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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

What You May Not Know About Lexington and Concord

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

You know about the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world, the minutemen and their trifold hats and muskets. But how much do you really know about the day's events? This episode we look at the day of fighting at Concord, when a British raiding party turned into a display of American resistance and a trial run for American independence. We look at the stories from that day, and deal with some misconceptions and discuss the impact of the American origin story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:35.8

I was barely holding my breath in my hands.

0:45.6

Soro Daniel Child, a minute man of Lincoln, Massachusetts, who fought in the Concord fight

0:52.3

with his brother, his kin, and his neighbors.

0:56.5

Child was hiding behind a rock with musket fire whisking by him from all sides.

1:02.5

He had sought the rock after literally running between musket balls to get to a safe place.

1:09.1

Child, who was in the business of harassing the King's troops today, as they moved from

1:13.6

Concord back to Boston.

1:16.3

Give him an old Yankee welcome that they'd remember, along what would be a bloody road.

1:22.2

Found himself literally caught between a group of British troops marching down the road.

1:27.6

And a group of flankers, smaller detachments, sent out by the main body to keep people

1:33.4

like him away.

1:35.6

He was between these two groups.

1:38.1

And for a second, what must have been an adrenaline fuel second?

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