Midnight Ride(s)

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oh hey there, oh hey there.

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Why were you so like timid in that one?

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I don't know and I'm bradley this is History, buffoons, hello, how was your day?

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It was good I worked and then I worked more on different stuff.

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I feel like I have been working all day, because I've been up since 3.30.

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Hey, it's been almost 12 hours.

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Oh, thanks for putting it in perspective.

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Yes, you're welcome.

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I don't like that.

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I had a massage yesterday, yeah by a coworker, and it was a very good massage.

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I enjoyed it immensely.

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But I am very sore today.

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Are you?

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I'm not, so I asked for like medium to firm pressure.

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Yeah.

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And I'm kind of a wimp because I was like go back to medium, Go back to medium.

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Not the firm, not the firm, that's funny I know what not to do next time.

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Well, at least you know for you, even though you said you like to give more firm, deep tissue type massages give more firm deep tissue type massages right?

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I I got to.

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I got to perform a firm to deep tissue this morning and it was fantastic and I really enjoyed it excellent and he said that there were techniques in there that no one's done for him ever before.

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Well, that's good yeah positive feedback I'm happy about it well, good for you.

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Apparently it wants to tell me that this is being recorded.

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Yes, I know, thank you thank you so much, thank you much obliged so we are recording this over over zoom.

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We can't always meet up correct, so if the audio sounds different, I don't know if it would sound different, but that is why well, I'll do my best to make it sound like we're in the same room still psych okay so what oh?

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My word bradley does all of the editing for us and I do and he's doing all the website stuff for us with a little bit of assistance from you yeah, and I'm doing all the like, more of the research and the social media stuff.

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So I think we've kind of split it down pretty good 50-50, I think.

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Well, we're trying.

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I mean, we don't want to make one person do more than they have to.

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It's a collaborative effort.

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We want to both.

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We both enjoy doing this, so we both want to put our best efforts in.

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So we've kind of go ahead ahead, yep well I'm not really a social media person I'm not either.

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I'm probably even less than you, so yeah, so that's been interesting.

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Um, I've got a, a 21 year old co-worker and I'm like how do you do this thing on instagram?

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she's like you just hit this button, kate.

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That's's all you do there's just one button, seriously Just a button.

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Just a button.

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Well, I mean, if you're not used to it, how would you know that, though?

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I mean, I grew up with Facebook, so I know more about Facebook than anything else.

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I grew up with MySpace.

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Yeah, I actually didn't do a ton of myspace.

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I had a little bit.

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But tom was my friend tom if you don't know you have to look that up oh, tom was it.

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Tom was everybody's friend.

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He's the one who created it oh, it's like um the guy who's who's on Facebook, who's everybody's friend.

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I don't know.

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I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is everybody's friend.

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There's somebody Maybe it's Myspace that I'm thinking of and I just don't remember.

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That's what it was.

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Which is par for the course.

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Yeah, she doesn't remember a lot.

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I'm surprised you remembered to do this today.

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It's in my calendar.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah.

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Twice, it's in my phone calendar and it's my written calendar.

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That's a lot of calendars, yeah double whammy Double whammy.

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Well okay then double whammy, girl.

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Yeah, what do you got for us today?

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Today, yeah, I've got a story for you.

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I have.

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I have ears to listen to this story and a mouth to interject great, okay, great.

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So we are doing a story.

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I'm doing story on three different midnight rides from the 1770s you had mentioned this briefly to me, so I'm excited to learn about these midnight rides yeah, so this takes place during the american revolution, which I knew nothing about, um, so naturally I wanted to learn a little bit, and it's very, very interesting, um, and then I tried to look up some like documentaries and things on it, and there just wasn't any like good choices.

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I mean I feel like there's a lot of choices on the American revolution.

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It's a pretty uh like yeah, but none that like grasped my interest.

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I couldn't even watch the Patriot online or on TV.

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That isn't a historical document, that's a movie.

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I know, but it's still entertainment.

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Well, I get that, but just you know, just want to make sure you didn't think that was like a documentary.

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Oh no, I knew that.

