The good General ordered 700 of his Redcoats to “Be good Chaps,” and remove the Colonists’ pesky
firearms and ammunition from Lexington. But, the colonists had already removed them to safe keeping.
King George III paid the price on the road back to Concord when his gun confiscstors were met by 3,000 Americans firing on them from the roadside trees. The final price was paid at Yorktown.
Road from Concord, to Boston.
1775 Concord: “The whole country was by this time alarmed. The minute men, volunteers and militia assembled from all quarters and posted themselves amongst trees in houses and behind walls along the road through which the British troops were to pass whilst the militia who had been engaged at the bridge reinforced with others hourly coming in from the country were ready to press upon their rear” - Stedman,pp.117-118=
“The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War,” Stedman, C. 1794, Volume 1,
Many of those snipers were 60-70 year old veterans of the French and Indian War. My great-great great-great grandfather was 70 years old when he fought the British on Bunker Hill.