How many militia men were waiting at Lexington to fight the British soldiers?

At the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, approximately 70 militia men, known as the Minutemen, were gathered to confront the British soldiers. They faced a much larger British force, which was on its way to Concord to seize colonial military supplies. The confrontation at Lexington marked the beginning of open conflict in the American Revolutionary War.