Bastille Day

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Happy Bastille Day!!  The day in 1789 when a mob released all seven of the prisoners held at the Bastille, succeeding in getting a hundred of their fellow stormers killed.  It's main purpose was to loot the arms stored there.  It is like Lexington and Concord 14 years earlier in that both involved trying to acquire munitions (although it was the British authorities who were trying to destroy munitions they correctly believed the patriots had collected) .  The two events had almost no tactical importance but became real flashpoints of patriotism and each country celebrates their respective events as the beginning of their revolutions.   When I was at Ft. Devens in Ayre, Massachussetts, we marched in the annual reenactment of the Boston to Lexington/Concord route.  We were volumteered, a great military tradition, not unlike the British who marched out of Boston.  Of course, we were not shot at like the British were.

So sing La Marseillaise and have a great day.