I’m still here…. Just caught up in re-locating. But there is always time to remember who we are…
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Do you know what Patriots Day is? Never forget what the terrorists did to us. But remember the significance of this time in American history when brave patriots opened the door to a free republic many today have no real concept of, yet it remains the greatest model of governance in human history. Learn it, know it, live it. Teach your children to understand it, so they may never take it for granted.
Good luck to the runners. God bless them and all the spectators today in Boston!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, marked the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War — an open armed conflict between Great Britain and 13 of its North American colonies which had declared themselves as the independent United States of America. They took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, one of the 13 original U.S. states, within the neighboring towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Cambridge and present-day Arlington.
Hundreds of British soldiers marched from Boston to nearby Concord on the night of April 18 to destroy an arms cache collected by the American colonists. Paul Revere and other riders alerted colonial Minutemen of the plan, who then mobilized to intercept the Redcoats.
The British army outnumbered the Americans on the battlefield in Lexington and headed for Concord shortly after. But they were surprised by a counterattack from the colonists upon their arrival, forcing the Redcoats to hastily retreat to Boston. That day, 49 Americans and 73 British were killed. The fighting proved to the American colonists that they could defeat the British. After years of warfare when the cause often seemed lost, the colonies formally won their independence from Great Britain in 1783.
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