Posted on 04/19/2022 12:54:35 PM PDT by Perseverando
The sun never set on the British Empire. It was the largest empire in world history.
Out of nearly 200 countries in the world, only 22 were never controlled, invaded or attacked by Britain.
In April of 1775, the British Royal Military Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, sent 800 British Army Regulars, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, on a preemptive raid to seize guns from American patriots at Lexington and Concord.
George Mason of Virginia stated: "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
A warning was sent from Boston's Old North Church that the British were coming, as recounted in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride":
"Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the 18th of April, in 75;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
... He said to his friend, 'If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light ...
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm ...
Through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight."
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Yes indeed. Important post.
I noticed thirty five years ago that the battles of Lexington and Concord are no longer mentioned in the news.
I believe it is because it brings up the 2nd Amendment, which news papers don’t like to mention.
Yet, almost every criminal act on or around April 20 gets mentioned.
Once the 2nd Amendment is eliminated, can the 1st be far behind?
It bears mention (from an RKBA perspective) that Lexington & Concord were NOT the first time the Crown and the colonials had come to blows. The most notorious occurrence, of course, have been five years previous in the Boston Massacre. But before April of ‘75, cooler heads always had prevailed. So how is it that Lexington and Concord were the straws that broke the camel’s back, the incident that so provoked the Colonials that they were willing to take up open rebellion against George III?
Because this one started with an effort by the King of England to strip them of their ability to resist. Which to an 18th Century Englishman, was an unmistakable foretelling of the oppression yet to come.
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flags to April’s breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot hear ‘round the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flags to April’s breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard ‘round the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The right to buy, sell, trade, own, possess and bear arms is the right to be free.
The third Monday of April is reserved as Patriot’s Day in much of Mew England. Attending K-8 school on Cape Cod, this was a date when the construction paper and crayons came out, while our teacher read the story of the battles.
It is fun to be nostalgic about the innocent pride that we were encouraged too take as New Englanders, but I am not delusional. This would NEVER happen today.
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