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Forgotten First Shots of the Revolutionary War,
‘The Watchman’ Thwarts General Gage’s Gun Grab
O'Donnell: 'The Watchman' Thwarts General Gage’s Gun Grab
The epic battle for control over gunpowder and weaponry between the British and the colonists motivated much of the Revolutionary War.
www.breitbart.com
The founding fathers’ unequivocal language in the Bill of Rights that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” immediately after the freedoms of religion, speech, and assembly were reinforced was not accidental. The epic battle for control over gunpowder and weaponry between the British government and American colonists motivated much of the action in the Revolutionary War. The fight over gun control is in American’s DNA.
The first shot of the American Revolution was not the infamous Shot Heard Round the World in April 1775 when the Redcoats fired first on American Patriots on Lexington Green attempting to protect their precious store of gunpowder and weapons from British confiscation. Four months earlier, in now-largely-forgotten raids, Loyalists opened fire on a mob of angry colonists attempting to seize control of precious stores of gunpowder. Alarmed by reports that King George III had signed a secret order banning the export of arms, gunpowder, and military supplies, colonists set their sites on the poorly guarded stockpile of weapons and ammunition at Fort William and Mary near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Like the conflict on Lexington Green, the drive for the Unum Necessarium of the Revolution—gunpowder—fueled the raid. The Crown had concluded the best way to resolve their differences with America was to disarm New England. The Patriots were determined to prevent it.
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Afterward Sullivan penned a letter to his countrymen reminding them of how Rome disarmed the Carthaginians and asking “whether, when we are by an arbitrary decree prohibited the having arms and ammunition by importation, we have not, by the law of self-preservation, a right to seize upon those within our power, in order to defend the liberties which God and nature have given to us.”
He reminded them how Rome destroyed Carthage after the Carthaginians complied, “[These] brave people notwithstanding they had surrendered up three hundred hostages to the Romans upon a promise of being restored their former liberties; found themselves instantly invaded by the Roman Army. They were told that they must deliver up all their arms to the Romans and they should peaceably [e]njoy their liberties upon their compliance with this requisition.” He signed the letter using the only pseudonym “The Watchman.”
Comment:
OMG, Patrick O'Donnell by reminding us of American history will soon be listed as an "Insurrectionalist" by the FBI and by Exec order of Joey Xi Bai Din.
Actually, the recounting of our reveolutionary history is needed to remind Americans why the Second Amendement to our Constitution specifically referred to the right to bear arms.
Watch it! You also will be called an "insurrectionist". The whole Jan 6th 'commission' is to make people believe it is illegal to revolt against their government. I've been asking lately what the difference is between 'insurrection' and 'revolution'. In 1776, the idea was good, these days the idea is bad. Seems to me there is a very fine line of distinction (if any at all) between the two terms.
The big question is, have we created a stand alone government authoritarian figure, no no longer representative of "We The People", but an 'elite' independent organ acting in what it deems to be the "best interests" of the Subjects?
Lest We Forget
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