[knarf]

They convinced a weak John Adams politician to give up the Boston armory.

(Boener?)

THAT'S why they felt Concord was a cake walk.

They didn't expect fly-over country after the bluestate Bostonians

(put in present-day cantext and vernacular, of course)

[exit82]

They convinced a weak John Adams politician to give up the Boston armory.

I never trusted that Paul Giamatti guy. /s

Thanks--did not know this tidbit of history.

[Pharmboy]

Excellent comment...and they also figured to grab Sam Adams and John Hitchcock who were laying low out there too.