Posted on 04/08/2025 7:41:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded
The 250th Anniversary of "The Shot Heard 'round The World" is upon us. Any plans you have to celebrate The Battle of Lexington and Concord? This is a bucket list item for me and I plan to be there, celebrating the many kinfolk who took part that day.
There were many precusror events to the American Revolution but this is the event where the die was cast. If July 4, 1776 was the birth of our nation, this was the conception.
Thanks for that link. Excellent presentation.
Below is a link and an excerpt about the “Powder Alarm” that happened about 6 months prior to Concord & Lexington, and one of the things to set the stage.
https://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html
Excerpt:
Before dawn on September 1, 1774, 260 of Gage’s Redcoats sailed up the Mystic River and seized hundreds of barrels of powder from the Charlestown powder house.
The “Powder Alarm,” as it became known, was a serious provocation. By the end of the day, 20,000 militiamen had mobilized and started marching towards Boston. In Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, rumors quickly spread that the Powder Alarm had actually involved fighting in the streets of Boston. More accurate reports reached the militia companies before that militia reached Boston, and so the war did not begin in September. The message, though, was unmistakable: If the British used violence to seize arms or powder, the Americans would treat that violent seizure as an act of war, and would fight. And that is exactly what happened several months later, on April 19, 1775.
Five days after the Powder Alarm, on September 6, the militia of the towns of Worcester County assembled on the Worcester Common. Backed by the formidable array, the Worcester Convention took over the reins of government, and ordered the resignations of all militia officers, who had received their commissions from the Royal Governor. The officers promptly resigned and then received new commissions from the Worcester Convention.
That same day, the people of Suffolk County (which includes Boston) assembled and adopted the Suffolk Resolves. The 19-point Resolves complained about the Powder Alarm, and then took control of the local militia away from the Royal Governor (by replacing the Governor’s appointed officers with officers elected by the militia) and resolved to engage in group practice with arms at least weekly.
The First Continental Congress, which had just assembled in Philadelphia, unanimously endorsed the Suffolk Resolves and urged all the other colonies to send supplies to help the Bostonians.
I used to have to go to staff meetings in Arlington, so I drove by these two locations every week. Very nice lplaces. There is no way I would try to get through the traffic to get there next week. It’s a holiday in MA and school vacation week. It’s gonna be nuts!
Have fun. I will catch it on the news. LOL
I visited Lexington and Concord in 2019. It was a good trip.
Damn. Have fun boys.
Stan Freberg Presents the United States of American, Volume 1
https://www.garynorth.com/public/1380.cfm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOOQfGWt8Hc- - - -
Same 1960s era:
Vaughn Meeder's The First Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUU1Op9ouBQCamp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh) (Allan Sherman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVdgcxDXjoPeter and the Commissar (Allan Sherman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tnOWAillk
PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Mr. Chiang Kai Shek?
CHIANG KAI-SHEK: A Club Sandwich would be fine. thank you so much.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Would you like it with a little mayo?
CHIANG KAI-SHEK: Please! Not to mention that name!
Then Kennedy was assassinated. And that was pretty much it for him.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY: I see. Mr. Rusk, what do you think?
RUSK: Well, Sir, I do not go along with Mr. Nixon. The residual benefits are beside the point. It's a dangerous move.
JOHNSON: I'd like to say something if I might!
PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Must you, Lyndon?
If this was comedy back then, I guess it is no wonder LBJ had him shot. (Only kidding. Kind of.)
You know perfectly well that is complete nonsense because in fact:
And, yet again:
If anything, our Founders seceded to abolish slavery.
You know perfectly well that is complete nonsense because in fact:
Well what particular fact did I get wrong? Were they *NOT* slave owning states? My recollection is that they were. Did they not secede from a Union? (United Kingdom) It seems that they did. Did they *NOT* form a Confederacy? (Articles of Confederation)
Thanks for the ping. Continue your great job.
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