 What, as a matter of fact, were the minute-men of the Revolution ? They were citizens-at-large whom the Provincial congresses and the Committees of Safety of 1774 instructed to keep their powder-horns filled and hold themselves in readiness to shoot Britishers....  Joseph Stebbins, a Pioneer at the Outbreak of the Revolution - Stran 10avtor: George Sheldon - 1916 - 15 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
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...American citizen need do is to take down his gun and shoot the presumptuous invader of our shores. selves in readiness to shoot Britishers. They had had no...ammunition, they were hardly more than an armed rabble, until men like Lafayette and DeKalb took them in hand and until untold and unnecessary hardships turned... | |
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