Melanie McCombMedford's "Mother" of the Boston Tea Party recognized with modern honor
https://www.wcvb.com/article/sarah-bradlee-fulton-statue-medford/71064928
Morgan Fletcher@bethroots I have a similar story:
Othniel Young, 1758-1846 was my 5th great- grandfather. He was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA and died in Burrillville, Rhode Island, ten miles away. Six generations later, my father was born sixteen miles from Smithfield, in Providence. What I found in military records was his pension application from August 7, 1832, made when he was seventy-four years old, for his service during the American #RevolutionaryWar. His file contained pages of detail about his enlistment, where he served, in which battles, under which officers. It was mostly facts, without any color to the words, but there it was in long hand, pages of his own account, signed by him, and the testimony of others, including officers still living. It contained correspondence with his descendants, who asked the War Office about him; his name, his dates, the details of his service. Other people like me, descended from him, who were curious about their ancestor...
https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2026/03/othaniel-youngs-revolutionary-war.html
#AmericanRevolution
Skull-man(🇨🇺🇨🇦)🏛️ THE MIDNIGHT RIDE BEGINS
April 18, 1775 — As British redcoats march toward Lexington under cover of darkness, Paul Revere mounts his horse and slips past the HMS Somerset. The lantern in the Old North Church has already signaled 'one if by land, two if by sea.' Now the rider races through colonial Massachusetts, warning minutemen that the shot heard 'round the world is imminent.
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#z_image #AIart #GenerativeAI #LLM #CinematicRealism #AtmosphericArt #OnThisDay #AmericanHistory #RevolutionaryWar #DigitalRealism
knizer#bostonWeekend Sat REENACTORING Battle of Lexington is back, this time with laz0r gunnz. https://www.lexingtonma.gov/851/27884/Patriots-Day-2026 #Boston #LexingtonMA #History #BostonHistory #RevolutionaryWar
Lucas BentleyIs there any other country that exists post-invasion/occupation/colonization, had a civil war between the country’s loyalists & colonizers and then created an entire different country separate from its own country?
PugJesus"The Continental Congress expects your abdication by morning."
♪ And there was Captain Washington/Upon a strapping stallion ♪
IT'S A BRITISH INVASION
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1922392/it-s-a-british-invasion
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFold3: Revolutionary War Pension Files: Now Available Through Full-Text Search. “Revolutionary War pension files are more than just aging papers; they are a goldmine of firsthand accounts from the Patriots who birthed a nation. Fold3 is proud to announce that we have used cutting-edge handwriting recognition technology to transform these quill-and-ink documents into 100% searchable records!”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/15/revolutionary-war-pension-files-now-available-through-full-text-search-fold3/