This is the fifth in a series.

Over the past several weeks I have presented the Colonial perspective on the events 250 years ago at Lexington and Concord. The reason for the one-sided version is that in 1775, that is the way the 13 colonies and Great Britain were informed of the events.

At that time the social media of the day was an organization known as the Committee of Correspondence, and as the smoke settled on April 19, only one version of the day’s fighting spread outward from Boston.