[Corrected] Battles of Lexington & Concord; 230th Anniversary Today (1775-2005)

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April 19, 2005 marks the 230th anniversary observance of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts; as well does it mark the 10th Anniversary observance of the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing of the U.S. Government’s Federal

Building at 9:02 am that morning. I would rather the focus here be on the 1775 event, which marked the start of the War of American Independence. On this historic day in 1775 the World, the English speaking world, was truly turned upside-down, as the armed forces of the most powerful of Western European nations, Great Britain, suffered an embarrassing set-back at the hands of a rural citizenry both numerous and armed. By the day's end 800 redcoats suffered 25/30% casualties. Ambush snipering by the Patriots militia routed the redcoats that day. And so, there and then, Great Britain's second civil war had begun, that night of the 18/19th of April 1775; to become unstoppably, less than 19 months later, a revolutionary war (strictly defined), on

July 02, 1776.

 

BOSTON (Dr Warren has a Spy; Mr. Revere finds Two Lanterns)

 

In the late afternoon of Tuesday, April 18, people watched the waterfront as the British navy’s longboats began to move about the harbor. The boats rowed towards HMS Boyne, and tied up together alongside. At that same time of day Dr Joseph Warren received confidential word from a spy, well placed in the British command structure, that the "game was afoot": the army was starting an operation to move against the patriot materiel stores at Concord and to capture the top patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. A local patriot, Robert Newman, was engaged by Paul Revere to hang one lantern or two in the Steeple of the Old North Church, to signal the community where and at what time the British army had commenced operations. All starting these events happened in the late afternoon:

 

ASTROLOGY (British Operations/patriot defense measures commenced): The late afternoon of April 18, 1775, if precisely, at 4:14 pm: the Moon was @ 15.Scorpio.39; with the Lagna was @ 09.Virgo.30. (At the time moment of the July 02, 1776 birth of the USA, 4:48:46 pm: the Lagna was at the same exact degree as that of the Moon on April 18th: @ 15.Scorpio.39; and the Mid-Coelum was @ 02.Virgo.23).

 

BOSTON (Those Lanterns: Two by sea)

 

The Massachusetts Colony was a hotbed of sedition by the late winter of 1775. Preparations for conflict with the Royal authority had been underway throughout the winter with the production of arms and munitions, the training of militia (including the minutemen), and the organization of defenses. In April, General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts decided to counter these moves by sending out of Boston a force of 800 redcoats to confiscate weapons reported by his spies to have been stored in the village of Concord, well outside the metropolitan area of Boston, and to capture two key patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, reported to be staying in the village of Lexington. Lexington was on the road between Boston and

Concord.

 

The atmosphere was tense on both sides by the late evening of the 18th. Word of General Gage's intentions and the shore landing of redcoats, well after dark in the failed effort to avoid observation, spread throughout Boston prompting the patriots to activate its messaging system to alert the countryside of any advance of British troops. Paul Revere arrangement for a signal to be sent by lantern from the steeple of North Church, Boston’s tallest building - one if by land, two if by sea. On the night of April 18, 1775

the "two lantern" alarm was lit by 10:00 pm, with horseback riders soon dispatched on the roads out of Boston to spread the news. Dr Joseph Warren, another Patriot leader in Boston, had personally dispatched William Dawes to

Lexington to inform the public throughout the countryside of the expected British military excursion to Lexington and Concord. And to apprise Hancock and Adams of their danger, now imminent.

 

ASTROLOGY (Boston): Revere places lantern signal in the North Church steeple. April 18, 1775, if precisely, at 9:58 pm: the Lagna was @ 15.Scorpio.31; with the Moon @ 18.Scorpio.58; the Mid-Coelum was @ 04.Virgo.24. (At the time

moment of the July 02, 1776 birth of the USA, 4:48:46 pm, the Lagna was same as that of 9:58

pm on April 18, 1775 @ 15.Scorpio.39)

 

LEXINGTON (Redcoats Grab Revere)

 

Fearing that messenger Dawes might be intercepted en route, not long after 10:00 pm (ref. Edward Channing, History of the United States, 1912, pg. 157) Warren sent for Paul Revere and instructed him to set off for Lexington, as well. Horseback riding north and west, what became during the night a small but growing group of messengers, at a gallop, cried out the alarm, awakening every house on their paths, warning of the British column making its way towards Lexington. In

the riders' wake there erupted the peeling of church bells, the beating of drums and the sporadic cracking sound of warning rifle-shots - all announcing the danger and calling the local militias to action. Then some hours subsequently, Paul Revere was captured and made a temporary prisoner of war, at about 1:30 am. (ref. David Hackett Fischer , PAUL REVERE'S RIDE)

