Tag: lexington
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May 1775: The Patriot
This is the story of an American Patriot. He was from New Haven, CT, and his father died when he was very young; as a result, he could not afford to attend Yale with his cohorts. This left him with a sense of insecurity that he overcame by sailing on numerous trade voyages to the…
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April 19-24, 1775: Israel’s Ride
News spreads fast. Here’s how. On Wednesday, April 19, 1775, in Watertown MA near Boston, Joseph Palmer, a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, learned about what had happened that morning in Lexington. He wrote and dispatched what has become known to historians as the ‘Lexington Alarm’: “To all the friends of American liberty…
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April 18, 1775: Unfound Fathers
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear‘Bout the other guys not named Revere.On Eighteenth April, Seventy-FiveThese other two were yet aliveAnd rode too on that day and year.And though today we hardly pauseTo recreate forgotten fameTheir heroism was yet the sameWith long-lost names of Prescott and Dawes. While the Silversmith was talking lights(One or two…
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