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In article <dibcj2tfi7bdp7nbh74tr3upfnku9as0de@4ax.com>,
George O. Bizzigotti <gbizzigo@mitretek.org> wrote:
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George O. Bizzigotti <gbizzigo@mitretek.org> wrote:
to have been a lot of myth. What a waste of learning time.On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:20:23 GMT, <lucasea@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Maybe not the "Founding Fathers" as in Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, etc,
but in fact, yes. The famous "shot heard round the world" was a British
soldier firing on an angry mob, some of whom were throwing stones.
I can't resist being pedantic, because I think this is a conflation of
the "Boston Massacre" on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers
fired on an angry mob, some of whom were throwing stones, and the
Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775, which Longfellow immortalized as
the shot heard round the world. To make things even more confusing,
the "shot heard round the world" has become connected in popular
culture with the "first shot" of the Revolution earlier on April 19 in
Lexington; it's not known whether the first shot at Lexington was
fired by a British soldier or an American militiaman. In Longfellow's
poem, the shot is fired by the colonial side, "the embattled farmers,"
at the Concord bridge.
Yes. The history we (US kids) learned in elementary school seems
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