250th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

What Proclamation 2025-07061 says

Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 76 (Tuesday, April 22, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 22, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 16991-16992] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-07061] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 76 / Tuesday, April 22, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 16991]] Proclamation 10919 of April 17, 2025 250th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Two and a half centuries ago, a small band of minutemen answered the call of freedom in the legendary Battles of Lexington and Concord, an epic tale of American strength and the first major armed conflict of the Revolutionary War. We honor the memories, remember the sacrifices, and summon the courage of every hero of liberty who gallantly shed his blood for the cause of independence on April 19, 1775. After years of intensifying frictions and escalating hostility between the British Crown and the American Colonies, all avenues to peace and diplomacy had been exhausted, and it became clear to the patriots that war was inevitable. Following the Boston Massacre, the oppressive Intolerable Acts, and the lasting grievance of taxation without representation, the colonists began organizing militias as a final recourse in defense...

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