| Tango01 | 04 Aug 2016 12:23 p.m. PST |
DELETED BECAUSE OF THE BUG………….. |
| Tango01 | 04 Aug 2016 12:31 p.m. PST |
"Despite the fact that he was the son of a French immigrant, Paul Revere volunteered to fight against the French in the French and Indian War in 1756. Revere spent his short time in the war on the Crown Point expedition at Fort William Henry on Lake George in New York, The Province of Massachusetts Bay, where Revere lived, joined the war in the spring of 1755 when the Massachusetts General Court authorized the raising of 3,500 men for the war. On March 29, 1755, Massachusetts Governor William Shirley issued the following order:…"
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| Winston Smith | 04 Aug 2016 3:19 p.m. PST |
He was a better revolutionary than soldier. Or courier. |
| Winston Smith | 04 Aug 2016 3:22 p.m. PST |
"Listen my children with open jaws,
Of the midnight ride of William Dawes."
At least HE finished his ride without getting captured.  |
Marc33594  | 05 Aug 2016 6:28 a.m. PST |
Though Revere was a better silversmith! :) |
| Bill N | 05 Aug 2016 9:42 a.m. PST |
"Listen my children with open jaws,
Of the midnight ride of William Dawes."
At least HE finished his ride without getting captured He didn't get caught, but I thought his ride ended short of Concord. |
| Tango01 | 05 Aug 2016 10:57 a.m. PST |
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| PrussianMonty | 05 Aug 2016 3:49 p.m. PST |
I thought he was caught by a British patrol and his horse confiscated, leaving him to continue on foot? Or am I confusing him with someone else? |
| Charlie 12 | 13 Aug 2016 11:25 a.m. PST |
He was a better revolutionary than soldier. Or courier. And an even better silversmith and later industrialist. |
| deephorse | 14 Aug 2016 5:59 a.m. PST |
I wanted to read about the Dirty Dozen. |
| Major Bloodnok | 15 Aug 2016 1:32 p.m. PST |
I believe that Revere was captured almost as soon as he started, had his horse confiscated, and according to some, spilled his guts to the regulars (must have been rather messy. However Dawes didn't have Longfellow as a relative. |
paints brigs for the British fleet.