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Joined: 2/4/2009 From: Be'eri, Hadarom, Israel Status: offline
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Happy Patriots day!!! 1775 - At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize an arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 minutemen waiting. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the Patriots to disperse, who began to leave. Suddenly, the "shot heard around the world" was fired and a cloud of musket smoke covered the green. Eight Americans lay dead with 10 wounded. The American Revolution had begun.
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But when Territories are acquired in regions where there are differences in language, customs, and laws then great good fortune and much hard work are required to hold them. -Machiavelli, Il Principe, Book III-
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