The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.  The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay ... They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America ... A British officer (probably Pitcairn, but accounts are uncertain, as it may also have been Lieutenant William Sutherland) then rode forward, waving his sword, and called out for the assembled militia to disperse, and may also have ordered them to 'lay down your arms, you damned rebels!'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord
True American patriots were fighting for the right to keep and bear arms before there even was a Second Amendment. No: we damned rebels will NOT lay down our arms. Happy Patriot Day!Â