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Mel Gibson is an actor I would have liked to have been entertained by it.

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Are you not entertained?

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Okay, sorry anyways.

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Are you not entertained?

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Okay, anyway, so we are going to start with the Midnight Rides of 1775.

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So picture this.

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I'm picturing it.

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So the year is 1775 and and we are in colonial Massachusetts, massachusetts.

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Okay, so winters are super long, harsh Summers are hot, humid Sounds, like everywhere else in the United States.

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Yeah, especially right now, holy balls.

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But the colonialist homes were modest so they were made of wood with a stone foundation and they had chimneys kind of in the center of their house, kind of like the heart of the home, for heating and cooking purposes.

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The children back then often helped with daily chores.

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Young men went out in the field with their fathers daily chores.

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Young men went out in the field with their fathers.

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The girls stayed inside and learned domestic skills and they helped take care of the other children as well.

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The women were essential in the family's survival, so they would cook and clean, tend to the gardens, make clothing, clothing, and they would also help their husbands out in the field.

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Um, and then they would even help financially sometimes.

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Some of the wealthier women would manage estates and the poor women might spin and sell yard yarn yard and yarn and they they would also work in small shops, okay, um, men had occupations like farmer, blacksmith, shoemakers, carpenters.

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In larger towns you'd also find like doctors, lawyers and ministers, sure Okay.

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So that's kind of like the timeframe that we're looking at and what life in colonials were Okay were okay so in 1775 there was a lot of discontent with british rule in the american colonies and they had been simmering for over a decade and it was kind of reaching like a boiling point.

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So there were some key factors that fueled their outrage.

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So the biggest thing is taxation yep, that was pretty much the start of most of it, right?

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Yeah.

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So they argued that the British parliament was imposing taxes on them, such as the Stamp Act and the Townsend Act, without giving them any representation in parliament.

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They're just.

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They just said you have to do what I say, you don't get.

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You don't get a say in it.

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What was the Townsend Act?

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The Townsend Act imposed taxes on imported goods Okay, like glass, lead, paint, paper, tea, and it also established stricter revenue collection procedures.

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And the Stamp Act was an act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp on various forms of papers, documents and playing cards, of all things.

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That's odd, and it was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling rather than colonial currency.

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Oh yeah, why make it easy?

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Yeah, exactly.

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So they all felt that they didn't have a say in any of these changes.

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So the colonists had a level of self-government themselves In their own colonial legislatures.

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But the British were increasingly trying to tighten control and restrict their autonomy.

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So this also included the stationing of British troops In the colonies, which many colonists saw as a threat.

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Oh, yeah, because all of a sudden you got soldiers around you.

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There were also economic restrictions as a threat.

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Oh yeah, Because all of a sudden you got soldiers around you, Mm-hmm.

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There were also economic restrictions.

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There was a British policy called the Navigation Act which limited the colonists' ability to trade freely with other countries.

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Okay.

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So it was promoted and developed by English ships and shipping.

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So English this and English that right?

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Well, I mean, we all were.

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Technically.

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All the people started to hear English at one point, so I understand it.

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But we were trying to get too comfortable without them.

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There was also a philosophical Button heads, yeah but like what's the word for that A philosophical like clash.

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Sure Clash in philosophical ideals.

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Anyway, you can edit that part out.

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I might keep that in you never know, Stay tuned, folks.

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So the colonists were increasingly influenced by enlightenment ideals like liberty, self-government and the right to consent to government, and these ideas classed with the tyranny of British rule.

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Damn tyranny so in 1777, there was a clash between British troops and colonists in Boston that resulted in the death of several colonists.

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Yeah, and this event heightened tensions and fueled anti-British sentiment, and that was called the Boston Massacre.

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Yeah, Then in 1773, there was a protest by colonists against a certain act.

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The act granted the company the right for a ship Nope.

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What year did the Boston Massacre take place in?

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1770.

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Okay.

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So, in 1773, there was a protest by colonists, and the act granted the company the right to ship something directly to the colonies without first landing it in England.

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Something.

