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The Shot and the Prayer
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
— Joshua 1:9
THE STORY
The night before the battle, Captain John Parker gathered his men.
It was April 18th, 1775, and the British regulars were on the march from Boston. Parker's militia, farmers, tradesmen, ordinary men who had never been soldiers, assembled on the Lexington Green in the cold pre-dawn hours. They knew the British were coming. They knew they were outnumbered.
Parker was a man of few words. The…
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