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Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like?
Their walls are built of cannonballs,
their motto is "Don't tread on me".

This flag represented a group of about one hundred minutemen from Culpeper, Virginia. The group formed part of Colonel Patrick Henry's First Virginia Regiment of 1775. In October-November 1775 three hundred such minutemen, led by Colonel Stevens, assembled at Culpeper Court House and marched for Williamsburg. Their unusual dress alarmed the people as they marched through the country. The word "LIBERTY OR DEATH" were in large white letters on the breast of their hunting shirts. They had bucks' tails in their hats and in their belts, tomahawks and scalping knives.

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Have your musket clean as a whistle,
hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball,
and be ready to march at a minute's warning.

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In 1787 when Patrick Henry, a politician who was also an attorney, received an invitation to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, he immediately became suspicious that this convention’s ambition was a movement to a stronger central government and declared, “I smell a rat!”

Patrick Henry was right.