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==19 APRIL 1775 - BATTLES of LEXINGTON and CONCORD - #RevolutionaryWar

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGINS!==

Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith led a brigade of 700 British soldiers to Concord, Massachusetts, to search for weapons and ammunition. On the way, Major John Pitcairn and the advanced guard of 300 redcoats encountered 80 men of Captain John Parker's militia company on the Lexington village green.

Pitcairn demanded the militia disperse. As Parker ordered his men to comply someone unknown fired a shot. The British deployed, fired a volley, and charged with fixed bayonets in a short fight that killed eight and wounded ten Americans. After their officers restored order, the redcoats resumed marching to Concord, where Colonel James Barrett had mustered that area's militia and minuteman companies before taking a position on a hill across the Old North Bridge about a mile from town.

As the British searched the town, companies from neighboring communities arrived and formed into battalions. A detachment of redcoats arrived at the bridge, part of which crossed to search Barrett's farm while the rest guarded the span. When the militiamen saw smoke and believed the enemy was burning Concord, Barret ordered his men to load muskets, but only fire if fired upon, and they advanced in column toward the bridge. Captain Walter Laurie's command of three companies

• 95 nervous redcoats

• opened fire on about 400 approaching militiamen with a ragged volley that killed two and wounded four Americans.

In response, Major John Buttrick excitedly yelled, "Fire, for God's sake, fellow soldiers, fire!"

Their return volley killed three and wounded thirteen British soldiers, including four officers or sergeants. The British retreated back to Lexington where they were reinforced but continued the retreat to Boston in a running fight.

At the end of the day, they were besieged in Boston and the Revolutionary War had begun.

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Any Boatfags?

We all panicked when 40 ships were parked outside our ports, but look outside the port of Shanghai right now. This is what the lockdowns did there

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https://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2022/04/wag-moskva.html

Wag the Moskva

lamecherry.blogspot.com/2022/04/wag-moskva.html

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

Thee above photo is from NPR of the Moskva.

Ukrainian Neptune missiles sank Russia's …

1100 x 824

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15…

If one does a search for the Moskva, one finds a constant mirror image of the above ship. Each has the 121 painted on both sides as this is what this Slava Class Cruiser looks like. There are four of them. One is unfinished in Ukraine, the Admiral Ustinov serves in the Northern Fleet, the Varyag serves in the Pacific Fleet and the Moskva serves in the Black Sea Fleet.

The Lame Cherry is going to show you some photos of the damaged ship from the links below and show you something no one else is noting.

First Photos Of Mortally-Damaged 'Moskva' After

Ukrainian Missile Hits

Recreation Of The Ukraine Attack On The 'Moskva'

Catherine Austin Fitts - We Are At War Right Now

The Lame Cherry has highlighted some areas for you to compare in the real Moskva.

The first photo below in the set has the ship number 121. The other two ships have no numbers.

The first radar tower or bridge is square on the Moskva. The second photo has not any square bridge tower, nor does the last burning ship.

Lastly in the first photo, the aft section of the Moskva is straight. In the second and third photo, the aft of those ships has been cut away.

In the second photo the bridge tower does not match the first Moskva. The aft hanger deck compartment does not match the first Moskva and the 3rd photo's compartment shows a more rectangular compartment to the more square second photo.

In assessment, the top photo is the real Moskva. There is record of this ship undergoing repairs, but repairs are not complete structural changes of bridge and aft compartments.

The real Moskva in photo one is the real Moskva. It appears that the ships in Photo 2 and 3 are like class ships, but different than the Moskva. The "sinking Moskva" though does not match the second photo as it looks like a non completed ship.

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As I was typing this exclusive, this story popped up from India.

India-Backed Site Claims Video of Moskva Ship on Fire Is Recycled

The 3 active Slava class ships all look like the Moskva. They are mirror images of each other. Thee only Slava that looks anything like the burning ship in the cut away is the one in the Ukrainian port called the Ukrayina

That ship has a cut away aft section too and resembles the incomplete bridge structure.

Newsweek via the Indian press states:

One video making its rounds on social media claimed to capture the dramatic aftermath of the Ukrainian missile strike. However, WebQoof, The Quint's fact-checking service, compared the viral video with older footage. It found the video claiming to be the Moskva was actually from 2019 and shows a ship flying the flag of Tanzania in the Black Sea.

I have informed all of you that the Ukrainians like like Goddamn dogs all the time. Thee American press is fed lies from the Pentagon and State.

The photos stating the burning and listing ship is the Moskva are not the same ship as the Moskva which was confirmed.

Russia has produced some puzzling situations too in showing only 100 sailors "off the Moskva" for a ceremony, and not mentioning where the hundreds of others are. Russia is quite capable of gaming people in their nation and the world. Word had it that Ukraine was using Elon Musk's SatNet to coordinate this attack.

It puzzles the Lame Cherry with Russian reports of loose Ukraine mines in the Black Sea why the Russian ships would be operating in that kind of danger and with Neptune missiles why the Moskva would be ordered within range of those missiles.

At this moment, I would guess that Russia either obtained some Ukrainian derelict or Russia had somewhere an unfinished ship, and got it running or towed it to Odessa, as a decoy to be shot at by Ukraine, knowing they were being goaded by the United States to take out the Russian flag ship.

The British and Americans used sunken ships as propaganda to con thee American public into two world wars. It would be possible Russia used a fake incident to galvanize Russians to an escalation of severe tactics to finish off Ukraine or perhaps to serve up an atomic counterstrike against a British naval group.

Something is not adding up in this. I do not believe the Moskva was hit nor is it sunk on the bottom of the Black Sea.

