[Pharmboy]

Incredible story...

[Pharmboy]

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[hershey]

Incredible is right. If that happened today, the MSM would rip Margaret Gage to pieces.

[NZerFromHK]

Juts noticed a funny thing: it is interesting that the Daily Telegraph uses the term "American Revolution" rather than "the Americsn War of Independence" that is traditionally used for the event on its side of the pond.

[SouthernFreebird]

She was an American and banished to England?

[F-117A]

Bump!

[conservativeharleyguy]

Dammit, I'm outraged!!!

The Telegraph must be held accountable for frivolously "outing" a key U.S. intelligence agent. They've seriously compromised her safety.

OOPS!!

Sorry, wrong century.

[silverleaf]

Thank You Mrs Gage.

PS: Want to bet there was more to her decision than "patriotism"?

[Fintan]

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[kalee]

Thanks for posting this. I plan to share it with my DAR chapter at our Feb meeting.

[Christopher Lincoln]

As far as I know, historians have turned up no evidence that Mrs. Gage actually gave information to the patriots. Gage may have thought his plans were a deep dark secret, but there was ample evidence of what the British were up to.

If the story is true, then Gage was a fool who destroyed his marriage for nothing.

[GreenLanternCorps]

More proof that the American Revolution/War of Independence was in truth a devastating Civil War. We tend to forget now how split the colonies were.

Many towns and families were ripped apart on the subject. Not just Gen. & Mrs. Gage, but Benjamin Franklin and his son. Franklin's son was ,IIRC, a Major in the British Army (60th Regt. of Foot, the Royal Americans, I think.)

The results of the war were a water shed moment in human history and stuck a strong blow in the evolution of human liberty and constitutional government. But like the English Civil War before it and the American Civil War/War Between the States, that came after, the human toll in both blood and broken families, was devastating.

[Paige]

This article is historically incorrect. There were two other riders with Revere. Dawes and Prescott and they did not say 'The British are Coming.'
They said the 'Regulars are coming.' At the time in history, most of the Colonist still considered themselves British. The British military was called the Regulars; thus, the people were warned the "Regulars are coming."


Here is the whole story:
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1261.html

http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.shtml

[SunkenCiv]

banished his wife to England

That'll teach her. ;')

[WHATNEXT?]

Thanks Pharmboy for the "new to me" information. I don't remember reading about this in ALL the history books I've read.

[Professional Engineer]

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