lets all remember April 19th. 1775....that was also an important date..../// Paul Revere gets credit for the ride, but was stopped near the start, William Dawes made the complete ride....///
from what I remember there was a sixteen year old girl who did pretty good too.
Yeah, carry on. I read the story in the link and it's sort of like a novel, you can't just read a few pages. (Quite apart from the fact, of course, that I know the eventual outcome) this has still "grabbed my interest".
There was obviously something lacking in my education, they didn't teach us this at school and I have never thought to read up on it since.
(I know this might seem a bit sarcastic, but after all this time, you must know me and know that I'm being sincere)
why would this topic be a lack in your education?
"… the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive …" yadda yadda. Yes, the famed Paul Revere set out on horseback on this day in 1775 to raise the alarm that British troops were on their way from Boston to Lexington.
Revere rode about 20 miles through what is now Somerville, Medford, and Arlington, Massachusetts, knocking on doors to raise people to defend Lexington. Another rider, William Dawes, was sent by another route to do the same thing. A third, Samuel Prescott, was also pressed into service. Only Prescott completed the night’s work and reached Concord; Revere was captured and Dawes was thrown from his horse while evading British soldiers, forcing him to walk back to Lexington.
It was a good ride for Revere, and it was good for the revolution. But a little over two years later, a 16-year-old girl did the midnight riders one better. Sybil Ludington rode twice as far as Revere did, by herself, over bad roads, and in an area roamed by outlaws, to raise Patriot troops to fight in the Battle of Danbury and the Battle of Ridgefield in Connecticut. And did we mention it was raining?
Sybil was the eldest of 12 children of Col. Henry Ludington, the commander of the militia in Dutchess County, New York. Ludington’s farm was a receiving center for information collected by spies for the American cause.
