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Object Record
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Metadata
Object name |
Engraving |
Title |
The Struggle on Concord Bridge |
Artist or maker |
W. Joseph Edwards (active 1843-1867) |
Artist or maker |
Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887) |
Date |
19th century |
Place of origin |
likely New York, New York |
Materials and techniques |
ink on paper |
Physical description |
Engraving of Chappel's The Struggle on Concord Bridge. |
Current exhibit |
Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation |
Gallery label |
Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation (2025): When Patriots learned the British were gathering to leave for Concord, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode out of Boston and set off a chain of alarms. As church bells rang through the night, colonists readied themselves for the coming threat. By dawn, the redcoats arrived in Lexington to find armed rebels in their path. The fight on Lexington Green was the first obstacle the British met that day. The top illustration shows the beginning of this fight as the British advance onto the field. They ultimately forced their way through, killing 8 militia men and injuring 9 or 10 more, and pushed forward to Concord. When British troops reached the North Bridge in Concord, approximately 400 rebels blocked them. The British fired, and for the first time, the colonists fired back. The bottom engraving shows the militia holding strong against the redcoats and shooting back in defense, forcing the British to retreat. The shots fired at the Concord bridge have been memorialized in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Concord Hymn as the "shot heard round the world" that forced the British to retreat. |
Catalogue number |
2019.01.005 |
Collection name |
Drawings and Prints |
Credit line |
Gift of Kent D. and Tina K. Worley, 2019 |
People |
Chappel, Alonzo Edwards, W.J. |