The Concord Minuteman by Daniel Chester French (photo by Lee Sanstead)
This statue, one of the great images of American gun ownership, is located in Concord, Massachusetts, where American minutemen retaliated against the redcoats who had moved through Lexington earlier in the morning of April 19, 1775, leaving several American militia men dead and wounded. As the British returned to Boston, American soldiers picked them off guerilla style. French, one of the greatest of American artists, completed the statue in 1874.
This statue should not be confused with the similar minuteman statue in Lexington, by Henry Hudson Kitson, completed in 1900.
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