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And to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell this in the colonies.

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That was so obscure.

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But do you know what I'm talking about?

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Tea.

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That would happen in 1773.

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The tea Boston Tea Party.

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Yeah, the Boston Tea Party.

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Stupid Townsend Act.

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Yeah, so there's a Tea Act.

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Yeah.

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And the company had the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies, without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who had the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.

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So there was a protest by the colonists against the Tea Act, so they dumped 342 crates of tea into the boston harbor man, if you like tea, it would have probably been pretty delicious to go swimming.

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Do you like tea?

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I like black tea and hearty black tea.

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Oh yeah, I knew you liked black tea.

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I don't like tea.

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Tea is not my thing.

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I also like iced tea.

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So I would have just been part of dumping it.

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Yeah, not because damn you government.

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Just because this sucks.

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I hate tea.

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I don't need this tea, I don't need your tea.

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Give me water, anyway, sorry.

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Give me water Anyway, sorry, continue.

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So those grievances and events led to the rise of a strong movement for independence.

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There were leaders like Samuel Adams, john Adams and Patrick Henry who advocated for self-government and separation from Britain.

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There was also a group called the Sons of Liberty, which organized protests and boycotts against British goods.

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Okay.

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So by 1775, the colonists were no longer willing to passively accept British rule.

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There were battles in Lexington and Concord in April 1775, and that marked the start of the Revolutionary War.

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Sure did.

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Okay, so let's go to the evening of April 18th, 7075.

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7075?

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We're talking yeah, we're talking nighttime 1775?

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It sounded like you said 7075.

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The nighttime of April 18th 1775.

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All right.

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One, seven, seven, five, so a man named Robert Newman, who was a caretaker of Boston's old North Church, which still stands.

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I've been there.

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Have you.

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Yeah.

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I'm kind of jealous.

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My family took a trip to Boston out east I should say out east Boston was a stop on the whole trip when I was 14, so 30 years ago.

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Do you remember?

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what month of the year.

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It was in August.

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So, like I said, said 30 years ago, um, because my mom bought me an early birthday present which was a book.

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So that was a book and she was the book on uh, it was a thing.

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I think it was a star wars book actually, um, but I remember she wrote the date in it and it was I don't remember august what, but it was august, yeah, 94.

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So your.

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Your memory for dates is astounding and it's funny because I can remember a lot of dumb shit like that.

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But there's certain things I just well yeah, but, yeah, but yeah.

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I just I don't know, yeah, but yeah, no, I've been there and we went to a whole bunch of uh, good old uh I don't know historic sites in that area.

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My uh, really good family friend and my dad, one of my dad's best friends Um, they grew up in Wisconsin.

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They met when they went to college in Whitewater, butwater, but he lived out in Boston for quite a long time before they moved out to California and they had since moved at this point, but they still knew a lot of people, obviously from Boston and they hooked us up with one of their friends to stay at their house.

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It was like the coolest fucking house ever.

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It was a three-story old-ass house and the middle floor had a library by the stairwell and stuff.

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It was super cool.

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You would have loved that.

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It was great.

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So I had a lot of fun staying there and they were excellent people.

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I cannot, for the life of me, remember their names, but I can remember when I saw them.

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But anyway, sorry.

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Okay.

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So Robert Newman, the caretaker of the Boston's Old North Church, used a lantern signal to warn colonists in Charlestown of the British Army's advance.

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So where he is in Boston and where Charlestlestown is is just over the charles river.

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So it's it's actually fairly close, even though there's a river separating them sure, but I was.

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I was gonna ask like how, how damn close was it to see that light.

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yeah, yeah, okay.

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So leader of the sons of liberty Liberty that organization was Dr Joseph Warren.

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He assigned Mr Paul Revere to alert the Minutemen of the British Army's advance.

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So the Minutemen are the militia who could be ready in a minute's notice.

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So they just called it, minutemen.

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I wrote burnish are coming Jesus.

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So Revere rode on horseback to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington, which is about 10 miles away.

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He also alerted up to other 40 Patriot riders along the way okay so he's just probably shouting and the horse is probably like dude.

