And this one, on a nice summer day:
Posted on 04/19/2024 6:40:52 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
On April 19, 1775, seventy-eight-year-old Captain Samuel Whittemore crouched behind a stone wall next to his home. Whittemore’s old fingers tightly gripped his musket and his pistol. A sword hung from his belt. A phalanx of Redcoats looted homes as they retreated back to Boston. The senior Patriot, who had resisted tyranny and the rule of the Crown for years, planned to fight to the death to defend his home.
When the British troops approached, he blasted away, slaying two Redcoats and wounding or killing a third with his sword. The Redcoats then unleashed their fury on Whittemore, shooting him in the face with a .69 caliber ball, taking off part of his cheekbone, and bayoneting him six times. To finish the job, they bludgeoned him with the butts of their muskets, shouting, “We have killed the old rebel!” Whittemore lay in a pool of his own blood. His hat and clothes “were shot through in many places.”
Miraculously, the old Patriot stubbornly refused to die. Brushing off the flesh wounds, he would live to the ripe old age of ninety-six.
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Years after the Revolution, Captain Levi Preston was asked why he fought in the Battle of Lexington. Was it about the Stamp Act? “I never saw one of those stamps.” Was it about the Tea Tax? “I never drank a drop of that stuff; the boys threw it all overboard.” The interviewer then asked him about several esoteric concepts which Preston dismissed. As he then responded, “Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.”
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When you think about the bolded part, then think about the likes of Maxine Waters or Eric Swalwell as those who deem themselves to be the ones to govern.....yeah, I'm with Levi Preston on this.
And this one, on a nice summer day:
Truer words were never spoken!
I was one of the actual lanterns which was used on that night of April 18th, 1775 to communicate to Patriots in Charlestown whether the British were going to march over the thin strip of land out of Boston, or row across the water to Charlestown to begin their campaign. (The lanterns were a "backup" communication in case Paul Revere and William Hawes were held up or arrested leaving Boston, IIRC)
When I saw that lamp, the feeling of real history flooded into me, as if the act of visualizing the real lamp used made a connection back to that time and validated that it really did happen!
Back in a time when Patriots wanted to build a better country FOR the people. Now we have bloated government awash with over taxed taxpayer money and a one party system like a monarchy, the uni-party that spends spends spends.
Thanks for noting the importance of April 19 for America, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I've heard Gettysburg is similar.
Side note: one of the commenters at Breitbart seems disturbed at the thought of the significance of Lexington and Concord. You might even say it “glows”.
April 21st is an important date to Texans: on that day in 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto took place. It was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.
Sadly that state today has horrendous gun laws in violation of the 2nd Amendment.
My wife and I went to Gettysburg, and yes...that feeling, where you look out where Pickett’s Charge took place, is palpable.
One of the coolest things is that you can hire a tour driver who drives your car with you as passengers, and explains things to you! I thought that was money well spent!
But, but, but, these lawbreakers were harboring assault weapons!
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