The fateful shots fired at Lexington and Concord on the 19th of April, 1775, raised scores of Americans from obscurity and made their names household words throughout the colonies. Such a man was Nathanael Greene, an anchorsmith by trade and son of a Rhode Island Quaker preacher.
-Theodore Thayer, Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution
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Interesting that the reason for that particular fight was an oppressive unresponsive government trying to take the people's guns (powder, shot) from them as they had done in Williamsburg.
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