 As you guys know, I've talked about this before. April 19th is coming up. Who knows what April 19th is? Patriots Day. April 19th is the real Patriots Day. They're trying to change Patriots Day now to 9-11. And I think part of the reason they're doing that is to try to change history, to get our minds off of the time when it was necessary for the American people to take up arms against their own government. But anyway, regardless of that, Patriots Day is April 19th. There is, Patriots Day is a big, big day for Apple Seed. As a matter of fact, Apple Seed exists because of Patriots Day. Or because what Patriots Day is, April 19th, 1775, that was the most important day in American history. It was the day that the shot heard around the world. It was the day Paul Revere's ride, Lexington and Concord. And it was when the British government came for the guns and the Americans said, no. But with a couple of things represented by April 19th, one is the marksmanship. It turned out on that day that Americans were much, much better marksmen than the British. And that became obvious on April 19th. So one purpose of Apple Seed is to continue the tradition of marksmanship, which is to a large extent forgotten art in America today. The other reason for Apple Seed is to teach American heritage. And we focus on April 19th. As a matter of fact, our history that we teach at Apple Seed is all about the events, because there's so much to happen on that day, April 19th, 1775. So there will be an Apple Seed shoot all across the country, including the one in Rosebud, Missouri. And I need to know who wants the car pool. Did that marky still going with me? Yeah, I haven't. Well, anyway, speaking of April 19th, since we are coming up on April 19th, it's only fitting that we spend just a minute on April 19th. At Apple Seed, we talk about dangerous old men, because there are a lot of stories that occurred. And you've heard me tell, like Samuel Whittemore, you've heard me tell stories about some of these dangerous old men, Jason Russell. Today I've got another dangerous old men story to tell you. A lot of the militia at that time consisted of men from 16 to 66 years old. There were a lot of men who were older than that, who were not actually no longer in the militia. When the alarm went out, these men were not going to just sit at home and say, I'm too old. These men went out. And they actually turned out to be some of the most important fighters on that day, because most of them were veterans. They had fought in wars before. And so they were experienced. And a lot of times when the young men ran, these guys stayed there and fought. Well, the British sent out two groups of soldiers to go to Lexington and Concord. The first one was led by Lieutenant Colonel Francis. And the second one left a few hours after that. It was led by Colonel Percy. And he was just coming after Francis to support him. And it turned out that he arrived just in time. But that's another part of the story. But it was very fortunate for the British that he did do that, because by the time he met the first group, they were in a lot of trouble. Of course, they were all in a lot of trouble anyway. But anyway, Percy thought very poorly of the Americans. He thought they were all cowards. He didn't think the Americans were going to be a threat at all. He just saw the Americans as a bunch of backwoodsmen cowards. And he was to learn a lesson that day, of course. But when Percy left Boston to go to Lexington, he failed to take an ammunition supplies, wagons. Normally they carry wagons of additional ammunition. And he didn't think that he needed them. Every soldier had the customary 36 rounds. They had two artillery pieces. And they had a few cannonballs in the little boxes that were on the cannon. He thought that was going to end up, because he didn't think very much of the Americans. Well, after he left, the General Gage, who was the governor of, he's the British governor at that time of Massachusetts in Boston, General Gage decided that he had better send a couple of supply wagons after Percy. So he sent two supply wagons to catch up with Percy. These wagons were, there were 13 soldiers plus an officer. And the soldiers he sent were Grenadiers. I don't know if you know what a Grenadiers are. They get the name from Grenade. And Grenadiers throw these heavy iron balls, grenades with gunpowder in them. They had to be tall, and so they could throw it far. And they had to be strong so they could throw these heavy things. So these were the elite troops of the British army, the Grenadiers. They were large. They were kind of like our Navy sills. Well, anyway, he sent these two wagons of Grenadiers, 13 Grenadiers plus an officer in charge of them. And they were met by this group of 11 elderly men. They were known as the old men of monotomy. They were from monotomy, of course. And they were all over 60 years old. And they were led by David Lampson. And David Lampson was described in the writings at that day as a mulatto. All right. That means for you who don't know what mulatto means. It means he's African-American, essentially, mixed breed. And he was the leader of this group. But what they did was they set up an ambush. And they stopped these two wagons of these 13 Grenadiers. And they stopped them. And they said, turn over your ammunition to us. Well, these things, they didn't take them seriously at all. They just charged straight ahead. And so these men shot their two lead horses and also shot the two sergeants driving the wagons, killed them, and also wounded the officer. Within the other soldiers, they thought better of this situation. And they decided that they were going to run. And they all took off running. And they stopped only long enough to throw their muskets in a pond because they were afraid that if they were caught armed, they were going to be killed. So they didn't want to be caught armed. And these are Grenadiers, remember, the elite British troops. So they threw their muskets in a pond. And they were looking for one to surrender to who wouldn't kill them. And they found this old woman. And her name was Mother Ruth Batharick. And she was impoverished. She was so poor that she was out picking dandelions for her food for that day, just picking wild greens. And they begged her, take them. Take them in. And so she did. So she took them. And she took them to the local militia captain and turned them over to him. And she said, if you ever make it back to England alive, I want you to tell that King George that six of his Grenadiers were captured by an old bath woman. Well, it actually turned out that they did make it back to England alive. And word did get around. And some of the newspapers in England who were against the war in America, some of these newspapers published, if one old Yankee woman can capture six of the King's Grenadiers, how many soldiers is it going to take to conquer America? That's the story of Mother Ruth Batharick.