Posted on 01/26/2015 1:01:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...Paul Revere, born in Boston in 1734... After the death of his father in 1754, Paul enlisted in the provincial army to fight in the French and Indian War...
When the war was over, he returned to Boston to take over his father's silversmith business, only to fall into financial difficulties during the Stamp Act of 1765. Frustrated by this gave him cause to join the Sons of Liberty...
On the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren sent Revere to send the signal to Charlestown that the British troops were on the move... His journey ended in Lexington where he met other Sons of Liberty John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
Afterwards, after meeting up with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott... Revere would be captured by the British, but his comrades would be more successful in their journeys...
Unlike the more famous names of Revere, Dawes, and Prescott, Israel Bissell (also known to history as both "Isaac" or "Trail" Bissell) was the man who made the longest ride in mid April 1775, starting around the 13th of that month. According to legend, a professional post rider for the American colonists, Bissell rode four days and six hours along the Old Post Road, covering a total of 345 miles in that time. According to the story, he shouted along the way "To arms, to arms, the war has begun," in the sensationalist manner which would bring the most attention, and most likely make the best newspaper headlines.
Bissell began his journey in Watertown, Massachusetts, just to the west of Boston, and drove his first horse so hard that it died just outside of Worcester, Massachusetts. He continued down to Philadelphia warning the militias along the way...
Sybil Ludington... would not make her journey until April 26, 1777...
(Excerpt) Read more at constitutionfacts.com ...
Yeah, two years after the actual ride by Revere et al, a teen girl (who probably got married before age 18 in those days) was sent into the cold and wet by her White Patriarch bully of a father to push the gun nut agenda. /s
Seriously, I’m glad to know about her, but her inclusion in a well-known event that took place two years earlier is just anachronistic feminazi b.s.
His State of the Union addresses were actually just written reports, he didn’t make speeches if he could avoid it.
Great story. Thanks for the ping.
...just anachronistic feminazi b.s
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I was thinking along those lines when I read that part.
My pleasure.
:’)
Whoa, bad reading on my part. I thought she rode her alarm one week later, NOT two years later. You’re right, it’s 21st century PC accolades.
That said, it’s interesting that additional alarm riders were being sent out across the countryside for specific threats by the British to towns (no surprise there given that was the only means of communication) and she was sent out by her father at age 16. I wonder what Dad was doing to send his daughter on such a dangerous mission.
I was also wondering how her father could give her a commission on April 26, 1775 when the Continental Army was created by Congress two years later on June 14, 1775 and Washington elected CIC a day later.
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