Voices of the Revolution: The Five Riders [Four + One]

Constitution Facts ^ | Oak Hill Publishing

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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[SunkenCiv]

His State of the Union addresses were actually just written reports, he didn’t make speeches if he could avoid it.

[Bigg Red]

Great story. Thanks for the ping.

[Bigg Red]

...just anachronistic feminazi b.s

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I was thinking along those lines when I read that part.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.