April 19 - Today in History "embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world."

[Recusant]

Today in History - April 19

Lexington and Concord | Yankee Doodle

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April 19, 1775 - Minute Man National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

On April 19, 1775, British regulars marched from the City of Boston, MA on a mission to secure and destroy colonial military supplies gathered in Concord, MA. After brief skirmishes on the Lexington green and at Concord's North Bridge the gathering colonial militia engaged the British column in...

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[HayesGreener]

The British came to take the Americans' guns.

 

[KI4WTF]

And my wife was born. Well....not in 1775.

 

[Recusant]

The British came to take the Americans' guns.

Yep, the more things change the more they remain the same! Just a different gov't now, but still just ordinary folks standing their ground.

 

[jmcd]

The British came to take the Americans' guns.

Apparently not that much has changed here.

 

[nmedge]

Being brought up in that area I do miss the real "patriots day". Not much colonial stuff happing in New Mexico