Someone was talking about his ride the other day - maybe on Rush. The ride was incredibly long and through the night. Remember - no street lights, flash lights, nothing, etc. Through the night on a horse.
There were also two other riders. So appropriate today. Sadly the public cares more about watching ball games and reality shows on TV. This also seems so “quaint.” These people risked everything 235 years ago.
Evil dems, liberals and RINOs.
“There were also two other riders.”
William Dawes and Samuel Prescott were the riders that made it to Acton and Concord. It was Prescott who alerted the Acton Minutemen...Abner Hosmer, of the Acton Minutemen, was the first casualty of the battle of the bridge in Concord...I used to march this route every Patriot’s Day (yes, in MA it is still a holiday) and lived in Concord and Acton. I wish it were celebrated more. Revere was captured in Lincoln and Dawes made it to Concord after escaping a British patrol. He never made it to Concord, but it was an epic poem.
It’s an exciting story.
The other two riders were William Dawes and Doctor Samuel Prescott. Paul Revere had made quite a few similar ridesas far away as Pennsylvania; however those missions have become obscure. Nevertheless, on the night before the clash at Lexingtin and Concord, both Revere and William Dawes had been intercepted. Only Doctor Prescott completed the ride.
On evenings when the weather was good, Revere would close up his silversmithy, take to horse and ride at a full gallop through the farm roads in back of Boston. If you were walking down a country lane during the evening, and someone passed you on horseback racing flat-out, it was safe to call out, "Good evening, Mr. Revere!"
When the brothers at the St. Andrews Masonic Lodge were looking for volunteers to ride as couriers, I have this vision of Revere holding up his hand and saying, "Me! Me! I'll do it!"