On April 19, 1775, British Redcoats and American colonists fired on one another on the green in Lexington, Massachusetts, about 20 miles from Boston. This “shot heard around the world” kicked off the American Revolutionary War and forever changed the world.
Our schools are probably not teaching much about this any more, as left-wing ideology and anti-Americanism is far more important to “educators” today than anything important like the Revolutionary War.
But our war to separate from Britain’s control and to stand on our own two feet forever changed the world and gave birth to the United States of America, the greatest country ever created by man.
It all started on evening of April 18 when British forces began filing onto the streets of Boston to being their mission to disarm the colonists. The plan was to fan out from Boston to confiscate the arms and ammunition of suspected colonial revolutionaries.
While it was supposed to be a secret mission, the stealth of the effort quickly failed. The British movements sent Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott to horse to begin to spread the word that “The British Are Coming” so that colonists could steel themselves for the struggle that was sure to come in the morning.
By the morning of the 19th, about 700 regular British troops under the command of General Thomas Gage had arrived in Lexington, about 20 miles south west from Boston. There they confronted only about 77 armed militiamen. Shots quickly rang out, though it is unknown which side fired first. With the militiamen so badly out numbered, they took the brunt of the exchange and suffered eight dead, including their third-in-command, Ensign Robert Munroe. The British only lost one soldier.
The militiamen withdrew to the town of Concord, about eight miles away. There, about 400 militia clashed with 100 redcoat regulars from three companies of the King’s troops at about 11:00 a.m. This time, it was the redcoats turn to withdraw from Concord’s North Bridge as they fell back to their main body of troops in the town.
The battle was a surprise win for the militiamen who lost 49 killed, 39 wounded, and five missing while the British under Lt. Col. Francis Smith found a steeper price, losing 73 killed, 174 wounded, and 26 missing.
After the Battle of Concord, the British began withdrawing back the twenty miles to Boston where their main forces were stationed, and along the way they were harassed, shot at, and hectored by every colonial they encountered. The whole campaign was a black eye for General Gage’s forces and emboldened the colonials to start the war in earnest.
The twin actions at Lexington and Concord were immortalized in verse by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem “Concord Hymn,” in which he used the phrase “the shot heard around the world.”
Emerson, whose grandfather witnessed the battle in Concord, opened his poem, writing, “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 description was apt as the Revolutionary War was one of the first few “world wars” in which forces from several European countries encountered forces in the New World.
Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston, X at WTHuston, or Truth Social at @WarnerToddHuston.
I think this has to be the funniest recent story highlighting the foolishness on the campuses of our universities. On Thursday a group of “silent” protesters got in a war of words with naked-run “primal scream” participants at Harvard. The Ferguson protesters were upset that the primal screamers were ignoring them and refusing to join in with their “moment of silence” so they began to scold and whine to the primal screamers, all to no avail.
So, no doubt you are reading that headline and expecting me to be coming out in favor of perverted, privacy invading photos taken up a woman’s skirt with neither her knowledge nor approval. Naturally I am not, but I am still glad that the Massachusetts Supreme Court did not ban such illicit photography. In fact, the court did exactly what it should have.
A woman has been arrested in Boston for trying to scam money out of the Boston marathon bombing victim’s fund saying she had a brain injury. Turns out she wasn’t even in the state during the blast, much less the city!
The cover of the August issue of Rolling Stone magazine won’t feature a rock star or actor. Instead, on August 3, fans will find a 
Reddit has officially apologized for users’ assumption that an innocent and missing Brown University student was a likely suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
On his Sunday broadcast, CNN’s Howard Kurtz was critical of both CNN’s and the rest of the media’s coverage of the quickly moving story of the apprehension of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on Friday. “What is the rush to put this information that has not been confirmed on the air?” Kurtz asked of his own network as well as the rest of the progressive media establishment.
CNN commissioned an explosives expert in New Mexico to build and detonate a homemade bomb built from a pressure cooker, filming the blast in slow motion to study the damage it can cause.
What one resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts had to say about the atmosphere in that liberal area of the state was quite telling in revealing how essentially un-American leftism truly is. This resident practically admitted that the in that college town, everyone expresses the same basic hate for America that dead terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev so often did. When he terrorist Tsarnaev was heard attacking America in conversation, no one paid it any mind.
Before the dust has settled, before any idea of who perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombing and why is determined, the Boston Globe is fretting for the city’s Muslims claiming that there will surely be a “backlash” if the bombers are found to be Islamic extremists. This despite that even after 9/11 there was never any real backlash against Muslims in this country.
Last week the talk of the news cycle centered on yet another “gaffe” by Vice President Joe Biden. In front of an audience half filled with African Americans Biden made the outrageous claim that Republicans want to put blacks “back in chains.” Many left-wingers and Democrats rushed out to defend Biden’s idiocy, but this weekend the Boston Globe parted company with defenders and 
It’s a “
Abdullah Faaruuq, a Muslim “spiritual advisor” and chaplain from Boston-based Northeastern University, was a key speaker at a fundraiser for al Qaeda’s Ma Barker, the criminal female terrorist named Aafia Siddiqui, also known as “Lady al Qaeda.” This man, Faaruuq, is living off American taxpayers yet advocates for his followers to use “the gun and the sword” to advance Islam in America.
The Greater Boston Food Bank intended to have a fundraising event in Boston’s Dewey Square over the weekend of the 14th of October. It was to be called the “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” and was supposed to help raise funds to feed the poor and needy. But due to the tantrums being thrown by the Occupy Boston protestors 
Apparently the Obama White House is not so fond of the Boston Herald. Well, maybe “not so fond” is too mild. More like furious. So mad, in fact, that the paper was banned by the White House from covering local visits by Obama and crew. The Boston Herald said “pretty please” and Big Brother O’s crew said, “not allowed!” And Orwell would be saying, “I told ya so.”