form, and officers will inspect them. Then they will ready themselves to embark on Massachusetts. Their activities will include company drills, battalion drills, cannon drills and company and battalion inspections.
On Sunday, April 6, units will gather at Shea High School located at 485 East Ave., Pawtucke,t R.I., at 11:00 a.m.
The battalion will then march at 12:00 p.m. to Pawtucket City Hall for a ceremony via East Avenue. It will take a right to Rhodes Street then a left onto Pleasant Street. The battalion will then proceed to take a right onto Jenks Street and then a left onto Roosevelt Avenue.
The battalion will then proceed to the Massachusetts border.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene had asthma, walked with a pronounced limp and belonged to the pacifist Quaker religion.
Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene
None of that stopped him from becoming a national hero doing some of the toughest jobs of the American Revolution. His brainy tactics against the British in the South helped cement the American victory at the Battle of Yorktown.
Nathanael Greene once explained the secret to his success: “We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again,” he wrote.
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