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STRONG MILITARY PRESENCE IS
NECESSARY FOR A REVOLUTION
Our Leader observes:
Eventually, any revolution may find military action necessary
to resist tyrannical oppression. In America, on April 19, 1775,
colonial militia engaged British troops at the towns of Lexington
and Concord. Just months later, the new American Congress named
George Washington commander in chief of a volunteer army. In January
of this year, 1793, France suffered attack by the armies of six
countries: Prussia, Austria, Sardinia, England, Holland, and Spain.
To resist such invaders, the government in France has taken the
momentous step of establishing a military draft of all her young
unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25.
Inspired by the revolution in France, slaves in the French colony
of Saint Domingue in the West Indies rebelled against their masters.
In August of this year, the governor of Saint Domingue, Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax, abolished slavery in the colony. He then gave 30,000
rifles to the former slaves, saying, "This is your freedom; the
one who will take this rifle back will want to enslave you anew."
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