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The Means of Self-Defense

250 years ago, the governor took the gunpowder

Arthur Bloom
Apr 21, 2025
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Williamsburg gunpowder magazine, via Joe Shlabotnik / Flickr

It was a Murray who misgoverned Virginians so badly they were compelled to revolt, though the 4th Earl of Dunmore is not known to have written any unreadable neocon tracts like YouTube’s top genocide tourist. Within 48 hours of the British raid on colonial arms at Concord, which happened 250 ye…

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