In times like these, there is high value in remembering.
On this very night - March 4th, 250 years ago - Geo. Washington and his men did what no one believed possible and few today are even aware: under cover of darkness and the rolling sound of cannonade they fortified and occupied the high ground south of Boston harbor and in so doing forced the withdrawal of Gen. Howe and the British troops holding the city. Howe himself said that his entire army couldn’t have done in 3 months what the colonialists did in one night.
Washington knew, beyond planning and logistics, what would really be necessary for success in this audacious effort: character and resolve.
“…every temporal advantage and comfort to us, and our posterity, depends upon the vigor of our exertions; in short, freedom or slavery must be the result of our conduct; there can therefore be no greater inducement to men to behave well.”
In times like these, there is high value in remembering.
