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I can't you bar we have our.
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Of living and everything is done with athern accent.
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Where I'm a rather religious viewer of Jeopardy, And I
was troubled with Alex Trebek's death because Alex Trebek created
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at the end of the day, like everything else, just
a TV show. But for the cult of Jeopardy, it's
so much more. There are people that spend their entire lives.
They kind of put their careers on the side to
prepare for the day they will be on Jeopardy. Somebody
a couple of weeks ago he was a returning champion.
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His mother had been on Jeopardy in two thousand and one,
his father had been on Jeopardy in nineteen ninety three.
I've never seen anything like that, but there is. There
is a cult is one word. Tribe is a word
that marketers what you tried out for Jeopardy. I'm a
guest who didn't make it well, I mean ninety nine,
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I have one hundred don't And I have a number
of listeners who when we delve off into history, we'll
send an email. You know you've hit a mark with me.
I do this. There are different groups of people. There
are the re enactors, there are the people who go
and get a PhD. There are continuing educations. There are
people for whom the study of history is just a wonderful,
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glorious experience. It's a drug. It's it's if you don't
get it, you don't get it. And I understand that,
and that doesn't make you any worse than the next guy.
But for those who do, they do. So this next
segment is for you folks. You know that America's independence
July fourth, seventeen seventy six. So in nineteen seventy six
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we got to celebrate the CSQUA centennial, two centuries of
a declared independent nation. So it may seem odd that
in a year ending in five, twenty twenty five, that
we are in two days celebrating the two hundred fiftieth
anniversary of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and William
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Dawes and doctor Samuel Prescott. The following day will be
April nineteenth, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
beginning of the Revolutionary War, the result of which would
be our independence in the creation of the greatest nation
on Earth. Our next guest is a fellow who does
what a lot of you would like to do. I think,
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and that is write about it, talk about it, visit sites,
interview people, live it. Sort of an Alex Trebek lifestyle
of American history. His name is Alan Joaquim. His YouTube
page is the Sons of History. He writes for the
I don't know if it's epoch or epoch times how
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they pronounce it exactly, but Alan, welcome to the program.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Thank you, Michael. It's a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I know that you have a busy week this week
in coming days with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Let's start and I'll let you take it to the break.
It's three minutes till we go to the break. In
the next segment, let's talk about the Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere, Dawes and Samuel Prescott. What was happening at.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
That time, Well, at the time, Boston was under military occupation.
General Thomas Gage replaced the civilian governor and became the
military governor as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, and
he was there to enforce the coercive or the intolerable acts,
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depending on who you talk to, which punished Boston forced
you to quarter soldiers the civilian governments were shut down.
They could only meet once a year to elect representatives
for the following year. And in the process of enforcing
these laws, the people of the colony was called Massachusetts
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Bay at the time. The people of Massachusetts Bay were
defying General Gage, and in the process they started collecting weaponry.
So Gage was trying to put a stop to that,
and he was doing everything in his power to take arms,
or confiscate arms away from the militias that were forming
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all over the province. And there had been previous attempts
of confiscation. One was successful. There were a few more
that were not, such as what happened in Salem on
February the twenty sixth. They called it Leslie's retreat. And
throughout the Gage was learning from his mistakes, and so
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were the Sons of Liberty. Now they knew that that
Gauge was up to something, and there was a large,
large stash of weaponry stored at Concord. But at the
same time you also had two fugitives by the name
of John Hancock and Samuel Adams who were staying in Lexington.
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So when doctor Joseph Warren, who was running the Sons
of Liberty in Boston was receiving reports that the British
were up to something. They knew that a big operation
was about to happen. They just didn't know what, and
they weren't for sure. They could only guess. So on
the eighteenth of April, Doctor Warren sent William Dawes through
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the southern portion of Boston. Boston was pretty much like
an island. There was just like a thin strip of
land that connected Boston to the mainland. So he sent
William Dawes and he was able to get through minutes
before Gage shutdown the neck.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Hold right there, I hear the Alan McKim is our guest.
