
Leslie’s Retreat: How Salem Defied British Forces Before the Revolution
Leslie’s Retreat: How Salem Defied British Forces Before the Revolution Two months before the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, Salem, Massachusetts witnessed its own dramatic confrontation with British forces. On a tense February morning in 1775, Salem’s citizens stood their ground against British Colonel Alexander Leslie and his troops in what would become known as “Leslie’s Retreat”





