As militiamen saw the incoming British soldiers, they started to disperse, someone made a shot and a firefight started, as later it was called, "The Shot That Was Heard Around The World". ... After about five minutes of firefight, Major John Pitcairn, who was commanding the British soldiers, started to move back to Boston with his troops. ... People like Thomas Jefferson, Philip Livingston, John, Hancock and Benjamin Franklin. ...

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It was the last chance they had to ensure their stance and the last gathering before the shoot that was heard around the world was set up. ... The Red Coats were heading to Lexington to, "capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then CONCORD, where they would seize gunpowder. " (Greene). The Road Coats were on a mission and the Minuteman foiled their plans, they got anger and would shoot off and become known as the shot heard round the world (American Rev. ...

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A Latin statement commonly used in the Middle Ages to define the purpose of government reads: servitium propter jura, non potestas praeter jura. This succinct statement translates to mean, "service to and for the sake of rights, not a power exercised beyond or outside of rights." This age-old defini...

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Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. Jefferson exemplifies the aristocrat, the democratic politician, writer extraordinaire, and the pacifist. Jackson epit...

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