Lexington, The way it started...

[SAnd]

Well maybe not exactly this way.
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I've been thinking a lot about that picture lately. It was one of the first pictures I downloaded about ten years ago.

Here is a link to a bigger higher resoltion of that picture-
http://freepeopleontheland.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/lexingtonm4minutemenlg.jpg

April 19, 1775
Stand your ground
Don't fire unless fired upon
But if they mean to have a war
Let it begin here.

The orders given by militia Captain Parker to the farmers who showed up to try to resist the then-finest, most powerful army in the world.

[Alpha2]

Me thinks the outcome would have been dramatically different, and the end of the Revolutionary War a little sooner. Then, the Brits would have coined the term "WTF?"

[blacklabel]

Then, the Brits would have coined the term "WTF?"

I laughed, hard.

[sniper7]

it would not have been called a revolution, it would have been called a massacre.

[cstone]

It would have required far less soldiers and Gen. Washington would have never lost a battle.

It sort of reminds me why I don't like reading Turtledove's books.