Thomas Bliss (Louis’ 4th great-grandfather) served in Capt. Paul Langdon’s Company as a corporal, marching on 20 Apr 1775 in response to the Lexington alarm of 19 Apr 1775, according to the compilation Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War.
- “The British are coming!”—The “Lexington Alarm” was the first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord, advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen, and American volunteers harassed the retreating British troops along the Concord-Lexington Road. Paul Revere, on his famous ride, had first alerted the Americans to the British movement. (http://colonialwarsct.org/1775_lex_alarm.htm)