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We get it.

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The british is coming can I stop for some hay?

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dr joseph warren also assigned william dawes, another member of the Sons of Liberty, to ride from Boston to Lexington on the night of April 18th 1775.

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So William Dawes and Paul Revere rode together.

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So they both went to Lexington.

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Yes, at the same exact time they sent two just in case one didn't make it, I don't know.

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Have a backup plan the same exact time?

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Yeah, they send two, just in case one didn't make it, I don't know.

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Have a backup plan.

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Or maybe it was like you get that side of the road, I'll yell this side of the road.

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Yeah, because they won't hear you.

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On the other side of the road, the British are coming.

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What did he say?

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Oh, I heard that guy though.

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Fuck All right Either way.

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So Dawes' mission, together with Revere, was to warn John Hancock, samuel Adams, that they were actually in danger of arrest.

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Dawes took the land route.

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Oh, here's the answer.

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Oh.

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I just had to keep reading, wow.

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All right.

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Dawes took the land route out of Boston through the Boston Neck, leaving just before the British sealed off the town, and Reere took another route.

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So there you go makes more sense.

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Yeah, okay yeah, so they took two different routes well, you know, I mean although I've got an image now of both of them like horse on horseback I'll go to this side, you go to that side of the street.

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that's all I'm picturing, which is unfortunate because it's not true, anyways.

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So they both arrived at the Hancock Clark House, which is the childhood home of John Hancock and Lexington, at about the same time, shortly after midnight.

00:19:55.497 --> 00:20:02.554
So I looked up where all of these were in relation to each other on maps.

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These were in relation to each other on maps, but if you were to look up where the John nope, where the Hancock Clark house is now, what do you think?

00:20:12.515 --> 00:20:15.279
What?

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businesses, do you think are right around the corner?

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Either a bank or a gas station.

00:20:20.084 --> 00:20:23.606
There's a Qdoba, oh geez, a Walgreens and a Starbucks.

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I was going to say if there's a Qdoba, there's a Starbucks.

00:20:26.769 --> 00:20:29.811
Yeah, they're all within walking distance of this historic house.

00:20:30.051 --> 00:20:34.215
Well, just in case the Hancock clerks want to get a refreshment, some food.

00:20:34.215 --> 00:20:36.317
It's just crazy how Maybe some Band-Aids.

00:20:37.661 --> 00:20:43.213
I feel like the historical places we should just leave alone and go build elsewhere.

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Yeah, but the problem is a lot of these things aren't like dubs.

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I mean, those should have been a long time ago, but a lot of historical things aren't like oh, we should have preserved that until like well, after the fact yeah I mean that's like going to the pyramids of egypt and like you think it's in like the middle of the desert, but there's a fucking city right next to it.

00:21:03.826 --> 00:21:09.381
So I know it's literally right next to it nobody knows because the other side there's nothing well exactly so it's.

00:21:09.461 --> 00:21:10.243
it's unfortunate.

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Yes, I agree, um, but you know, unfortunately some people don't have the foresight to, I don't know, protect those that area, and I mean some do like you know, like if you go to the battle of gettysburg, no, there's nothing built on that, there's not a Qdoba on that field.

00:21:26.229 --> 00:21:28.574
So yeah, but anyways.

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So, after warning Adams and Hancock to leave, revere and Doss proceeded to Concord, in case that that was the British's goal.

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And Concord is again just nearby, it's like 10 miles from Lexington.

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Sure.

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So Revere knew that they had stored munitions there, including cannons, which Dawes had actually helped secure.

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So along the way the two men met Samuel Prescott, a young local physician, and he was headed home to Concord from Lexington himself and he was headed home to Concord from Lexington himself.

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So upon hearing about their mission, prescott, who was also a Son of Liberty member, offered to assist Revere and Dawes, pointing out that he was well known in the area and residents would probably be more likely to believe a warning coming from him rather than potential strangers.

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Well, that makes sense, because otherwise they could be like yeah, who are these jamokes riding down the road saying the british are coming?

