Basically, the sheriff and town officials were corrupt and throwing the town elections and the people got tired of it and decided to take up arms
against them and won.
i know ill be put on a list for posting this, but eff em.
nobody else has replied to this yet, so i figured i would thank you for posting that video! I had never heard of the Battle of Athens until you
posted about it, so it was a cool history lesson for me. thanks again! S+F
I saw the video, then thought it must be Hollywood fiction but checked Wiki anyway and sure enough! It's there too! They never mentioned this in
American history classes.
So, I came to see if ATS had anything on it and got your thread first (though, there are others too).