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Paul Revere's Not-So-Famous Rides (Ep76)
Paul Revere's Not-So-Famous Rides (Ep76)
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41 minutes
Released:
Apr 16, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
In honor of Patriots Day and the anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride, we are focusing on some of Paul Revere’s less famous rides this week. When Paul Revere set out to warn the Provincial Congress that the British Regulars were coming in April of 1775, it wasn’t his first gig as an express rider for the patriots. For almost three years, he had been carrying messages from the Boston Committee of Correspondence on horseback to patriots in New York, Philadelphia, New Hampshire, and beyond. It’s just that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow didn’t write poems about the other rides.
Show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/076
Show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/076
Released:
Apr 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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