Our First Shot Candle marks the first battle of the Revolutionary War, when British troops marched into the town of Concord and clashed with Patriot militiamen. With its matte-black glass and scents of smoky charcoal, firewood, and warm amber, it seems fitting for the battle that started the American Revolution. The label is decorated with the 1825 painting "A View of the Town of Concord" by Timothy Martin Minot, depicting British troops lined up in the center of Concord. The thick-walled glass tumbler style jar holds 10 ounces of soy wax.

More than a year before Americans declared their independence, the Revolutionary War erupted with the “shot heard round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Convinced that Massachusetts was already in outright rebellion and that the other colonies would soon follow, royal officials decided to act. In an attempt to collapse colonial resistance, 700 British soldiers, known then as “Regulars,” marched on the town of Concord to seize provincial military supplies and possibly arrest rebel leaders. Rather than end the rebellion, the events of April 19, 1775, triggered a war between Great Britain and its American colonies that raged for eight years.