A standoff between British soldiers and the colonists of Salem, Massachusetts, on February 26, 1775, is often overlooked in history, yet it almost sparked the American Revolution months before the “shot heard ‘round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Known as Leslie’s Retreat, this incident reveals early tensions between the American colonists
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A standoff between British soldiers and the colonists of Salem, Massachusetts, on February 26, 1775, is often overlooked in history, yet it almost sparked the American Revolution months before the “shot heard ‘round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Known as Leslie’s Retreat, this incident reveals early tensions between the American colonists
