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.
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In 1982 NBC started broadcasting its “Christmas in Washington” program and would do so for several years afterward. But in its inaugural broadcast, the network featured a heartwarming clip of President Ronald Reagan reading a Christmas story to a group of children.
Even in death the fake news media pushes this lie: George H.W. Bush was so “out of touch” that he didn’t know what a common grocery price scanner was.
Our kids have been taught fake news about America’s first Thanksgiving. The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims. Ending communism did.
During the Civil War, both presidents, Lincoln and Jeff Davis, issued Thanksgiving Day proclamations and celebration of the holiday as we know it grew as a result.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor — and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
As no truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and of the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributer of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well-being of communities; as it is also most reasonable in itself that men who are made capable of social acts and relations, who owe their improvements to the social state, and who derive their enjoyments from it, should, as a society, make their acknowledgments of dependence and obligation to Him who hath endowed them with these capacities and elevated them in the scale of existence by these distinctions; as it is likewise a plain dictate of duty and a strong sentiment of nature that in circumstances of great urgency and seasons of imminent danger earnest and particular supplications should be made to Him who is able to defend or to destroy; as, moreover, the most precious interests of the people of the United States are still held in jeopardy by the hostile designs and insidious acts of a foreign nation, as well as by the dissemination among them of those principles, subversive of the foundations of all religious, moral, and social obligations, that have produced incalculable mischief and misery in other countries; and as, in fine, the observance of special seasons for public religious solemnities is happily calculated to avert the evils which we ought to deprecate and to excite to the performance of the duties which we ought to discharge by calling and fixing the attention of the people at large to the momentous truths already recited, by affording opportunity to teach and inculcate them by animating devotion and giving to it the character of a national act:
Today America enjoys the celebration of 241 years as a nation by noting the day we declared our independence from England. Sadly, that celebration has, for too many, become the “Fourth of July” holiday, a day of picnics, rote parades, “white sales,” and for some a day off work. Of course, we should not and don’t celebrate any “July Fourth” holiday. We celebrate Independence Day, the day we formally separated from our parent nation and took those first unsteady steps into the world as a nation of our own.
It is indisputable that the Republican Party is really the party of civil rights, not the Democrats. And today we have one more example of that truism with the 145th anniversary of the Republican Party’s essential outlawing of the Ku Klux Klan, the Democrat Party’s domestic terror group.
Chicago’s most famous anti-gun Catholic priest was just hit with some embarrassing news when his bodyguard was arrested for illegally carrying a gun.
Monday, February 19 has been designated as “President’s Day,” another fake holiday seemingly meant to tear down American heroes and replace them with a meaningless day off of work (for some). But I urge you, America, reject this sham holiday.