lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

A history lesson: April 20, 1775

72 killed resisting gun confiscation by National Guard in Boston!

http://www.ilgunrights.com/72-killed-resisting-gun-confiscation-by-national-guard-in-boston/

Mollie Loc: melbourne

horrific!

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

Not really that was on April 20, 1775

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I think a bit of fact checking might be in order here.
--Bob

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

American War of Independence
See also: Boston campaign

On April 14, 1775, Gage received orders from London to take decisive action against the Patriots.[73] Given intelligence that the militia had been stockpiling weapons at Concord, Massachusetts, he ordered a troop of regulars to march there on the night of 18 April to confiscate them.[74] A brief skirmish in Lexington scattered colonial militia forces gathered there, but in a later standoff in Concord, a portion of the British force was routed by a stronger colonial militia contingent. When the British left Concord following their search (which was largely unsuccessful, as the colonists, with advance warning of the action, had removed most of the supplies), arriving colonial militia engaged the British column in a running battle all the way back to Charlestown. The Battles of Lexington and Concord resulted in 273 total casualties for the British and 93 for the American rebels.[75]

Following Lexington and Concord, thousands of colonial militia surrounded the city, beginning the Siege of Boston. At first, the rebels (led mainly by Massachusetts General Artemas Ward) faced some 4,000 British regulars, who were bottled up in the city.[76] British Admiral Samuel Graves commanded the fleet that continued to control the harbour. On 25 May, 4,500 reinforcements arrived in the city, along with three more generals: Major General William Howe and Brigadiers John Burgoyne and Henry Clinton.[77]

TucsonCoyote Loc: Tucson AZ

............."Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.

And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.


On July 4th, 1776 these same extremists signed the Declaration of Independence, pledging to each other and their countrymen their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Many of them lost everything, including their families and their lives over the course of the next few years."

...We beat them damned Redcoats ! lol

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

Mollie Loc: melbourne

It is still horrific /

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Excellent. It was British Regulars that were to confiscate weapons, not National Guardsmen. The Regulars seem to have met a bit of resistance.
--Bob

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

What a load. I know we Americans think of these guys as heroes but from the British perspective they were traitors.
Sometimes what we see is determined by where we stand.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Anybody but Hillary.

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Don't know why they keep wanting to ban guns, that ship has sailed. We will never give them up. Just look at those that did. Their government shoves anything they want into law.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

--Bob