the first main battle of the American Revolutionary War, in Boston, Massachusetts in 1775. Although the British army won the battle, the American colonists killed and wounded more than 1000 British soldiers, and proved that their army was more powerful and effective than the British expected them to be.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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