00:22:27.852 --> 00:22:28.053
right.

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Why should we trust them?

00:22:28.921 --> 00:22:44.272
Yeah, no, I'm so that's sound logic really yeah, as they raced along the road toward concord, the three riders alerted residents in several uh lincoln mass, massachusetts houses by banging on doors.

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So a nearby town.

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Their mission was actually cut short near the Concord border in Lincoln as a British patrol was dispatched from Boston the night before to intercept any colonists carrying warning.

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Oh caught them.

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Well, shit.

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Did you know that?

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I actually did not know that.

00:23:04.522 --> 00:23:04.983
No, yeah, that's crazy.

00:23:04.983 --> 00:23:06.086
So you know that I actually did not know that.

00:23:06.086 --> 00:23:06.567
No, yeah, that's crazy.

00:23:06.586 --> 00:23:11.862
So the three men rode in different directions hoping they would escape.

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So, dawes, according to the story he told his children spoiler alert he lived, rode into I had no idea.

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Weird.

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He rode into the yard of a house shouting that he had lured two officers there, so fearing an ambush.

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The officer stopped chasing him.

00:23:33.771 --> 00:23:33.912
Oh.

00:23:34.663 --> 00:23:46.449
So he's being chased and so he's telling nobody behind this house like hey, I've got two of them following me, so like pretending that there was somebody there to ambush them.

00:23:46.669 --> 00:23:47.109
Well, right.

00:23:47.130 --> 00:23:47.912
It's kind of brilliant.

00:23:48.259 --> 00:23:54.092
No, that's genius, because he's not going to follow me because otherwise he's like I might get killed.

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Yeah, so at that point Dawes' horse actually bucked him off, oh shit, and he had to walk back to Lexington.

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But later that morning he actually returned to the same yard and found his watch that had fallen from his pocket.

00:24:08.493 --> 00:24:09.295
Oh, well done.

00:24:11.813 --> 00:24:12.578
Did he have a pocket watch?

00:24:12.578 --> 00:24:15.203
No, just a watch and a pocket.

00:24:15.243 --> 00:24:16.567
I don't know if I like what you did there.

00:24:16.567 --> 00:24:19.192
I know what you did, but I don't know if I like it.

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So Prescott, according to Brevere's account, took a huge leap with his horse.

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He steered his horse towards a stone wall, cleared it in a jump and vanished into thick woods.

00:24:34.314 --> 00:24:34.594
Oh, wow.

00:24:36.121 --> 00:24:39.950
The encounter, however, resulted in the capture of Revere what a dick.

00:24:40.009 --> 00:24:40.330
A dick.

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And he was released after questioning because he was just a simple you know messenger.

00:24:52.931 --> 00:24:54.958
Yeah, I suppose I mean makes sense.

00:24:54.958 --> 00:24:55.400
I guess I don't know.

00:24:55.921 --> 00:24:57.627
I probably would have kept him, you know.

00:24:57.859 --> 00:24:59.588
Well, yeah, but if he didn't have any?

00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:04.652
Being a member of the Sons of Liberty who are, like adamantly against British control?

00:25:04.832 --> 00:25:08.907
Yeah, yeah, but if he didn't have any vital information, what are they going to do with them?

00:25:09.549 --> 00:25:16.547
yeah, so prescott eventually emerged from the woods and the swamps near um heartwell tavern.

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He alerted the heartwell family also.

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The tavern and the house are still also around is.

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Is the tavern still a working tavern or?

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is it just a historical place?

00:25:27.363 --> 00:25:28.807
I did not look into that.

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I did not look into that.

00:25:30.441 --> 00:25:34.268
We'll have to look into that later, because I'm curious, because we should go have a pint there.

00:25:35.049 --> 00:25:35.651
Yeah, we should.

00:25:35.671 --> 00:25:36.973
Oh, that'd be fun, that'd be cool.

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So he alerted the Hartwell family who lived next to the tavern, and they also spread word to others.

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Okay, while family who lived next to the tavern, and they also spread word to others.

00:25:49.486 --> 00:25:49.586
Okay.

