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The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, were the first major military actions between the British Army and Patriot militias from British America’s Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. The opposing forces fought day-long running battles in Middlesex County in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge.
In this first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence.
How It Ended
American victory. The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonists’ intricate alarm system summoned local militia companies, enabling them to successfully counter the British threat.
Not the only anti-USA propaganda designed to demoralize our citizens, but a recent example.
Thanks to @amuse on X for sharing the propaganda, and the TRUTH!
Imagine you are a sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, somewhere in the waters off Iran, flying combat missions around the clock during Operation Epic Fury. You are eating hot eggs for breakfast, grilled chicken for lunch, roast beef for dinner, and grabbing a plate at midnight rations before your next watch.
Meanwhile, halfway around the world, a domestic media apparatus is publishing photographs purporting to show your meals as rotten slabs of unidentified meat, telling the American public you are starving. The photographs were not taken aboard your ship. They were not taken this decade. Some of them appear to have originated during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, circulated on Reddit as far back as 2017, and laundered through Southeast Asian social media accounts before being amplified by Ukrainian 𝕏 accounts and finally laundered into American living rooms by outlets like USA Today, CNN, and MSNBC.
This is not journalism. This is information warfare, and the American press is either a willing participant or too incompetent to be trusted with the facts.
The proposition I want to defend here is straightforward. The stories alleging food shortages and degraded conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli during Operation Epic Fury were coordinated anti-American propaganda, designed to demoralize the US public and generate opposition to military operations.
One of a series of excellent videos produced by PragerU that commemorate the 250th anniversary of our Independence from Great Britain.
A midnight chase. A coded signal. A countryside with minutes to wake up.
On April 18, 1775, it became a race: Paul Revere vs. a marching British column—who would reach Lexington first? If the British do, Adams and Hancock are taken. If they push through to Concord first, they can seize or destroy Patriot military stores—and the rebellion wakes up with no leaders and no means to fight.