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Who Was Paul Revere and Why Should You Care?
PragerU ^ | February 20, 2017 | Eric Metaxas

Posted on 02/20/2017 12:19:29 PM PST by EveningStar

Do you know who Paul Revere is? He is one of America's key historical figures. Want to know what he did? Eric Metaxas, New York Times #1 bestselling author, shares the remarkable story.

(Excerpt) Read more at prageru.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; ericmetaxas; history; paulrevere
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To: Big Red Badger

It is indeed! I love it. I can walk in these places and nearly imagine what happened.


41 posted on 02/21/2017 9:10:40 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: wardaddy

“That’s an older generation southern accent of the educated class”

My dad’s era. Interesting that while he grew up in Mississippi along the Alabama border that his speech is similar to those two Virginians. As is his demeanor. As you say it’s probably an educated class distinction. To know them is to see what southern gentlemen once were.

My dad told that his father never spoke with the country twang often heard in that part of the South. He was an intelligent man despite not having had the opportunity to attend college.


42 posted on 02/21/2017 12:26:15 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Well, I tell out of state people I work “right outside Boston” because it is easier for them to visualize...but if people in state ask me where I live, I tell them I live halfway between 495 and 128...:)

They usually don’t know the name of the town...:)

Framingham...well, that is a little further outside Boston!


43 posted on 02/21/2017 12:55:29 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Pelham

Excellent book!


44 posted on 02/21/2017 1:35:33 PM PST by 2sheds
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To: rlmorel
I'm on Ep 7 or so and was starting to get bored, but maybe I will plug along. I am glad it does a balanced job painting the British in a bad light but not making them into characterisers.
45 posted on 02/21/2017 2:02:49 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: rlmorel

Just shows my general ignorance as a Canadian who has never been East, except to Florida.

I love the fact that the Patriots started knocking off officers from their horses using snipers. Must have been the fear of God into the Brits.


46 posted on 02/21/2017 2:04:56 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Paal Gulli

Very interesting. I’ve always remarked that Americans don’t have class accents, but Brits do. Didn’t know it was intentional. Canadians really only have a small handful.


47 posted on 02/21/2017 2:06:53 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: oldvirginian

For those of us that live in the West, distances in the east seem like nothing. Basically there is a major city every 2 hours starting from Chicago to pretty much anywhere East. As I said, I live in Canada, and to go from the Vancouver area to meet my wife’s family in Denver is a 25 hour drive - and except for Seattle, no major cities on the way.


48 posted on 02/21/2017 2:12:17 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Agreed. They actually made you respect the British guy who initially used the headstones as a base to bring cannon over...I KNEW they were trying to set you up that way, but even still...

Out here, you can walk the route taken by the British out and back. There is a house that still has a musket ball shot hole in it. There are graves of British soldiers.

You can easily imagine the panic in the retreat.


49 posted on 02/21/2017 2:44:34 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: oldvirginian

Do you pronounce “out” in a fashion similar to Canadians?


50 posted on 02/21/2017 2:52:58 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: 2sheds

You’re right, it really is an excellent book.

In the foreward David Hackett Fischer mentions that he lives a region where descendants of Revere and his contemporaries still live. Maybe that added to his desire to produce a really good history.


51 posted on 02/21/2017 2:58:20 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: Sam Gamgee

When I first started driving long haul it was the distances that I had to get used to.
The MOST BORING drive I ever made, and I made it often, was Kansas City to Denver.
I mean, how many sorghum and sunflower fields can one look at in a drive.
I would be so happy to see Denver I wouldn’t even mind the traffic!

Hardest thing I had to do people wise was convince dispatchers in Missouri and Kansas what a clusterscrew east coast traffic is.
They didn’t realize that rush hour traffic on I-95 stretched from Boston, MA to Richmond, VA. They just couldn’t understand it.


52 posted on 02/21/2017 4:13:54 PM PST by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: Pelham

Out sounds like owt, boat is bowt, house is howse...you get the idea.

I’ve been accused of being from Canada, Ohio, you name it.
I even had one fella swear I was Cajun!

In my years of driving a truck I only had one person guess right. He lived in northern Wisconsin but had relatives in southern Va so he knew the accent.


53 posted on 02/21/2017 4:20:43 PM PST by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: Paal Gulli
The rider who got through was Samuel Prescott.

Revere and Dawes met him on the way and he joined up with them.

Prescott's sister was a Bush ancestor.

54 posted on 02/21/2017 4:33:11 PM PST by x
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To: Pelham

Two of Revere’s grandsons were generals in the Civil War. One was mortally wounded at Gettysburg.


55 posted on 02/21/2017 4:38:57 PM PST by x
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To: x

Didn’t know that. Were they Reveres or was this through a daughter’s line?


56 posted on 02/21/2017 5:05:20 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: Pelham

Both were Reveres. One was also the grandson of Joseph Warren, a revolutionary leader killed at Bunker Hill.


57 posted on 02/21/2017 5:12:11 PM PST by x
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To: oldvirginian

“Out sounds like owt, boat is bowt, house is howse...you get the idea.”

I know, because I do that too. I somehow acquired it growing up in Arlington which isn’t exactly Tidewater. Didn’t know I did that until someone in California asked if I was Canadian.


58 posted on 02/21/2017 5:16:00 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: x

Do you happen to know which part of Gettysburg the one grandson was at?

One of my ancestors was killed at the Peach Orchard, Barksdale’s Brigade, on the 2nd day. Buried in the field. There’s a freeper whose wife is descendant of General Barksdale, who was also killed in that same charge through the peach orchard.


59 posted on 02/21/2017 5:27:17 PM PST by Pelham (Liberate Occupied California. Prosecute Sanctuary enablers. Deportation now!)
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To: HippyLoggerBiker

My dad used to read it to us. Revere was the original source of REAL news!


60 posted on 02/21/2017 5:28:53 PM PST by Melian (America, bless God. God, bless America.)
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