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To: Steamburg
Remember the first revolution started when the King came looking for our cannons not our muskets.

Hmm. I thought the redcoats' target was colonial *gunpowder* (applicable to cannon, musket, rifle, pistol, whatever).

82 posted on 02/22/2017 2:13:05 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

Just for clarity and reference sake, I have included a link to the orders from General Gage to Lieut. Colonel Smith, 10th Regiment ’Foot.

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/orders-from-general-thomas-gage-to-lieut-colonel-smith-10th-regiment-foot/


94 posted on 02/22/2017 3:01:02 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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