1. Go to the Concord bridge if you get a chance. Also the village green at Lexington. Put yourself in the position of those colonists in 1775. It is profoundly moving.

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   1. Also at the Concord bridge are the graves of a couple of British solders that came all the way across the Atlantic to die in a small American village.

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2. April 19, 1775.

   “Her once the embattled farmers stood,
   and fired the shot heard round the world.”

   Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Nous Defions

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3. please note it was 1775 when the “fun” started. The disarming of the colonies had begun in 1774 with the Cambridge powder raid.

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4. Oleg Volk, as usual, does a good job: http://www.olegvolk.net/gallery/technology/arms/revolution1793.jpg.html
   He understands history generally, for that matter. Similar topic, different time, good message: http://www.olegvolk.net/gallery/technology/arms/dredscott.jpg.html

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