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Posted on 04/19/2017 8:13:29 AM PDT by fugazi
1775: An expedition of 700 British regulars under the command of Lt. Col. Frances Smith departs Boston to seize and destroy military stores of the Massachusetts Militia in Concord. At dawn, 70 militia members led by Capt. John Parker meet the British at Lexington, and the two sides briefly skirmish. The Americans withdraw and regroup, attacking the redcoats again at North Bridge with a much larger force, forcing the British to turn back towards Boston.
The American Revolution has begun.
1861: 86 years to the day after the “shot heard round the world,” Massachusetts volunteers headed for Washington, D.C. are attacked by a secessionist mob in Baltimore. Four soldiers and eight rioters die in the opening shots of the American Civil War.
1945: Following the most massive artillery, Naval gunfire and air bombardment of the Pacific War, U.S. soldiers and Marines of the Tenth Army launch a coordinated ground assault against the dug-in Japanese defenders of the infamous Shuri Line on Okinawa...
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This day in history is conveniently forgotten by most major newspapers.
Lexington “Skirmish?”
Eight of the militia are killed and ten wounded at Lexington, managing to wounding only one British regular in the engagement.
Why did Gage send his Light Infantry to Concord? To confiscate the arms of the militia. People choose to forget that Britain in 1775 was the most enlightened, liberal nation on the planet. Yet its leaders thought it necessary to confiscate the people’s arms. Those that argue gun control could never lead to that in modern America need to be reminded of why the British Army went to Concord that April morning.
April 19th used to be designated as Patriots Day.
While not U.S. Military history, this day in 1943 was a day which we should not forget either. We say “Molon Labe” and glorify the 300 Spartans who held off Xerxes, but the Jews in Warsaw did much the same thing when, on April 19, 1943 they answered the Nazi demand for their surrender and relocation to the death camps with sporadic gunfire and Molotov cocktails.
Like the Spartans, they eventually lost but they still live in memory. The future may very well include similar fates for many of us.
the peoples of Massachusetts used to believe in and fight for freedom. Now they laying on their backs and exposing their bellies to their new islamic pedophile masters in the hope that they will be killed last.
The Brits headed to Concord which was
Their objective .only to return to
Lexington to find
A rather Hostile Group.
The Final leg back to Boston,
The Red Coats encountered Militia
Behind every Tree!
Instead of Molotov cocktails, why not call them “mazel tov” cocktails? :)
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