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8/30/1775 - The 1st US pitched battle victory: Ben Arnold + Ethan Allen &
The Green Mountain (Vermont) Boys beat up on the Other Guys. (Lex/Concord
was 4/19/1775) I haven't found a song directly about it yet (Maybe Irwin
or Sam or someone might have one) but it seems the Brits were still
smarting about it nearly 40 years later & had the notion they'd make up
for the loss in 1814...
We've as choice a British army as ever crossed the seas,
We'll burn both town and city, and with smoke becloud the skies,
We'll subdue the old green mountain boys,their Washington is gone,
And we'll play them Yankee Doodle, as the Yankees did Burgoyne.
"Noble Lads Of Canada," The FORGET ME NOT SONGSTER 1835 edition
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