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On This Day in History 1775: Paul Revere and William Dawes warn of British attack
Posted on 4/18/18 at 10:58 am
Posted on 4/18/18 at 10:58 am
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On this day in 1775, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Minutemen.
By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government had approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders formed a shadow revolutionary government and trained militias to prepare for armed conflict with the British troops occupying Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, received instructions from Great Britain to seize all stores of weapons and gunpowder accessible to the American insurgents. On April 18, he ordered British troops to march against Concord and Lexington.
The Boston Patriots had been preparing for such a British military action for some time, and, upon learning of the British plan, Revere and Dawes set off across the Massachusetts countryside. They took separate routes in case one of them was captured: Dawes left the city via the Boston Neck peninsula and Revere crossed the Charles River to Charlestown by boat. As the two couriers made their way, Patriots in Charlestown waited for a signal from Boston informing them of the British troop movement. As previously agreed, one lantern would be hung in the steeple of Boston’s Old North Church, the highest point in the city, if the British were marching out of the city by Boston Neck, and two lanterns would be hung if they were crossing the Charles River to Cambridge. Two lanterns were hung, and the armed Patriots set out for Lexington and Concord accordingly. Along the way, Revere and Dawes roused hundreds of Minutemen, who armed themselves and set out to oppose the British.
Revere arrived in Lexington shortly before Dawes, but together they warned Adams and Hancock and then set out for Concord. Along the way, they were joined by Samuel Prescott, a young Patriot who had been riding home after visiting a lady friend. Early on the morning of April 19, a British patrol captured Revere, and Dawes lost his horse, forcing him to walk back to Lexington on foot. However, Prescott escaped and rode on to Concord to warn the Patriots there. After being roughly questioned for an hour or two, Revere was released when the patrol heard Minutemen alarm guns being fired on their approach to Lexington.
About 5 a.m. on April 19, 700 British troops under Major John Pitcairn arrived at the town to find a 77-man-strong colonial militia under Captain John Parker waiting for them on Lexington’s common green. Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment’s hesitation, the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead and 10 others were wounded; only one British soldier was injured. The American Revolution had begun.
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Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:03 am to L.A.
Do those guys know how powerful and equipped the British forces are? A bunch of crazy militia lovers with their muskets don't stand a chance.
Idiots.
Idiots.
This post was edited on 4/18/18 at 11:04 am
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:03 am to L.A.
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On This Day in History 1775: Paul Revere and William Dawes warn of British attack
Yep, and they are rolling over in their graves as well because of what our country is becoming with the dems and the sjw's
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:46 am to L.A.
Paul Revere also dabbled in dentistry. He developed the wiring that kept a false tooth in your mouth.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:47 am to L.A.
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"The British are coming!"
Contrary to popular belief, PR didn't actually say that.
Fun fact.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:49 am to L.A.
Revere's original metalworks company still exists today as Revere Copper. It is now based in Rome, NY.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 11:52 am to L.A.
Hip hip hooray For the 2nd Amendment!
Minutemen Highly approve of the right to keep and bear arms!
Minutemen Highly approve of the right to keep and bear arms!
Posted on 4/18/18 at 12:22 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Contrary to popular belief, PR didn't actually say that.
Fun fact.
Fact....I believe his words were "shite's goin' down"
Posted on 4/18/18 at 12:29 pm to Wtodd
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Fact....I believe his words were "shite's goin' down"
"GDFR"
--Paul Revere
Posted on 4/18/18 at 12:48 pm to Wtodd
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....I believe his words were "shite's goin' down"
It is my understanding he was shouting, "shite fidin' to go down fo reelz."
Later when confronted by British troops he claimed, "Why y'all repressin' on me. Wad I do. I dindu nuffin."
Posted on 4/18/18 at 1:38 pm to L.A.
A few years ago, I watched a Mike Rowe show called "How Booze Built America," in which he explains a theory that Paul Revere may have gotten drunk while warning from tavern to tavern.
Mike Rowe's "How Booze Built America"
Mike Rowe's "How Booze Built America"
Posted on 4/18/18 at 2:18 pm to Dignan
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Or that Johnny Appleseed was actually creating farms to sell hard apple cider?
The apples in the US at that time were unfit for eating. They were extremely sour. Their only use was for cider. The apples you buy in the store today weren't developed till much later.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 2:40 pm to Dignan
quote:Perfectly understandable under the circumstances.
in which he explains a theory that Paul Revere may have gotten drunk while warning from tavern to tavern.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 2:48 pm to Dignan
The per capita amount of alcohol consumed in the 18th and 19th century is astonishing. We're talking multiple gallons for every man, woman and child.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 2:50 pm to Jim Rockford
Well, it had less bacteria in it than the water.
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