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Who Was Paul Revere and Why Should You Care?
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| February 20, 2017
| Eric Metaxas
Posted on 02/20/2017 12:19:29 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/20/2017 12:43:52 PM PST
by
stormer
To: EveningStar
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
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posted on
02/20/2017 12:44:32 PM PST
by
HippyLoggerBiker
(Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
To: EveningStar
“The Mercury of the Revolution” David Hackett Fischer
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posted on
02/20/2017 12:45:42 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/20/2017 12:54:40 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: EveningStar
He was Muslim refugee, illegally came from Chile and grand parents were black.
To: stormer
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posted on
02/20/2017 1:05:39 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: EveningStar
I have always thought that the cry "The British are coming! The British are coming!" was something that was added much later, after independence.
After all, when Paul Revere made his ride, all of the colonists were British.
I've always believed that his alarm was more specific: "The Regulars are coming!" or maybe "The Redcoats are coming!" or something that implied that it was British regular military forces that were on their way.
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posted on
02/20/2017 1:12:10 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: EveningStar
In before....
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posted on
02/20/2017 1:29:16 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
To: EveningStar
As a Canadian learning pre-colonial American history really for the first time, it is very interesting. All those locations he rode to are actually what is now just greater Boston. When I was a kid I had this idea that Revere trans versed the entire colonial America. Of course roads as they were at his time made what seems a short journey to us something very arduous.
To: BlueLancer
That thought comes to mind when watching AMC’s “Turn”. The Americans all have well, American accents, but I think truthfully at that time most would be English. If they were Dutch, they would have a Dutch accent. There wasn't really yet an American accent.
To: Sam Gamgee
I’ve read some things regarding accents of the period, that would seem to indicate that what we know today to be British, really wasn’t back then. I don’t know. How could anyone alive today really “know”.
To: BlueLancer
To: AFreeBird
To: EveningStar
If you owned a piece of silverware he produced I guarantee you would care.
To: EveningStar
The liberal politics up here sucks. But the history is fantastic...I am a history buff, and I get to see stuff like this all the time:
This is just a few miles from my house:
And I love the PragerU stuff...I plug it every chance I get!
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posted on
02/20/2017 5:13:51 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: Sam Gamgee
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posted on
02/20/2017 5:14:29 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: Sam Gamgee
"...All those locations he rode to are actually what is now just greater Boston..." I have never heard anyone around here refer to Concord as Greater Boston, but I suppose it is how someone defines it.
It is pretty impressive that he rode that distance in the dark on that horse, and it is easy to imagine the misery of the British as they tried to retreat back to Boston with the Colonials picking at them every step of the way.
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posted on
02/20/2017 5:20:13 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: EveningStar
I hate to be the one to tear down this American legend, but Revere faced court martial for cowardice as a result of his performance at the Pebnobscot bay expedition. Gen. Wadsworth was his C.O., he brought the charges, and his grandson was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Penobscot Bay expedition was Americas worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbour. It’s a long story. Hero? Marginal sort of, but the making of him a hero was politics.
History buffs will appriciate Bernard Cornwall’s “The Fort” for a detailed account.
To: wardaddy
That's not Paul Revere.
That would be Mark Lindsay, who had/has a decent solo career:
https://youtu.be/0n00BsxP2e8
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posted on
02/20/2017 5:57:59 PM PST
by
daler
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