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2015-04-20 -Land of the Free

240 Years Ago Today, Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Try Saturday night, not today (Monday). The battle of Lexington and Concord was on April 19th so the ride was April 18-19th.

Posted by Zorba de Medici9541 2015-04-20 07:27|| 2015-04-20 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Zorba: The post was submitted Saturday.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-20 10:45|| 2015-04-20 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer

Well written, informative, and exciting. It covers the spy network then the raid of the Regulars. Two of the concepts he challenges in this book is The British are Coming - the colonials still considered themselves British, so The Regulars, meaning the Army, are coming. Second is that the colonial militia were a bunch of straw chewing hicks when many were veterans of the French-Indian war and knew a couple things about soldering. Also, that it wasn't just Paul Revere but a whole network who went out that night.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-20 10:48|| 2015-04-20 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Zorba: The post was submitted Saturday.

Yes, it was. I rolled it over because we had a surplus of articles, but I thought it worth keeping.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-20 13:27|| 2015-04-20 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 240 years and a third still want a King.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2015-04-20 19:10|| 2015-04-20 19:10|| Front Page Top

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