Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Boston

DC Gazette ^ | 07.29.2014 | Ed Schriber Col. USMC (Ret.)

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Thanks dware.

On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended, eight Americans lay dead and at least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded. The British continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered armed resistance from a group of patriots at the town’s North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged, leaving two colonists and three redcoats dead. Afterward, the British retreated back to Boston, skirmishing with colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun. The incident at the North Bridge later was memorialized by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem “Concord Hymn,” whose opening stanza is:

By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.

Emerson penned "Concord Hymn" for the dedication of a battle monument at the site of the North Bridge. At the dedication ceremony on July 4, 1837, a group of townspeople sang the poem’s 16 lines to the tune of a traditional hymn called "Old Hundredth." Emerson, a Boston native born in 1803, spent portions of his childhood in Concord (where his grandfather, a minister, had witnessed the 1775 battle at the North Bridge from his nearby home) and moved there permanently in 1834. He went on to become one of the country’s leading intellectuals and lived in Concord until his death in 1882. [Elizabeth Nix, What was the "shot heard round the world"?

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Bkmk

[dp0622]

Thanks for clearing up that Lede thing :)

[roadcat]

And this, people, is how the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775.

Bill O'Reilly hosted a historical documentary last week on Fox, about the American Revolution starting five years earlier when a 9-year-old rebel boy was shot and killed. Everyone knows of the later shootings in 1775, but the origins of the Revolutionaries banding together started with that boy being shot in a crowd protesting.

[dware]

but the origins of the Revolutionaries banding together started with that boy being shot in a crowd protesting.

And this time around, with the shooting and death of a cowboy as he stepped outside his truck... #rememberlavoy

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My pleasure. ;’)

[longfellow]

Inspiring.

[roadcat]

The O’Reilly doc I watched was Legends & Lies - The Patriots The Rebellion Begins S2E1. The incident of the rebel boy being shot and killed predated the Boston Massacre of 1770 where five American colonists were killed in a protest demonstration by British soldiers. The boy being shot and killed led to a banding together of colonists to take action, happened some months earlier than the massacre. Interesting history.

[Paisan]

his grandfather, a minister, had witnessed the 1775 battle at the North Bridge from his nearby home

The Old Manse, still extant and a favorite haunt of mine in my younger years. I used to date a girl who, dressed in period costume, would lead tours of the old building. You can still see, in an upper window, where the ministers wife had scratched testimony to the skirmish, with her diamond wedding ring.

Concord Mass - a favorite place for any historian. Still, mostly the same as it was in 1775.

[SunkenCiv]

Neat!

[Paisan]

Neat!

Of course, in Mass., the proper response would be, “wicked pissah”

I might add, also, that the current denizens of Lexington & Concord, are all flaming liberals.

Sad. Very sad...

[trisham]

Excellent.

[GRRRRR]

Oh yeah...USA USA!!

[SunkenCiv]

Libs, including limo libs, like not having to think about things -- just regurgitate the talking points. After PBS and NPR are both defunded, libs everywhere in the US will be unable to speak.

[Paisan]

After PBS and NPR are both defunded...

I must admit, to my shame, that I have my car radio tuned to NPR.

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No commercials, & we must ALL know, what the enemy is up to, at ALL times...

[sergeantdave]

“Some will refuse, and they will be dealt with, harshly. Most will follow orders.”

Tell everyone here how you know this with such certainty.

[Cboldt]

I don't know it with certainty, but I believe it, and nothing you tell me will persuade me otherwise. Troops will do what they are told. "Cop mentality." see disarming civilians after Katrina, Kent State, etc. The environment will be hostile, and everybody acts differently then.

Historically, Whiskey Rebellion.

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Bkmk

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:’)