 

ASTROLOGY (Lexington): At about 1:30 am, Paul Revere suffered capture by a group of redcoats, a non-fatal act of war; his temporary capture on April 19, 1775, if precisely, at 1:32:28 am: the Lagna was @ 07.Capricorn.23; the Moon was @ 21.Scorpio.06. (At the time moment of birth of the USA, July 02, 1776 @ 4:48:46 pm: the Moon's position was the same sign and degree (exact) of the 1775 event's lagna, @ 07.Capricorn.23;

 

CONCORD (The Shot Heard Round the World)

 

In the predawn light of April 19, the patriots' beating of drums and peeling of Church bells summoned between 50 and 70 militiamen to the town green at Lexington, with hundreds more on the road to join battles that would soon unfold throughout that historic day. As the patriot militia of Lexington Village lined up in battle formation the distant sound of marching boots and shouted orders alerted them of the Redcoats' nearing approach. Soon the British column emerged through the morning fog shortly after 5:00 am, and the confrontation that would alert the world that the American people had started on a 19 month journey to nationhood was soon commenced, which commenced journey began in earnest the previous night with the placement of that lantern in the old North Church, just before 10:00 pm on April 18th..

 

ASTROLOGY (Concord): The “shots heard round the world”, the exchange of rifle fire between the British forces and the American patriots, took place just minutes before dawn, at about 5:15 am. On April 19, 1775, at 5:14:51 am: the Lagna was @ 07.Aries.23 (On Jul 02, 1776 at 4:48:46 pm,

Aries was in the 5th House, empty of planets).

 

Here is highly suggestive evidence of the cosmic connexity of related historic events: One at Boston; one at Lexington; one at Concord and the major event of the following year at Philadelphia. These three moments of the Lexington/Concord events, during the course of a Scorpio Moon, anticipated the historic, mundane, national birth event of July 02, 1776 with its Lagna Scorpio. As in accordance with Masonic hermetic doctrine, a conception's Moon naturally pre-ordains a

birth's Lagna. Almost 18.5 months from start to finish, a nation finally born of a Tuesday: July 02, 1776 @ 4:48:46 pm @ Philadelphia, PA.

AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT:

Twenty-three-year-old Sylvanus Wood was one of the Lexington militia who answered the call that spring morning. Several years after the event he committed his recollection to paper in an affidavit sworn before a Justice of the Peace which was first published in 1858:

"I, Sylvanus Wood, of Woburn, in the county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy-four years, do testify and say that on the morning of the 19th of April, 1775, I was an inhabitant of Woburn, living with Deacon Obadiah Kendall; that about an hour before the break of day on said morning, I heard the Lexington bell ring, and fearing there was difficulty there, I immediately arose, took my gun and, with Robert Douglass, went in haste to Lexington, which was about three miles distant.

When I arrived there, I inquired of Captain Parker, the commander of the Lexington company, what was the news. Parker told me he did not know what to believe, for a man had come up about half an hour before and informed him that the British troops were not on the road. But while we were talking, a messenger came up and told the captain that the British troops were within half a mile. Parker immediately turned to his drummer, William Diman, and ordered him to beat to arms, which was done. Captain Parker then asked me if I would parade with his company. I told him I would. Parker then asked me if the young man with me would parade. I spoke to Douglass, and he said he would follow the captain and me.

 

By this time many of the company had gathered around the captain at the hearing of the drum, where we stood, which was about half way between the meetinghouse and Buckman's tavern. Parker says to his men, 'Every man of you, who is equipped, follow me; and those of you who are not equipped, go into the meeting-house and furnish yourselves from the magazine, and immediately join the company.' Parker led those of us who were equipped to the north end of Lexington Common, near the Bedford Road, and formed us in single file. I was stationed about in the centre of the company. While we were standing, I left my place and went from one end of the company to the other and counted every man who was

paraded, and the whole number was thirty-eight, and no more.

