pjmedia.com By Catherine Salgado
The British expected to march through Massachusetts, seize Patriot arms, perhaps skirmish with a few American Patriots, and return the victors. They had underestimated American Patriots’ courage, ingenuity, determination, and love of liberty.
Today is the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. While there had been skirmishes and clashes between the Americans and the British troops before that April 19, 1775, historians generally consider the “shot heard round the world” fired on Lexington Green the start of the American Revolution. And in our country today, when Americans across the political spectrum (though particularly on the left) are over-reliant on government, undisciplined, irrationally biased, and too easily pressured into surrendering rights and freedoms in exchange for material benefits or government approval, we obviously need a revival of the 1775 spirit, especially ahead of America’s 250th birthday.
British soldiers marched out from Boston to seize Patriot firearms, but Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott galloped ahead on the night of April 18 to warn the Patriots, and by the morning of April 19, the British troops found themselves facing a group of over 70 determined minutemen on Lexington Green. The first volley of shots killed multiple Americans, but the British wins of the day ended there, as some 400 militiamen in Concord defeated the British and forced a retreat back to Boston, with the Redcoats harried and harassed on the way back. The American Patriots had finally begun a Revolution that pitted an economically, racially, intellectually, and religiously diverse group of volunteers and raw recruits against the most powerful Empire in the world…
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