On the morning of April 19, 1775, Major John Buttrick of the Concord militia was standing on Punkatasset Hill above his hometown when he saw smoke rising from the village square. The British search party had set fire to a wooden gun carriage, but to the militiamen above town it looked like the regulars had begun burning Concord. Buttrick formed up his men — about four hundred minutemen and militia drawn from Concord and the surrounding towns — and marched them down the road to North Bridge, where roughly ninety British light infantry held the crossing. He had been ordered not to fire unless fired upon. As his column approached, the British opened fire, killing Captain Isaac Davis of Acton and wounding several others. Buttrick shouted "Fire! For God's sake, fire!" The volley that followed killed three British soldiers and wounded several more — the first British troops killed in action in the American Revolution. Ralph Waldo Emerson would later describe it as "the shot heard round the world."

This figure is W. Britain's three-dimensional miniature of Don Troiani's Soldier Study Major John Buttrick, Massachusetts Minuteman, 1775 print — both the print and the figure are available at Breagans. Troiani depicts Buttrick at the moment of advance, in the dark green coat of a Massachusetts militia officer, sash and sword, musket carried at his side. He pairs naturally with the other Don Troiani militiamen Breagans carries — the 1775-81 American Militiaman and the 1775-83 American Militiaman — and with the broader American Revolution & Federal Era collection.

1/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16107. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.