This canvas print is based on a photograph from the National Archives' holdings of a painting depicting Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. More than a year before Americans declared their independence, the Revolutionary War erupted with the “shot heard round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Convinced that Massachusetts was already in outright rebellion and that the other colonies would soon follow, royal officials decided to act. The painting was created around 1825 by Timothy Martin Minot.