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[HippyLoggerBiker]

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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“The Mercury of the Revolution” David Hackett Fischer

[BlueLancer]

The Ride of Paul Revere

[jennychase]

He was Muslim refugee, illegally came from Chile and grand parents were black.

[BlueLancer]

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.

[wardaddy]

In before....

[Sam Gamgee]

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.

[Bookshelf]

If you owned a piece of silverware he produced I guarantee you would care.

[rlmorel]

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!

[CapandBall]

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.

[Big Red Badger]

William Diamond’s Drum..

By Arthur Tourtellot.

Fantastic account of that entire Battle.

[Pelham]

Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer

[gattaca]

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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."

[bert]

By failing to deploy the artillery in his command, Paul Revere was a substantial contributor to the loss of 117 USN ships. It was the largest loss in the history of the US Navy

[foreverfree]

I always liked "Let Me" from 1969. RIP Paul.

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