Tea Party USA - Modern Day Paul Reveres - Growing by the day!
As always, the leftys never let the truth get in the way of a good lie.
This is an good read about the battles of Lexington and Concord. Being an old fart, found this interesting, even some old men as a group did their thing that April 19th day in 1775.
“After Percy had left the city, Gage directed two ammunition wagons guarded by one officer and thirteen men to follow. This convoy was intercepted by a small party of older, former militiamen, still on the “alarm list” who could not join their militia companies because they were well over 60. These men rose up in ambush and demanded the surrender of the wagons, but the regulars ignored them and drove their horses on. The old men opened fire, shot the lead horses, killed two sergeants, and wounded the officer. The survivors ran, and six of them threw their weapons into a pond before they surrendered.”
(snip) “After 1860, several generations of schoolchildren memorized Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Paul Revere’s Ride. Historically it is inaccurate (Despite what the poem says, Paul Revere never made it to Concord, for example), but it captures the idea that an individual can change the course of history.”
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battledetail.aspx?battle=1
Don't mess with old men. They'll just kill you.
Thanks for the history lesson. There is so much of this type of story that never made it into a book or past one or two succeeding generations. More unsung American patriots.
Never mess with an old fart who is too old to fight, he is likely to kill you.