by April 19th marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. General Gage’s attempt to seize and destroy the weapons and munitions of the militias was the spark that that sent the 13 colonies on their way to becoming the original 13 states of the United States of America.
In the video below which was produced by the White House in collaboration with Hillsdale College as part of their The Story of America series examines the battles in detail. The video features Wilfred McClay who holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale.
Sadly, both the current government of Massachusetts and the judges of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals have failed to comprehend the lessons of Lexington and Concord. The 1st Circuit just upheld a challenge to the Massachusetts AWB finding that these weapons were “dangerous and unusual” and thus regulation comported with the Bruen decision. Frankly, it was a perversion of history but it fits their blindered narrative. That this egregious decision was released a mere two days before the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord cannot have been just an accident of timing.
An interesting side note is that the author of the decision, Judge Gary Katzmann, had served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer when Breyer was a judge on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
The American Battlefield Trust has also produced a very good video on the battles that features reenactments of segments of the battles. It is worth a look as well.
The key words of the poem are “To every Middlesex village and farm”. It was the organization that won the Battle of Concord and turned the British retreat into a bloody disaster. Gun owners need to remember that the software was more important than the hardware.
As Lee Lapin use to say back at THR That Was before the Great Zeanah Piracy:
“Mindset, Skillset, Toolset – IN THAT ORDER.”
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The woman who introduced me to shooting is descended from lots of Lexington Alarm veterans. 💥❤️
The lesson was hammered home 250 years ago and is valid today. Armed ‘civilians’ defended their homes and people.
April 19th is also marks 32nd anniversary of the federal government’s FBI & ATF deciding to massacre ~76 citizens because a $200 tax may not have been paid, and because they were getting embarrassed by the press. Many in the ATF leadership now, posed for photo ops on top of still smoldering corpses of children then. We have a long way to go before we are free.
What impact did the battles of Lexington and Concord have on the broader American Revolution, and how do reenactments help us understand these historical events?
Fine news for all us