April 19, 1775
British Lt. Col. Francis Smith with 700 troops began moving towards Concord, Massachusetts with orders to confiscate the colonist’s arms and powder stockpiled there. A detachment of the light infantry under Major John Pitcairn were met on the green in Lexington by Captain John Parker and around 80 Minutemen in parade formation. Shots were fired, several Minutemen were killed, and the British troops continued on towards Concord.
The powder and arms in Concord had been moved before the British troops arrived and they went back to Boston empty handed harassed the entire way by the many militias gathering to the cause. This engagement triggered all the militias in the area to turn out, and by the time the British troops made it back to Boston, there were nearly as many militia men surrounding Boston as there were British troops occupying the city.
The “Shot Heard Round the World” has been recognized as the final straw that launched the American Revolutionary War. Today, our government has become far more oppressive than the British government of that time. It is time for a new American Revolution while there is still a chance for it to be a bloodless revolution.
What issue is the hill that you would be willing to die on?
Concord Hymn
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone.
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
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