posted by Writer on Apr 19
“…if they war to have a war, let it begin here!”After skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, British troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Smith began their trek back to Boston – a road back that turned into the “highway of death.”
Captain John Parker reorganized his force and ambushed the Redcoats when they became bottle-necked crossing a bridge near the Tabitha Nelson House.
Stunned, the troops lost cohesion as Minutemen from “every Middlesex village and farm sniped from behind stone walls, trees, barns, houses, all the way back to Charlestown peninsula.”
At the end of the day they inflicted over 275 causulaties on “his Majesty’s troops.”
Today marks the anniversary of “the shot heard round the world”, when our forefathers had enough of George III’s tyrannical reign and stood against the greatest military power on earth at that time.
The final straw was when 800 regulars came to disarm them. Led by Pastor Jonas Clark, most were killed within 15 minutes.
Like then, the wolf is at the door.
America needs patriots ready to rip it’s throat out.
A great cloud of witnesses, perhaps Isaac Muzzey, Jonathan Harrington and Jonas Parker, will point an accusatory finger at us on Judgement Day for capitulating and giving up the hard fought freedoms they died for on this day.
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