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So the alarm quickly reached captain william smith who was the leader of the lincoln minute men.

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So, hearing the news, captain smith ordered the town bell to be wrong, summoning his entire company to assemble.

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So give it by giving the minute menemen, advance warning of the British's actions.

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The ride played a crucial role in the Patriot victory and the subsequent battles at Lexington and Concord.

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So the ride had been commemorated in a range of cultural depictions.

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There was like a poem in 1861 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called Paul Revere's Ride, which had shaped the popular memory of the event, but there was no mention of Dawes or Prescott.

00:26:35.146 --> 00:26:36.009
What the hell man.

00:26:36.951 --> 00:26:37.211
I know.

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So, like they kind of got lost in history.

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Always the bridesmaid, always the bridesmaid.

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So the Battle of Lexington started around 5 am in Concord later that morning.

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That's really early to start a fight.

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On April 19th 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord marking the start of the war, dr Joseph Palmer dispatched Israel Bissell on a critical mission.

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Bissell.

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Bissell's task was to race through Connecticut spreading the alarm and urging colonists to join forces with the Massachusetts Minutemen.

00:27:21.912 --> 00:27:22.553
Okay.

00:27:23.921 --> 00:27:27.166
So he gets his own midnight ride.

00:27:28.148 --> 00:27:30.011
Israel Bissell Just a day later.

00:27:30.933 --> 00:27:31.153
Yeah.

00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:34.526
Is he part of the Bissell family that makes like vacuums and stuff?

00:27:35.367 --> 00:27:38.093
I don't know why don't you look that up Meanwhile.

00:27:38.192 --> 00:27:38.574
I'll pass.

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His message was known as the Lexington Alarm and it was addressed to militias across five colonies.

00:27:46.049 --> 00:27:55.309
This will lift palmer behind in watertown and headed towards worcester, encountering many colonists already on their way to lexington.

00:27:55.390 --> 00:28:01.625
I mean, word was spreading fast, right yeah, for even back then I can imagine that people are like let's get our guns, boys.

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Yeah.

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So as he rode, bissell's Crieds was quote to arms, the war has begun, end quote.

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And it echoed through the countryside, prompting townspeople to ring church bells and fire cannons to alert their neighbors.

00:28:16.213 --> 00:28:22.993
I don't think I would fire a cannon to alert my neighbor, but we also don't know how closely they were to each other.

00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:24.286
Well, maybe they were a few feet or a few acres.

00:28:24.286 --> 00:28:25.310
I don't know how closely they were to each other.

00:28:25.310 --> 00:28:27.019
Well, maybe they were a few feet or a few acres, I don't know.

00:28:27.019 --> 00:28:28.038
Yeah, we don't know.

00:28:28.038 --> 00:28:34.151
But yeah, I'm like hold on, I got to set off my cannon to alert people.

00:28:34.151 --> 00:28:36.085
Who just has a cannon to alert people?

00:28:36.846 --> 00:28:38.230
I don't know who just has a cannon.

00:28:38.230 --> 00:28:50.604
I mean, I know those are different times, I think they should go to the front lines, don't you think, well lines don't you think well the cannon should.

00:28:50.604 --> 00:28:51.885
Yeah, exactly for sure.

00:28:51.885 --> 00:28:53.428
So bissell's journey was a pretty grueling one.

00:28:53.428 --> 00:29:06.814
Okay, he averaged 69 miles a day, holy covering a total distance of 345 miles that poor horse well, funny, you should bring that up okay, he was given fresh horses along the way.

00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:10.386
Oh, so just people like hey, this dude's on a mission.

00:29:10.386 --> 00:29:11.430
Let's give him a fresh horse.

00:29:12.151 --> 00:29:13.053
Yes, yes.

00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:16.851
So kind of like in Gladiator, where he brought a second horse to get back to his family.

00:29:16.851 --> 00:29:19.468
They just gave him fresh ones when he showed up.

00:29:19.468 --> 00:29:22.909
Well, there's no way that horse would have made it that much.

00:29:22.909 --> 00:29:25.445
69 miles a day is a lot.

