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So Lexington opened the fighting with a charge ordered by a British officer who then immediately rode off in the other direction. Later, Concord was important because various militia units counterattacked the looting Regulars. This continued all the way back to the environs of Boston. If a relief column had not shown up the Regulars would not have made it back (they were almost out of ammunition when they met the relief column in Lexington).