Each day thee American People are being suckered by everyone on sunset closer to being nuked.

This is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

Nuff Said

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https://www.newsweek.com/india-backed-site-claims-video-moskva-ship-fire-recycled-1698764

India-Backed Site Claims Video of Moskva Ship on Fire Is Recycled

newsweek.com/india-backed-site-claims-video-moskva-ship-fire-recycled-1698764

Jake ThomasApril 18, 2022

A video circulating online that claims to show a flame-engulfed Russian warship sinking after being struck by a Ukrainian missile is fake, an Indian fact-checking website has determined.

The infrared video showing smoke billowing from the doomed ship is rehashed footage from years earlier and is not the famed Moskva naval cruiser Ukrainian forces took credit for sinking, The Quint reported on Monday. While Ukraine and Russia continue to offer differing accounts for the ship's damage, the debunked video is the latest example of misinformation that has clouded the conflict.

Ukraine's military last week proclaimed that it had successfully launched Neptune missiles at the Moskva, badly damaging the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and striking a major blow against the invading country's military. Russian military officials blamed damage to the Soviet-era ship on a fire caused by the detonation of ammunition that occurred while it was being towed.

One video making its rounds on social media claimed to capture the dramatic aftermath of the Ukrainian missile strike. However, WebQoof, The Quint's fact-checking service, compared the viral video with older footage. It found the video claiming to be the Moskva was actually from 2019 and shows a ship flying the flag of Tanzania in the Black Sea.

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"We matched the visuals from the 2019 video and compared it with the viral video and found that a green screen was added and the original video was flipped," according to WebQoof.

Referencing past reporting, WebQoof reports that the original video shows two ships with Indian, Turkish and Libyan crewmembers catching fire in the strategically significant Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea from Russia. The fire broke out on the ships, both flying Tanzania's flag, killing 14 sailors. One ship was a liquified natural gas carrier and the other a tanker.

Moskva was made famous early in the Russia-Ukraine War after Ukrainian border guards risked their lives by defiantly cursing the ship's crew and refusing to surrender. Following the ship's demise, other videos, including one by a top Ukrainian official, emerged online.

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Another short clip purports to show the Moskva sinking in the Black Sea. Sidharth Kaushal, a sea power research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, confirmed to The Independent that the video is of Moskva.

Questions have continued to swirl around the sinking of the Moskva.

The Kremlin has yet to publicly acknowledge any casualties and said its roughly 500 personnel were safely evacuated. But authorities have told families of crewmembers that their relatives are "missing in action." Russians have taken to social media to question the whereabouts of their missing family members.

The Moskva is the third-largest in Russia's fleet, and was reportedly being used as a weapons store for its military's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The loss of the ship has been described by experts as a major setback for its offensive, which has reportedly turned its focus to Ukraine's port cities in the Black Sea.

Newsweek reached out to the Pentagon for comment.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-dodges-questions-on-missing-moskva-warship-crew

Kremlin Dodges Questions on Missing Moskva Warship Crew

thedailybeast.com/kremlin-dodges-questions-on-missing-moskva-warship-crew

April 19, 2022

Russia

DENIAL

As more and more families call BS on the Kremlin’s claims that all sailors survived, Dmitry Peskov says “we are not authorized to release anything.”

Reuters

The Kremlin refused to answer mounting questions on Tuesday about the fate of sailors on board its most powerful warship after it was reportedly sunk by Ukrainian missiles last week, claiming it is “not authorized” to do so.

While Ukraine said several crew members on board the Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, were killed, Moscow has denied that its ship was downed by Ukraine, claiming it was badly damaged after an “ammunition” fire, and repeatedly insisted that all 500 crew members were safely evacuated before it went down “in a storm.”

Amid numerous reports of Moskva crew members’ families searching for their missing loved ones and publicly mourning dead sailors on social media, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, immediately shut down all questioning on Tuesday. “All communication is only through the Defense Ministry,” he said, adding that “we are not authorized to release anything.”

Family members of missing crew members have accused the defense ministry of trying to “hush up” the deaths to prevent further humiliation for the Russian military after several setbacks in Ukraine. According to accounts of family members published on social media and Russian opposition news sites, several of those on board the Moskva were conscripts, a group which Putin had vowed would be excluded from the war in Ukraine.

Among them was 20-year-old Yegor Shkrebets, a military conscript whose father, Dmitry Shkrebets, took to the social media site Vkontakte to blast military leadership for their “brazen and cynical lie” that everyone on board was evacuated.

He said he’d been told directly by commanders that his son was listed as missing without a trace.

“A conscript who is not supposed to be taking part in the war is listed as missing without a trace. You guys, he disappeared without a trace in the open sea?”!!!

“Why are you, the officers, still alive, and my son, a conscript soldier, has died?” he wrote.

“I will devote the rest of my life to making sure the truth will prevail in this story,” he wrote in the since-deleted post.

His wife, Yegor Shkrebets’ mother, told The Insider that she and her husband had visited a military hospital in search of their son and seen about 200 wounded servicemen being treated there.

She said her husband had asked a military commander where their son was, to which he replied: “Well, in the sea somewhere.”

The BBC’s Russian service identified yet another sailor on Tuesday whose mother said she was told he was killed onboard the Moskva.

Tamara Grudinina said her 21-year-old son Sergei Grudinin had been sent onto the ship immediately after training.

Grudinina said she had phoned the Russian Defense Ministry’s hotline for family members right after learning the ship had sunk, and she was told her son was “alive and healthy and would get in touch at the first opportunity.”

But a short time later, a man identifying himself as a commander of the warship contacted her and said her son had “basically sunk together with the ship.”