In two days we will commemorate two hundred and fifty
years from Paul Revere's famous bride. Will discuss that and
the Revolutionary War beginning the next day. Coming up here.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Listen for the dial tone. It sounds like this the
Michael Verry Show chop tone indicates everything is ready for
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Speaker 3 (08:31):
The fact that Weezer sang a song called the British
are Coming. There was a big pop band called Paul
Revere and the Raiders. The Beastie Boys sang a song
called Paul Revere which was a spoof on how they
came together, and so many more tells you that the
story of Paul Revere and the two others who wrote
DAWs and Prescott, who are far less famous, are indelibly
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in print on the minds of every American. And for
me that started as a child. My mom would quote
the line I didn't know where it was from at
the time. Listen, my children, and you shall hear of
the midnight ride of Paul Revere on the eighteenth of
April in seventy five. Hardily a man is now alive
who remembers that famous day and year. That's a reference
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to April eighteenth, seventeen seventy five. Hardly a man is
now alive because long William Longworth William Longfellow's Wadsworth Longfellow's
poem came out in eighteen sixty, which is eighty five
years after that ride. Sort of interesting that Dudley Hudson
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was our guest a few moments ago, and he was
eighty five, and it had been seventy eight years since
the explosion of Texas City, so you kind of get
the idea on the spatial reference. Paul Revere's ride probably
more famous today. I would argue, we'll see what our
guest thinks because of Longfellow's poem than anything else. And
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that's what really enshrined Paul Revere as the star of
that day when there were three actually making the rides.
Alan you were bringing us up to the moment. I
find it interesting when I give a speech sometimes I'll
talk about DAWs without giving his name, and how he
went up into the belfry and he is the one
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who wiggles his way through the British troops and manages
to send the alarm so that the troops could be
sent by the fellows. I think Hancock was among the
group that was organizing those I maybe getting some of
this wrong because they didn't have the resources to prepare
for an attack at land and sea, so they had
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to get that right. And he was the noble spy
who made that happen. But if you would talk a
little bit about.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
That, okay, well on you want to talk about what
William Dawes himself.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Or yeah, I think Dawes deserves some credit because Revere,
through poetry, I would argue, gets all of the credit,
and Dawes, in my opinion, was as important as anyone.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Well, I would say Paul Revere did more. And I'll
explain why. Because when Dawes wiggled his way through, as
you were saying, and you're and you're right about that,
and his mission was to go talk to Hancock and
John Hancock and Samuel Adams and Lexington, to warn them
that it's it looks like something is about to happen.
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We just don't know what. So when he so he
took his time, and he did. He did not know
that the that the Redcoats had mobilized. He had already
he was already on his way towards Lexington and conquered
when either there's a book by Derek Beck who states
that it was Warren who saw the brit the Red
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Coats loading onto the boats. Others have stated that they
don't know for sure who it was, but they loaded,
but the Red Coats were loading onto the boats and
their mission was to go confiscate and destroy the weapons
and conquered. Now Warren again didn't know what it was for.
But this was before that, this turn, This happened after
DAWs had already left. When when they saw the Britain,
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when they saw the Red Coats loading onto the boats.
That's when they summoned Paul Revere and told them what
was going on. So then Paul Revere had already set
up an very intricate, intricate network system of messengers and writers.
Revere was the one that was responsible for that. And
what he did was he contacted some guys in Charlestown,
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which was across the river, and he said that if
Gage seals off the city, what we're going to do.
And what we're going to do is if once the
Red Coats are mobilized and they are marching through the neck,
we will we will light up one lantern at the
Old North Church, the Old North Church steeple. This is
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in case I can't get out. This is what Rivere
was saying. If they are if they go by boat,
then we will light up two can't t lanterns. So
the people in Charlestown knew this, so they were on
the lookout every night for any lanterns that appeared at
the Old North Church. He then he contacted a guy
named Robert Newman and Captain John Pulling, friends of his.
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Now Newman was the sexton for the Old North Church.
