Castelnuovo (Bosnia) and Lexington (Massachusetts)

The places are close to 90° apart from each other, so close that if you add exactly 90° W along the same equatorial parallel plane to the coordinates of Castelnuovo or Herceg Novi, you land between Acton and Bloomsbury, 11.9 miles being the distance between Lexington and Acton.

Now, each place was the place of a battle. The siege of Castelnuovo ended on Aug. 7th 1539. The battle of Lextington and Concord took place on April 19th 1775.

Date calculator allowed me to verify that, between these dates, there are 2828 months and 12 days.

In Castelnuovo, Machín de Munguía was killed by the Ottomans. The night before Lexington battle, Paul Revere was fortunately not killed by two English commissars.

Perhaps a reason to sing "El pendón estrellado"?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Feast of the Sacred Blood
1.VII.2025