Just as I had finished and got back to my place, I perceived the British troops had arrived on the spot between the meeting-house and Bucknian's, near where Captain Parker stood when he first led off his men. The British troops immediately wheeled so as to cut off those who had gone into the meeting-house. The British troops approached us rapidly in platoons, with a general officer on horseback at their head. The officer came up to within about two rods of the centre of the company, where I stood, the first platoon being about three rods distant. They there halted. The officer then swung his sword, and said, "Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, or you are all dead men. Fire!” Some guns were fired by the British at us from the first platoon, but no person was killed or hurt, being probably charged only with powder.

Just at this time, Captain Parker ordered every man to take care of himself. The company immediately dispersed; and while the company was dispersing and leaping over the wall, the second platoon of the British fired and killed some of our men. There was not a gun fired by anv of Captain Parker's company, within my knowledge. I was so situated that I must have known it, had any thing of the kind taken place before a total dispersion of our company. I have been intimately acquainted with the inhabitants of Lexington, and particularly with those of Captain Parker's company, and, with one exception, I have never heard any of them say or pretend that there was any firing at the British from Parker's company, or any individual in it until within a year or two. One member of the company told me, many years since, that, after Parker's company had dispersed, and he was at some distance, he gave

them 'the guts of his gun.'"

References: Commager, Henry Steele & Morris, Richard B., THE SPIRIT OF ‘SEVENTY-SIX’ Volume I (1958); Fischer, David Hackett, PAUL REVERE’S RIDE (1994). Channing, Edward, A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Volume III, (1912)

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fascinating and instructive. many thanks john.

 

--- JohnTWB <jtwbjakarta wrote:

 

>

> April 19, 2005 marks the 230th anniversary

> observance of the Battles of Lexington and Concord,

> Massachusetts; as well does it mark the 10th

> Anniversary observance of the Oklahoma City

> terrorist bombing of the U.S. Government’s Federal

> Building at 9:02 am that morning. I would rather the

> focus here be on the 1775 event, which marked the

> start of the War of American Independence. On this

> historic day in 1775 the World, the English speaking

> world, was truly turned upside-down, as the armed

> forces of the most powerful of Western European

> nations, Great Britain, suffered an embarrassing

> set-back at the hands of a rural citizenry both

> numerous and armed. By the day's end 800 redcoats

> suffered 25/30% casualties. Ambush snipering by the

> Patriots militia routed the redcoats that day. And

> so, there and then, Great Britain's second civil war

> had begun, that night of the 18/19th of April 1775;

> to become unstoppably, less than 19 months later, a

> revolutionary war (strictly defined), on July 02,

> 1776.

>

>

>

> BOSTON (Dr Warren has a Spy; Mr. Revere finds Two

> Lanterns)

>

>

>

> In the late afternoon of Tuesday, April 18, people

> watched the waterfront as the British navy’s

> longboats began to move about the harbor. The boats

> rowed towards HMS Boyne, and tied up together

> alongside. At that same time of day Dr Joseph Warren

> received confidential word from a spy, well placed

> in the British command structure, that the " game was

> afoot " : the army was starting an operation to move

> against the patriot materiel stores at Concord and

> to capture the top patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and

> John Hancock. A local patriot, Robert Newman, was

> engaged by Paul Revere to hang one lantern or two in

> the Steeple of the Old North Church, to signal the

> community where and at what time the British army

> had commenced operations. All starting these events

> happened in the late afternoon:

>

>

>

> ASTROLOGY (British Operations/patriot defense

> measures commenced): The late afternoon of April 18,

> 1775, if precisely, at 4:14 pm: the Moon was @

> 15.Scorpio.39; with the Lagna was @ 09.Virgo.30. (At

> the time moment of the July 02, 1776 birth of the

> USA, 4:48:46 pm: the Lagna was at the same exact

> degree as that of the Moon on April 18th: @

> 15.Scorpio.39; and the Mid-Coelum was @

> 02.Virgo.23).

>

>

>

> BOSTON (Those Lanterns: Two by sea)

>

>

>

> The Massachusetts Colony was a hotbed of sedition by

> the late winter of 1775. Preparations for conflict

> with the Royal authority had been underway

> throughout the winter with the production of arms

> and munitions, the training of militia (including

> the minutemen), and the organization of defenses. In

> April, General Thomas Gage, military governor of

> Massachusetts decided to counter these moves by

> sending out of Boston a force of 800 redcoats to

> confiscate weapons reported by his spies to have

> been stored in the village of Concord, well outside

> the metropolitan area of Boston, and to capture two

> key patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock,

> reported to be staying in the village of Lexington.

> Lexington was on the road between Boston and

>

> Concord.