So those two and along with Thomas Bernard Bernard stood
guard and Newman and pulling, they went up the steeple
with the lanterns, and they held out the lanterns for
only one minute. Now the people in Charlestown saw the lanterns,
but so did everybody else. The Red Coat saw it,
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Loyalists saw it, so they had to They did it
for one minute, and then they went back inside because
they were hanging outside the window. They went back inside
and the Red Coats had reached the front door of
the church, so they had to scramble to the other
side of the church. They found a window through the altar.
They threw a bench, climbed on top, opened the window,
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and jumped out and made their escape. Revere had two
friends of his rode him across the river. They had
to go around a big warship known as the HMS.
Somerset was a man of war. Once he got to Charlestown,
he met with a Colonel William Connett and a Richard Devons.
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They gave him a horse, but Richard Devons warned him
be careful. There are British horsemen all over the place,
and they're going to intercept you if they catch you,
So he got on his horse, and sure enough, within
minutes he was intercepted by two British horsemen and he
was able to make his escape. He took a more
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northerly route and from there that's where he did the alarm.
He would he didn't or shout the British are coming,
because they all they consider themselves British, but he did
say the regulars are out, or the or the Regulars
are coming, or the Red Coats are coming. Turn out
to your militia. And he did that all the way
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until he got to Lexington. He beat Dawes. He gets
to Lexington, they're staying at a Reverend Jonas Clark's house.
He wakes everybody up, tells them that the regulars are coming,
to get out and flee to Olburn or some other
nearby town. Minutes later Dawes shows up. Now the Lexington
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militia was warned that the Red Coats were coming, and
Dawes I hear the music again.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So the colonies were occupied, Americans were not yet Americans,
and the Revolutionary War would begin the following day. That
discussion coming.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
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we'll reprint them, or rEFInd your money, no matter who's
fault it is, show your photo matters.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Named town just to ride the pone.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
There are fifty six chalk pits surrounding Stonehenge that came
to be known as the Aubrey Holes, which was a
tribute to John Aubrey, who was what was known as
an antiquarian. He was an archaeologist, He was a recorder
of things, and he famously said, how these curiosities would
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be quite forgot? Did I not? Did not such idle
fellows as I put them down? How these curiosities would
be quite forgot? Did not such idle fellows as I
put them down? That was referring to a piece called
Brief Lives, which was a series of biographical sketches that
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he is well known for. But at the time, I'm
sure he was considered quite the quirky figure for taking
notes of what was going on around him. But if
he hadn't, if no one had recorded the stories of
Paul Revere and William Dawes Prescott and the Revolution, where
would we be today? If no one had written about
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the Texas City explosion and what happened and what people
wore and what the roofs look like. I consider that
to be a noble and admirable thing to do to
record history. But then there is the question of who
will keep that history alive. Alan Joaquim has the YouTube channel,
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the Sons of History. You can learn more about him there,
and he writes for the Epoch Times as well, and
he's our guest. And so Alan, we have this incursion
by the British on their cousins, who themselves consider themselves
British or English in most cases in the colonies, and
now they have decided the following day we're going to
fight them. This is going to be a pitched battle.
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Really a David and Goliath, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
It pretty much is. And it was also considered a
civil war. The the the colonists saw themselves as fighting
for the king. They didn't they had no idea that
the king was behind much of of the oppression that
was being put onto the onto the Thirteen Colonies. They
thought it was strictly Parliament doing all the work. So yeah,
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they were they were still loyal to the king at
this point. So that's you know, that's why they really
called the Revolutionary War the first American Civil War.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Describe how that war breaks out in the early battles
of it.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Okay, so you mentioned something about Revere. Did Dows do
as much as Revere? When when when they Revere set
up this this really intricate system of networking. When when
he did the alarm in each town? Then have you
ever seen those video demonstrations of what a chain reaction
looks like? Especially? Okay, So that's what it was with
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the messenger system. So each town he went into, those
towns then sent out messengers, and each town that those
messengers reached, they themselves sent out messengers. So you ended
up having the entire region, even up into New Hampshire,
where everybody knew that the Redcoats were on the march.
