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Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw… Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.

Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, Would not these same men be labeled homegrown terrorists today?

The incident described in this article is not something that recently took place in the Boston area, but rather a recasting of a centuries-old event that is widely regarded as marking the beginning of the American Revolutionary War: the military clashes at Lexington and Concord that took place between British troops commonly known as "redcoats" or "regulars" and Massachusetts militia commonly known as "Minutemen" on April in The "National Guard" troops were British soldiers, the "paramilitary extremist faction" was rebellious colonials, Thomas Gage was the military governor of Massachusetts and the commander-in-chief of British forces who had been sent to occupy Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party and other colonial acts of protest, and the "law enforcement" group was British troops dispatched to Concord about 26 miles northeast of Boston on the night of April 18 in order to destroy military supplies that were reportedly being stored there by colonial rebels.

The colonists learned of the British plans in advance, and William Dawes, Paul Revere, and others famously spread an alarm throughout the area that night warning that British regulars were about to embark in boats from Boston bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord.

Those early warnings allowed colonial militia to assemble in sufficient numbers to surprise the British troops at Lexington and confront them again at Concord. Those two skirmishes, as well as additional attacks on the British troops as they returned to Boston, left 72 redcoats dead. The colonial militia continued to grow as neighboring colonies sent additional men and supplies, and eventually formed the beginning of the Continental Army that would contest the British in the Revolutionary War.

This article is therefore not a contemporary news report, but rather a form of satire that seeks to criticize modern calls for additional gun ownership restrictions such as bans on "assault weapons" and the potential for stripping citizens of weapons they might need to protect themselves against government depredations.

Colonel Smith, finding his forces over-matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. All of this transpired on April the 19th and 20th, in the year You can tell it takes about the entire article to tell that it is just a recount of what happened.

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