00:29:26.368 --> 00:29:28.701
Yeah, so it actually.

00:29:28.701 --> 00:29:38.355
Historians suggest that Bissell's first horse collapsed after the initial leg from Watertown to Worcester.

00:29:38.355 --> 00:29:43.107
Okay, so he had to get a second horse, but then he was getting like fresh ones.

00:29:43.828 --> 00:29:45.854
Throughout his journey, sure, sure Okay.

00:29:48.061 --> 00:29:52.613
So Bissell's route wasn't limited to just Connecticut, as was originally planned.

00:29:52.613 --> 00:30:00.374
He actually went on to New York and Philadelphia where the seat of the Continental Congress was.

00:30:01.641 --> 00:30:03.144
I mean being from where we are.

00:30:03.144 --> 00:30:09.309
Isn't it funny to like think it's like holy shit, you want all these places, but it's so close over there, because that's just how it developed.

00:30:09.309 --> 00:30:11.442
I know or is from where, where we're from.

00:30:11.442 --> 00:30:16.351
I mean, all you, all you saw as a child, was corn just forever.

00:30:16.351 --> 00:30:18.619
I just saw some.

00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:33.173
You know farms as well, but not as much corn, I guess, but yeah it's just weird to think if I wanted to fly anywhere, I had to drive three hours to get to the airport, exactly so yeah so yeah, just think about.

00:30:33.373 --> 00:30:50.548
Think about it in that aspect, where yeah everything was so close back then, even though going 69 miles a day, that's a lot in one fucking day so, yeah, so throughout his travels he faced um skepticism from some of the townspeople who feared a false alarm.

00:30:51.289 --> 00:30:57.326
So, to address this, this little actually presented the original dispatch from joseph palmer.

00:30:57.365 --> 00:31:02.665
So if you recall, he's the um the leader of the sons of liberty yeah, who sent him on his way right?

00:31:03.047 --> 00:31:26.661
yeah, and so each stop he would show the townspeople this dispatch, and they added their own signing, verifying it before moving on sure, that's kind of cool actually yeah, so news of the conflict spread further as towns printed broadsides and newspaper articles based on the information carried by Bissell.

00:31:26.661 --> 00:31:29.204
So they're like get to the presses.

00:31:29.204 --> 00:31:34.073
Oh my god, alert the news.

00:31:34.374 --> 00:31:38.265
Alert the news, alert the media.

00:31:38.265 --> 00:31:41.737
Get on social media and spread this.

00:31:41.737 --> 00:31:42.619
I didn't.

00:31:42.619 --> 00:31:45.617
Social media back then was a newspaper.

00:31:46.790 --> 00:31:47.553
I heard a cannon.

00:31:47.553 --> 00:31:50.278
Get to the presses, okay, anyway.

00:31:51.181 --> 00:31:51.762
I heard a cannon.

00:31:51.762 --> 00:31:53.576
Either someone's warning us or they're having a party.

00:31:55.529 --> 00:32:02.878
So in New Haven, connecticut, the dispatch was modified to include an order for Bissell to take the message all the way to Philadelphia.

00:32:02.878 --> 00:32:05.141
An order for Bissell to take the message all the way to Philadelphia.

00:32:05.141 --> 00:32:10.047
Similarly, in New York, general Alexander McDougal suggested finding a new rider for the final leg.

00:32:10.047 --> 00:32:18.897
But according to the Sons of the American Revolution, several historians believe Bissell completed the entire journey himself.

00:32:18.897 --> 00:32:24.041
So from New York the message continues south through New Jersey before reaching Philadelphia.

00:32:24.269 --> 00:32:25.556
But they don't know that for sure.

00:32:25.556 --> 00:32:26.894
They just think that he did.

00:32:27.517 --> 00:32:27.718
Yeah.

00:32:28.329 --> 00:32:31.220
I mean it'd be kind of a dick move to take it away from him.

00:32:31.220 --> 00:32:32.494
He already went that far.

00:32:32.494 --> 00:32:34.155
Let him finish his job, man.

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