Battle of Lexington & Concord, 250th Anniversary

FreeRepublic ^ | 8 Apr, 2025 | NonValueAdded

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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.

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Please post any events of which you are aware.

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RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list ping

[rlmorel]

I live a few towns over from Concord and hope to get there.

I will say-attitudes have certainly changed in that town since 1775.

It is full of “Concord Indivisible”, “Hate has no Home Here”, “Support LGBTQ Teens”, and “Black Lives Matter” signs. These days, pretty much a Leftist fever swamp.

[Big Red Badger]

April 19 1775
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Concord and Lexington

[reed13k]

and Tomorrow is the 160th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomatox

[DiogenesLamp]

Battle of Lexington & Concord, 250th Anniversary

The American war of Independence was a time when a collection of slave owning states seceded from a Union, Declared Independence, and formed a confederacy.

They appointed a slave owning General from Virginia to lead their armies against the Union, while the Union offered freedom to their slaves.

Those evil people seceded over slavery.

[laplata]

Thanks for that reminder.

[laplata]

Thanks for the ping.
We must always be grateful for what those Patriots sacrificed for and accomplished.

[Inyo-Mono]

I live several thousand miles away from Concord, but I plan on taking my .62 cal smoothbore flintlock (musket) out and firing a few rounds in honor of the 250th anniversary as I had seven ancestors who fought in the Rev War.

[Ezekiel]

Thanks! PRs Midnight Ride is right up my alley!

The morning of April 19, 1775, on the Lexington town common is place-origin for the phrase,

"No King but Jesus"

It's sketchy lore -- purportedly what Rev. Jonas Clarke hollered at the British, but it is what it is:

On April 18, 1775 John Adams and John Hancock were at the home of Rev. Jonas Clarke, a Lexington pastor and militia leader. That same night Paul Revere arrived to warn them of the approaching Redcoats. The next morning British Major Pitcairn shouted to an assembled regiment of Minutemen; “Disperse, ye villains, lay down your arms in the name of George the Sovereign King of England.” The immediate response of Rev. Jonas Clarke or one of his company was: “We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus.”

https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-no-king-but-jesus-myth.html

"The 1737 Lexington Destination":

Full circle, like the radius of the Moon (1737 km):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Stone

Located opposite of (facing) the Ebenezer Hancock House.

These two are the only surviving houses associated with John Hancock, the name synonymous with "signature."

🤔

BTW, the Ebenezer Hancock House has been on the market now for 127 days (listed Dec 2), in case anyone is interested. It's been owned by the same family (Swartz & Swartz) since ~ 1976.

Battle of Lexington & Concord, 250th Anniversary

Funny is that as far as rightful kings are concerned, 4 out of 5 of the anointing oil ingredients are known, but the enduring mystery is what was the 250 shekels of kaneh bosem.

If you consider the "not sold in stores" angle, then the source ingredient for midnight oil ranks right up there.

It's a little something only found along, even or especially just off of the Freedom Trail. After all, if you can't veer off of it, it's not a Freedom Trail.

It's *always* midnight in David's house:

David’s Alarm Clock

The Talmud relates that a lyre hung over David’s bed, and once midnight arrived, the northern wind would come and cause the lyre to play on its own. David would immediately rise from his bed and study Torah until the first rays of dawn.5

What Is the Significance of King David’s Harp?

[Big Red Badger]

June 14 2025
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President Trump’s Parade
on the 250th anniversary
of The U.S. Army.
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MAGA

[sten]

the shot heard around the world was the one that killed Cpt Isaac Davis of the Acton Minutemen.

Acton has been leading the way ever since...

[sten]

An amazing retelling of the events around that fateful day.

April 19th, 1775.

A day that changed the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k6zq_Y_IzA

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Isaac Davis’ Minuteman company was the epitome of “well regulated” and well equipped by him, a master gunsmith. I have no doubt that was on the minds when the Second amendment was written.

Imagine if General Washington had Capt. Davis available to help him organize and train the assembled militia at Cambridge. Instead, he had to wait for Von Steuben to accomplish the same. A fateful shot indeed.

Back in the day as a Boy Scout, we walked the Isaac Davis Trail on one such anniversary. Of course, we were more impressed with the Guardsman marching with us with his ma deuce.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for the ping.

Please include me in your after-action report of the 250th anniversary celebration.

No specific plans, but I will pause here in Maryland to give thanks to God for giving us such brave men on that date — and in times since — who have stepped up to defend our rights and our liberties.

Visited Lexington and Concord and did the Boston Freedom Trail in 2017. Most inspiring, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Thud]

I was an umpire at a 200th anniversary (1976) recreation of the Battles of Lexington and Concord performed by 1000 San Mateo County, California, high school students. All the British umpires were Marine Corps recruiting sergeants and the American umpires were local volunteers. The British re-enactors had uniforms created by their mothers.

It was a wild success and we all had fun. The scarlet caterpillar deploying from march to line formation was gorgeous.

[fella]

It should be as be a Holiday as the 4th of July.

Our media and DemonRATs hate it because it started with Gun Control and attempted Confiscation.

[9YearLurker]

Get old enough to let 50 years slip by you and it’s amazing to think we’re only 5 of those time periods from before our country’s founding.

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

It should be as be a Holiday as the 4th of July.

The irony is that it is a holiday in our now totalitarian state, the state that went apoplectic over tea tax and now has most of its residents on their knees over property, income, and excise taxes.

The black slave, Prince Estabrook, wounded during the Battle of Lexington, is buried not far from where I live.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ezekiel for the ping.