http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Patriots'Day Posts tagged with 'Patriots'Day' at MetaFilter. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:41:11 -0800 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:41:11 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70982/On%2Dthe%2Deighteenth%2Dof%2DApril%2Din%2DSeventyFive%2DHardly%2Da%2Dman%2Dis%2Dnow%2Dalive%2Dwho%2Dremembers%2Dthat%2Dfamous%2Dday%2Dand%2Dyear "We Nathaniel Mulliken, Philip Russell, [and 32 other men], All of lawful age, and inhabitants of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex...do testify and declare, that on the nineteenth [of April] in the morning, <a href="http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2008/04/without-paul-revere.html">being informed that</a>...<a href="http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/">a body of regulars</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#The_Midnight_Ride_of_Paul_Revere">were marching from Boston towards Concord</a>...and soon found<a href="http://www.nps.gov/mima/"> that a large body of troops were marching towards us</a>...whilst our backs were turned on the troops, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord#First_shot">we were fired on by them</a>, and a number of our men were instantly killed and wounded..."^{<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dKgvSKu9Y2YC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=We+Nathaniel+Mulliken,+Philip+Russell&source=web&ots=gmAT-dCcQ-&sig=d50dkzD8fzdxFwdnGnLuYCWr9uc&hl=en">*</a>} Thus "<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7963654012735421015&q=lexington+%2B+concord&ei=ajgKSJyCOojS4QL-o6y0BA">the shot heard</a> <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3714945954891381008&q=lexington+%2B+concord&ei=sDgKSPjMLI-05AKqkpyyBA">around the world</a>" <small>[video | 10:01]</small> led American colonialists (eventually with <a href="http://www.americanrevolution.org/frcon.html">the help of the </a><a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/sfelshin/saintonge/frhist.html">French</a>) <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1886145627130631491&q=lexington+%2B+concord&ei=6jcKSP-nMZyO4wLji-G1BA"> on the path to founding a new nation</a> <small>[video | 54:04]</small>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70982 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:41:11 -0800 AmericanRevolution April191775 Concord Lexington Patriots'Day ericb