>

>

>

> The atmosphere was tense on both sides by the late

> evening of the 18th. Word of General Gage's

> intentions and the shore landing of redcoats, well

> after dark in the failed effort to avoid

> observation, spread throughout Boston prompting the

> patriots to activate its messaging system to alert

> the countryside of any advance of British troops.

> Paul Revere arrangement for a signal to be sent by

> lantern from the steeple of North Church, Boston’s

> tallest building - one if by land, two if by sea. On

> the night of April 18, 1775 the " two lantern " alarm

> was lit by 10:00 pm, with horseback riders soon

> dispatched on the roads out of Boston to spread the

> news. Dr Joseph Warren, another Patriot leader in

> Boston, had personally dispatched William Dawes to

> Lexington to inform the public throughout the

> countryside of the expected British military

> excursion to Lexington and Concord. And to apprise

> Hancock and Adams of their danger, now imminent.

ASTROLOGY (Boston): Revere places lantern signal in

> the North Church steeple. April 18, 1775, if

> precisely, at 9:58 pm: the Lagna was @

> 15.Scorpio.31; with the Moon @ 18.Scorpio.58; the

> Mid-Coelum was @ 04.Virgo.24. (At the time moment

> of the July 02, 1776 birth of the USA, 4:48:46 pm,

> the Lagna was same as that of 9:58 pm on April 18,

> 1775 @ 15.Scorpio.39)

>

>

>

> LEXINGTON (Redcoats Grab Revere)

>

>

>

> Fearing that messenger Dawes might be intercepted en

> route, not long after 10:00 pm (ref. Edward

> Channing, History of the United States, 1912, pg.

> 157) Warren sent for Paul Revere and instructed him

> to set off for Lexington, as well. Horseback riding

> north and west, what became during the night a small

> but growing group of messengers, at a gallop, cried

> out the alarm, awakening every house on their paths,

> warning of the British column making its way towards

> Lexington. In the riders' wake there erupted the

> peeling of church bells, the beating of drums and

> the sporadic cracking sound of warning rifle-shots -

> all announcing the danger and calling the local

> militias to action. Then some hours subsequently,

> Paul Revere was captured and made a temporary

> prisoner of war, at about 1:30 am. (ref. David

> Hackett Fischer , PAUL REVERE'S RIDE)

>

>

>

>

>

> ASTROLOGY (Lexington): At about 1:30 am, Paul Revere

> suffered capture by a group of redcoats, a non-fatal

> act of war; his temporary capture on April 19, 1775,

> if precisely, at 1:32:28 am: the Lagna was @

> 07.Capricorn.23; the Moon was @ 21.Scorpio.06. (At

> the time moment of birth of the USA, July 02, 1776 @

> 4:48:46 pm: the Moon's position was the same sign

> and degree (exact) of the 1775 event's lagna, @

> 07.Capricorn.23;

>

>

>

> CONCORD (The Shot Heard Round the World)

>

>

>

> In the predawn light of April 19, the patriots'

> beating of drums and peeling of Church bells

> summoned between 50 and 70 militiamen to the town

> green at Lexington, with hundreds more on the road

> to join battles that would soon unfold throughout

> that historic day. As the patriot militia of

> Lexington Village lined up in battle formation the

> distant sound of marching boots and shouted orders

> alerted them of the Redcoats' nearing approach. Soon

> the British column emerged through the morning fog

> shortly after 5:00 am, and the confrontation that

> would alert the world that the American people had

> started on a 19 month journey to nationhood was soon

> commenced, which commenced journey began in earnest

> the previous night with the placement of that

> lantern in the old North Church, just before 10:00

> pm on April 18th..

>

>

>

> ASTROLOGY (Concord): The “shots heard round the

> world”, the exchange of rifle fire between the

> British forces and the American patriots, took place

> just minutes before dawn, at about 5:15 am. On April

> 19, 1775, at 5:14:51 am: the Lagna was @ 07.Aries.23

> (On Jul 02, 1776 at 4:48:46 pm, Aries was in the 5th

> House, empty of planets).

>

>

>

> Here is highly suggestive evidence of the cosmic

> connexity of related historic events: One at Boston;

> one at Lexington; one at Concord and the major event

> of the following year at Philadelphia. These three

> moments of the Lexington/Concord events, during the

> course of a Scorpio Moon, anticipated the historic,

> mundane, national birth event of July 02, 1776 with

> its Lagna Scorpio. As in accordance with Masonic

> hermetic

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