Two and a half centuries ago today, the shot heard round the world was fired on Lexington Green and Patriots launched a Revolution that would give birth to the United States of America.
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By April 1775, as Donald Trump’s official message notes, “After years of intensifying frictions and escalating hostility between the British Crown and the American Colonies, all avenues to peace and diplomacy had been exhausted, and it became clear to the patriots that war was inevitable.” And on the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott galloped to warn Sam Adams and other Patriot leaders, as well as volunteer militia, that the British soldiers were coming to seize them and their weapons. The next day,
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