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2. Consequences through the Ages
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Grenadiers, in the foreground wearing bearskin caps, provide covering fire as a Light Company prepares to drive off colonial militia drawn up in the trees. - photo by Minute Man National Historic Site
Author’s Note: In this installment, Albert “Alby” Louder bears witness to what he has feared most — open conflict with the Crown. DRS April 19, 1775 Most esteemed Editor-at-large, Today has seen the worst of all possibilities come to pass as Englishmen have spilled each other’s blood in Massachusetts. The Crown is no stranger to rebellious Englishmen as King George himself owes his position to the follies of his Stuart cousins a little more than a century ago.