Was 1775 "Battle of Lexington" a False Flag?

(1775 depictions show Americans being slaughtered. No one is even firing back.)

The “Battle of Lexington,” 1775, was portrayed as an unprovoked slaughter of colonists by the British. James Perloff believes that, like the sinking of the USS Maine, the sinking of the Lusitania, and 9-11, the event was engineered to start war.

It seems Americans have been manipulated into fighting wars from the get-go.

By James Perloff
(henrymakow.com)

I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where on April 19, 1775, a force of British redcoats, on their way to Concord to confiscate rebel munitions, encountered a small force of militiamen.  Suddenly, “the shot heard round the world” was fired.  In the ensuing skirmish, eight colonists were killed, and nine wounded.  The British suffered one wounded.  This was a causus bellum for the American Revolution. 

As explained in detail my online article The Secrets Buried at Lexington Green,  Americans were deceived. It was proclaimed everywhere that the British had committed an unprovoked massacre in Lexington.  The truth is individuals in concealed locations fired on the British first.
 
Though most Americans today recognize
him only as a face on beer bottles, the revolution’s mastermind in
Massachusetts was Sam Adams, whom biographer John Miller called the
“pioneer in propaganda.”

Adams, left,  Temporary Secretary of the 1774 Philadelphia Congress, had secured a pledge from delegates that, should warfare erupt between Massachusetts and British troops, the other colonies would aid Massachusetts.  But this carried a stipulation:  They would only help IF THE BRITISH FIRED FIRST. 

By mid-April 1775 the SECOND Continental Congress was 3 weeks away.  Sam Adams desperately needed a “British fired first” incident to bring to the Congress, lest passions for revolution and war wane.


Here is a HIGHLY condensed summary of my article.

• The night before the battle, Joseph Warren dispatched Paul Revere on his famous ride from Boston.  Warren sent another rider, William Dawes, and both arrived at the Lexington house where John Hancock (left)  and Samuel Adams–leaders of the revolution in Massachusetts—were staying. Adams had recruited smuggler John Hancock, wealthiest man in Massachusetts, to be the revolution’s financial angel.

What history books omit: Warren was Grand Master of St. Andrew’s Freemasonic Lodge in Boston; Revere, Dawes and Hancock belonged to that Lodge.  After the war, Revere became Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.

• During the French and Indian War, colonists and redcoats fought on the same side.  Britain’s national debt nearly doubled by the war’s end (1763), and Parliament felt British taxpayers should not bear it alone. It felt colonists should contribute since they were the war’s main beneficiaries.  Britain’s willingness to repeal each revenue measure (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townsend Acts) shows more amenability toward colonial protests than commonly believed.

• Adams was instrumental in changing Americans’ perception of redcoats to “the bad guys.”  Adams became Boston’s virtual dictator, controlling it through organized mobs.  “Tories” (British loyalists) had their homes looted and even destroyed, and their bodies tarred and feathered.  These mobs could not be brought to justice.  Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson said he doubted if there was “a man of greater malignity of heart, or who less scruples [in using] any measure ever so criminal to accomplish his purposes” than Sam Adams.

 • Contrary to what Americans were told, British troops came to Boston in 1768 to restore order.   Captain Evelyn wrote his clergyman father in England: “Our arrival has in a great degree restored that liberty they have been so long deprived of, even liberty of speech and security to their persons and property, which has for years past been at the mercy of a most villainous mob.”

• Adam’s antipathy to these troops led to the orchestrated “Boston Massacre” (1770), in which a mob of several hundred attacked nine British soldiers until they fired in self-defense.  Collected depositions, and Paul Revere’s infamously misrepresentative print, portrayed it as unprovoked slaughter of innocents.

(Post war 1886 depiction; what a contrast to 1775′s!)

• Contrary to common sense–and behavior of other militias (who fired behind trees and walls) –the grossly outnumbered Lexington militia stood openly in parade formation. The British, marching into the trap, had no choice but to confront them.