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So when now Prescott, now now they met up with
Samuel Prescott, they and Dawes and Revere kept going towards
Concord because they didn't really think that Hancock and Adams
were the primary target. They really felt that something was
going to happen in conquered with the weakery. Now on
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their way there, they were intercepted by about ten British
horsemen and Paul Revere was captured. Dawes escaped, lost his horse.
But Prescott managed to escape and he kept going to Concord,
and he set the alarm, or sounded the alarm and
Concord so they were ready. They hid the weapons, and
the militias, the militias of Concord gathered. Now the British
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were marching down. They called it the Lexington Road. Now
they call it the Battle Road. But they were marching.
There were about seven hundred of them, and Colonel Francis
Smith was the leader. They were hearing alarm bells, they
were hearing gunshots, they were hearing all kinds of noises
around to indicate that their little secret mission was no
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longer secret. So Colonel Smith ordered a man back to
go to Boston to go get some reinforcements. And he
sent a guy named Major Pitcairn to send the six
leading companies on up ahead to secure the bridges of Conquered.
Now these were the guys, the six companies led by
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Major Pitcairn. When they arrived in Lexington, which is right
on the road two Conquered, they approached what was known
as the Lexington Green when they looked to when they
looked on Lexington Green, they saw seventy seven men armed
men standing now. They were not standing on the road
obstructing their path. They were off on the green. And
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the reason why they did that was it was to
kind of again, nobody knew what their mission was, but
the seventy seven men, they were under the command of
Captain John Parker, they were standing there. It was kind
of like a peaceful protest. If you try to come
into our town, we will defend our town. Well, the
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Pitcairn's men could have kept going down the Conquered Road
when from Lexington Conquered was known as the Conquered Road.
They could have kept going, but they didn't. They decided
to veer off into the right. They marched onto Lexington
Green and got onto the faces of the seventy seven
Lexington militiamen that were standing there, and Captain park Or
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told his men, don't harass them, let them pass. But
he said, and he also said, don't fire unless fired upon.
But if they mean to have a war, let it
begin here now. Captain Parker also wasn't stupid. He could
see that he was heavily outnumbered. The major Pitcaring came
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and yelled at them, telling them to disperse, drop your
weapons and disperse. He was yelling, you rebels, you scum,
and you said, you know, disperse right now and drop
your weapons. Well they knew they had no chance, so
so they were ordered to go ahead and disperse, take
their weapons with them, and disperse now. Somewhere nobody knows
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where it came from. A shot was fired, and without
any orders given, the Red Coats just opened up on
the dispersing militiamen killed about they killed eight men. There
was the whole Lexington Green area, and there were onlookers
all over the place watching this whole thing. The Red
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Coasts ran into the smoke and they started bayoneting any
man that any militiamen that they could find. When it
was all said and done, eight men were dead or dying,
and ten were wounded. The rest of the rest of
the force. The British forces showed up and then together
they marched all the way to conquer. Now, when the
news of what happening Lexington was spread out, and it
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was in every town in the whole area, they knew
about the march, but then they heard about what happened
at Lexington, how a lot of Americans were killed. They
all mobilized and many of them started to March. And
what happened was when the British reached Conquered, they searched
the town for weapons, but they also sent seven companies
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to the north Bridge. Four continued on once they crossed
the north Bridge and three were made. Now, the reason
why those four went on there was a colonel James Barrett,
who had a lot of weapons stashed his farm. So
you had three companies. They remained behind on the bridge.
Now about four hundred militiamen. And they weren't just some conquered,
they were from other towns. Four hundred militiamen were watching
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them and conquered. A fire started.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Alan, thank you, my man. You can learn more on YouTube.
