It was 230 years ago this month when 700 British redcoats marched from Boston to Concord to seize rebel colonial war supplies and hopefully capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams during the incursion. They weren’t overly concerned about the rag-tag colonial farmer opposition who had dubbed themselves Minutemen. The name ’Minutemen‘ was derived from a vow that colonial farmers could and would be ready to fight for liberty within a minute’s notice. What kind of threat could these Minutemen, tillers of soil, be to one of Europe’s finest armies? The Minutemen’s strength was just 70 men against some 700 regimented...