Standing Armies: The Foundation of Tyranny
March 5, 1770. The Boston Massacre. British regulars fired on a crowd. Five people died. Tragic, absolutely. Predictable, without a doubt. This wasn’t hindsight. On the fifth anniversary of the bloodshed, Dr. Joseph Warren laid out exactly why:, it was part of ...
Boston Massacre: Have We Remembered, or Surrendered?
“Remember, my friends, from whom you sprang” Commemorating the anniversary of the Boston Massacre – March 5, 1770 – John Hancock was issuing a challenge to all of us. And he was far from alone. For 13 years, from 1771 to 1783, the Sons and Daughters of...
Writs, Riots, and Redcoats: Hancock’s Spark of the Revolution
In an early confrontation between the customs officials and John Hancock, the British hoped that flexing their muscles would teach the colonists a lesson and cow them into submission. They were wrong. Instead, the crackdown sparked a willingness to physically resist...