He has a page it's fantastic called the Sons of
History and he tells stories and stories. You will if
you love history, you can love his page.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Yeah, little time, Michael Berry's my George.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I can't excited?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Please?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Is you learning anything from the maccaberry show. Micaberary loved
to talk to people. He loved people. He based in
Houston in Texas, where he was the Mayor pro tem
and his wife was the Secretary of State and his
children is from Ethiopia. But if you got something to
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say about it, Come home with your bower head asked,
and tell the truth. Otherwise, just sit your ass downsoush.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight
ride of Paul Revere on the eighteenth of April and
seventy five. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers
that famous day and year. He said to his friend,
if the British march by land or sea from the
town tonight, hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
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of the north Church tower as a signal light one
if by land, and two if by sea, and I
on the opposite shore, will be ready to ride and
spread the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm, for
the country folk to be up and to arm.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Alan Joaquim of the YouTube page, the YouTube channel, the
Sons of Liberty at Epoch Times, and much more. In
two days will be the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. Alan, take us
in a few moments. It's important, I think, to understand
or remember that we're talking about the spring of seventeen
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seventy five, the colonists, and as you note is a
civil war. Do not declare independence from the king for
over a year. So for a year they are fighting
against their countrymen. Talk a little bit about what's happening
in the mindset to get to the idea that we
will be our own country and are actually not country
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confederacy of states, and what's going on on the battlefield.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Well, you know, the fighting kept getting worse. A lot
of people were saying, especially Benjamin Franklin, that what happened
at Bunker Hill on June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five, was
at a much larger outreach and there was a lot
of infighting Pennsylvania. There was Pennsylvania delegates in South Carolina
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delegates that were meeting at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia,
that the idea of a separation from Britain was unheard of.
They were not going to do it. We're proud British
citizens were part of the British empires, the greatest empire
in the world. And they again they did not know
that the king was behind all the oppression that was
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being put upon the Thirteen Colonies during the so so
again they were still loyal to the king. Now in
the Second Continental Congress. They sent what was known as
the Olive Branch petition to the king. When when he
got when the when the delegates got a response, this
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is where the king said that a rebellion is taking
place and everybody needs you know, every participant needs to
be hanged unless you come back to me and I
will I will hold you in my bosom and I
will forgive you. But that was when, you know, that
was when they knew that the king was against them.
He even made proclamations in parliament calling the the rebels treasonous.
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They were traders to they were traders to the king.
There were traders to the empire. And then a man
by the name of Thomas Paine wrote a book called
Common Sense, and in that book he basically stated, in
layman's terms, look, why do we have a king, and
especially one that's inherited. Why can't we just have our
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own country, you know, a republic or you know there's
there's just why are you doing that? There's no reason.
Why are you giving this one family all these benefits.
So that really changed the minds of a lot of people.
But there was no rush, and even just prior to
the vote for independence in July of seventeen seventy six,
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there were still not enough votes to declare a unanimous
declaration of independence. So it took a lot of the fighting.
It took a a lot of people trying to persuade them,
and you know, and the Royal Navy where they were
doing things. Modern Portland, Maine was put to the torch
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by the British Navy. So it was acts such as
that which is what really persuaded my majority to finally
declare themselves independent or to support independence.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Alan Waqum i guest. The Sons of Liberty YouTube channel
is his channel.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Alan, We're talking about such of history.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Sons of History, Sorry, Sons of History YouTube channel. We're
talking about a mighty British army fighting at that point,
what was not even conscript or prepared or trained as
an army. Talk a little bit about how it was
that the colonists were able to hold their own.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Well, what I they did a lot of training, and
what I was going to mention real quick was is
that when they saw that they thought that the town
was burning, the town of conquered was being put to
the torch by the Red Coats, and so they marched
towards the bridge, and one of the British Red Coats
just fired his weapon without any orders, and then there
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was another volley against the approaching colonials. A couple of
men were killed, and the militiamen, one of them by
the name of Major John Budrick, said, fire, fellow soldiers,
for God's sake, fire and they opened fire on the
British Red Coats. The Red Coats fled, and from that
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point all the way to Boston was a sixteen mile
gauntlet of four thousand angry militiamen just attacked the Red
Coats all the way back to Boston. Had it not
been for this one guy named Lord Hugh Percy, who
brought a brigade to rescue them, they would have that
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entire force would have either been wiped out or surrendered.
