Legend has it that east of Lexington on the morning of April 19, 1775, British Regulars and Royal Marines were tormented by a 55-year-old Hezekiah Wyman. Those his wife told him that he was “too old to fight,” the white-haired gentleman mounted his white horse and rode out ahead of the advancing column, stopped his horse, dismounted, and fired a single shot as they came into the range of his rifle. A redcoat would fall, Wyman would remount and ride ahead, then dismount, reload, and wait for the column to come into range once more.

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