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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John Adams was one of the truly indispensable men among our founding fathers. He was the man that wrote one of the first fully written out Constitutions in human history when he wrote the Constitution of Massachusetts. He wrote a seminal book on government that helped inform the founders of our nation, he was an ambassador to France and other European nations, he was our first vice president, our second president, and more.
This Independence Day holiday is an excellent time to revisit one of Red Skelton’s most endearing works: his recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and what that pledge means.
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.
The media is upset this weekend that President Donald Trump canceled the “White House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition started by Thomas Jefferson.” But the media is wrong in every respect. Thomas Jefferson never held any Iftar dinner and only three out of 45 presidents ever hosted one, so there is no such “tradition” to cancel.
Today, December 19, is the day the electors meet to cast their Electoral College votes to actually certify who will become the next president of the United States and if the anti-American left has its way enough of these electors will defy their duty and vote for anyone other than the actual winner, Donald J. Trump. Even if this last second effort doesn’t beat Trump, the whole campaign is thoroughly anti-American and can’t end well.
As we gather across the nation to celebrate our Declaration of Independence and the founding of our country on Independence Day, it is right that we take stock of the great genius of our nation’s founding.
Usually over the Independence Day weekend we spend time posting stories about America and patriotism. But this is also the perfect time to remember that the left never stops hating America and Americans first and foremost, so here are just some recent stories to remind us of how anti-American liberals really are.
The faux President of the United States on the ABC TV show Scandal gave one of those typically left-wing TV speeches that is more like an uninformed screed meant to push a leftist agenda than truthful commentary. In this case the actor pretending to be president scorned the Second Amendment and then said incorrectly that slavery was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
Looks like the Obamaites are once again attempting to tech our children that the U.S. is an evil country with new nationalized “history” standards for our schools that eliminate the founding fathers and focuses only on a relentlessly negative interpretation of the birth of the country.
As a conservative it is easy to look at Washington and find nothing but despair. Socialism is once again on the march with autocratic Democrats and left leaning “Republicans” all seeking to raise taxes, spend more, destroy the integrity of our borders, eviscerate our military, spy on us all, and impose a one-size-fits-all education scheme. In DC, the Democrats are practically indistinguishable from the Republicans. But a bright spot is seen in those states who are rebelling over this top down control by liberalizing gun laws, restricting abortion, and otherwise beginning to look for ways to assert their long dormant powers.
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.
The fact is the Founders did not want a nation free from religion (there is 
California Democrat, Representative Nancy Pelosi recently informed the nation that July Fourth isn’t just for fireworks and dissing the Brits any more. It is also the day we should “celebrate” Obamacare.
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Actor and hardcore progressive Danny Glover should add revisionist historian to his growing resume of left-wing activism after a recent visit to Texas A&M University where he told students that the Second Amendment was mainly meant to keep African Americans in slavery and to kill Native American peoples.
It has been revealed that some Texas schools were teaching that the Boston Tea Party, an event widely understood as having helped spark the American Revolution, was actually a “terrorist” attack on British authorities.
Like most conservatives, I felt Election Day was the end of the United States of America. I am not convinced going forward that it isn’t, either. But on this day of giving thanks for what we do have, it would be a mistake not to be grateful for the things with which we have, in our good fortune, been blessed. There are things that we should and must be thankful for.