Lexington

is really Lexington Battle Green, Massachusetts

Real place, reimagined

Lexington Battle Green, Massachusetts
Lexington in Assassin's Creed III
In gameReal world

Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons

How close does the game get to the real place?

In the game

The village green where colonial militia face British regulars at dawn on 19 April 1775.

The real place

The first shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired here. The Minuteman statue on the green faces the road the British came along.

Visiting

Lexington is about 20 km from Boston. Each April, on Patriots' Day, the battle is re-enacted on the green at dawn.

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