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Welcome to The History of the Americans Podcast. My name is Jack Henneman, and I'm telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning, without presentism.
Sidebar: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 2: The Ride
The History of the Americans
50 minutes 39 seconds
7 months ago
Sidebar: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 2: The Ride
This is the second of two "Sidebar" episodes in honor of the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride, which we will celebrate on the night of April 18 by putting two lights in a window of our house.
Last time we explored the prelude to the ride in the months before the final crisis that triggered the march of the British "Regulars" on Lexington and Concord. This episode is the story of Paul Revere's "midnight" ride on the night of April 18-19, 1775, including the famous lanterns of Old North Church, the fraught trip across the Charles River under the guns of HMS Somerset, his spectacular horse Brown Beauty (one of the great equine heroes of American history), the "waking up the institutions of New England" that night in raising the alarm not just on the road to Lexington and Concord but throughout eastern New England, and his astonishing capture and release. And, sure, William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott.
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Selected references for this episode (Commission earned for Amazon purchases through the episode notes on our website)
David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride
John Hancock's Trunk o' Papers
The History of the Americans
Welcome to The History of the Americans Podcast. My name is Jack Henneman, and I'm telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning, without presentism.
