New York – The American Revolution started on a trail of guns 250 years ago in a trail of guns and colon ponytically spin.
Beginning with the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the country will look back at its independence and ask where its legacy stands today.
President Donald Trump, scholars and others have been divided over a one -year -old party led by July 4, 201226, such as Trump, such as women, slaves and indigenous and their stories, to balance any celebrations, or others.
The history of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts is half-known, mythology is deeply rooted.
The recipients can confidently tell us that hundreds of British soldiers traveled from Boston to Boston on the morning of April 7, 87575, and gathered about 5 miles (22.5 km) north -west in Lexington’s Town Green.
The first witnesses reminded some British officers, “You have thrown your hand, you are a rebellious!” And it was heard a shot in the chaos, then the British “scattered fire”. The war became so deadly that the area spread the burning powder. At the end of the day, the fight was about 7 miles (11 km) west of Concord and about 250 British and 95 colon ponytically died or injured.
However, no one learned who was shot first or why. And the revolution itself was initially less revolution than the demands of better conditions.
Woody Holton, a primary American history professor at the University of South Carolina, said most scholars did not want to leave the empire on April 757575, but agreed to repair their relationship with King George III and return to the stamp law, tea law and other decades before the previous decades.
“The colonists just wanted to go back to 1763,” he said.
Stassy Shif, a Pulitzer prize winner Ian Tihasik, whose books include biographies of Benjasin Franklin and Samuel Adams, Lexington and Concord, “Massachusetts men hoped that it was still a long way to vote for independence, which would still be a long way to vote for independence.”
However, at the time, the Shif added, “It was not possible that any maternal country and its colony were actually hurt.”
The rebels already believed their cause more than the disagreement between the subject and the rulers. Before the turning points of 1776, before the declaration of independence or the pride of Thomas Paine “we have the power to start the world again,” they put ourselves in a drama for ages.
The so-called successful 174741 resolved, Massachusetts, the successful county citizen leaders drafted, “A fight that will determine the fate of this new world and the fate of millions of people” prayed for this life.
The revolution was a surprise and an ongoing story of improvise. The military IAN is the Tihasik Rick Atkinson, whose “day’s fate” is the second of the trilogy planned of the war, which called Lexington and Concord “a clear victory for the home team”, if only the British do not expect such emotional resistance from the colony militia.
The British, whose king George whose “confused and unhappy masses”, always underestimate them, when the rebels immediately blame the royal forces and made a statement and infected again.
“Once firing in Lexington, Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren did everything in their power to collect speeches from witnesses and promote them quickly; the colonies and the world were first dismissed,” said Shif. “Adams confirmed that Lexington conflict” would be famous in the history of this country. ‘ He was sidelined to clear who the invaders were. “
Both sides did not even imagine the last eight years of war, or did not confident that the country would be born. The founders are united in search of self-government, but separate how to manage and whether the self-government can even be permanent.
The Americans never stopped arguing about the balance of power, the rules of the Enforcement or how to apply this advice widely, “all men were made evenly.”
“I think it is important to remember that the language of the founders was ambitious. It was self-evident that the idea that all men were equally made were worried at a time when thousands of people were slaughtered,” Atkinson said, who quoted the debate of the 20th century poet Archibald McLish that never acts. “
Atkinson said, “I don’t think the founders had any idea of a country that would have 330 million people any day.” “Our country will have an incomplete project and perhaps always.”
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