The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
<span>1PRELIMINARY RESEARCH
</span><span>2FORMULATING A WORKING HYPOTHESIS
</span><span>3RESEARCH FOR EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT OR REJECT THE WORKING HYPOTHESIS
</span>4<span>FORMULATING A THESIS STATEMENT
5</span><span>RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST- WRITING THE HISTORICAL ESSAY</span>