Captain John Parker and 77 armed Americans stood on ... was about to ignite the American Revolution and change world history forever. Parker was 45 years old and riddled with tuberculosis.

John Parker, who commanded the militiamen ... Parker would not live to see the end of the Revolution and the birth of the American nation he had a hand in creating. At the young age of 45, he ...

And so it began: Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Battles of Lexington and Concord propelled the British colonies in America into a revolutionary ... Capt. John Parker, commander of the ...

The Army Reserve traces its lineage to the citizen-Soldiers of the American Revolution through men such as Capt. John Parker, whose militia stepped forward in times of crisis. Formally recognized ...