But they were shooting at them from behind every tree.
I mean, it was guerrilla warfare against the retreating Red
Coats all the way from conquer to Boston. Now they
were able to also hold their own at Bunker Hill
until they ran out of powder. The Americans captured for Ticonderoga,
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so there were a lot of successes by these men.
And also when we captured an entire army in Saratoga.
It compelled the French and then eventually the Spaniards to
join the cause and to declare war on Great Britain
and help the United States. So we were able to
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hold our own because George Washington TB. Came the commander
of the Continental Army. He took over the army that
was besieging Boston, and what he did what's known as
the Fabian strategy. He knew that he couldn't fight Britain's
army one on one. He knew that they were weaker.
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So what he would do is he would attack and
then withdraw. They called it the Fabian strategy, came from
the from Roman history, and he just kept doing it,
kept doing it until eventually at Yorktown, with the aid
of the French army, they surrounded Cornwallis at Yorktown, and
this was in seventeen eighty one, and Yorktown, with the
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help also of the French navy, trapping them in Yorktown,
Cornwallace surrendered and that was pretty much it. There were
other skirmishes in battles throughout the South, but by then,
by seventeen eighty one, the British had had enough of war.
They were also at war with France, Spain, the Netherlands
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that they were like, okay, seventeen eighty three, they signed
the peace treaty with the United States recognized this as
a legitimate country, and we became a nation. We were
no longer at war with Britain, not at the time,
but that's how it progressed.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The Sons of History YouTube channel Alan Joaquim leading, of course,
upon independence, to the creation of the bylaws for the nation,
which we came to call the Constitution, the first ten
amendments to which the Bill of Rights. And here we
are today coming up charging for tortilla chips at a
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tex mex restaurant. Blasphemy
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
So Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
When you tell somebody something, it depends on what part
of the United States you're standing in. That's it just
how dumb you are.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
There's a nexcent where come from.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Seeing somebody in this society starts with education.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well, first of all, thank you for the question.
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And I hope your family is okay and your home
is okay, and you all helped us win in twenty
twenty and we don't do it again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You better thank our union member for sick leave.
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You better thank a union member for paid leave. You
better thank a union member for vacation.
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Time with this uh accident. We're right. I'm proud to
be a bartender.
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Ain't nothing wrong with that.
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There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other
people to buy. There is nothing wrong with preparing.
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The food that your neighbors will eat.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
There is nothing wrong with driving the buses that.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Take your family to work.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
There is nothing wrong with being a working person in
the United States of America, and there is everything dignified
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I don't feel no ways tired.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I can't you bar we have our.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Of living and everything is done with athern accent.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Where I'm a rather religious viewer of Jeopardy, And I
was troubled with Alex Trebek's death because Alex Trebek created
(02:29):
at the end of the day, like everything else, just
a TV show. But for the cult of Jeopardy, it's
so much more. There are people that spend their entire lives.
They kind of put their careers on the side to
prepare for the day they will be on Jeopardy. Somebody
a couple of weeks ago he was a returning champion.
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His mother had been on Jeopardy in two thousand and one,
his father had been on Jeopardy in nineteen ninety three.
I've never seen anything like that, but there is. There
is a cult is one word. Tribe is a word
that marketers what you tried out for Jeopardy. I'm a
guest who didn't make it well, I mean ninety nine,
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I have one hundred don't And I have a number
of listeners who when we delve off into history, we'll
send an email. You know you've hit a mark with me.
I do this. There are different groups of people. There
are the re enactors, there are the people who go
and get a PhD. There are continuing educations. There are
people for whom the study of history is just a wonderful,
(03:42):
glorious experience. It's a drug. It's it's if you don't
get it, you don't get it. And I understand that,
and that doesn't make you any worse than the next guy.
But for those who do, they do. So this next
segment is for you folks. You know that America's independence
July fourth, seventeen seventy six. So in nineteen seventy six
(04:03):
we got to celebrate the CSQUA centennial, two centuries of
a declared independent nation. So it may seem odd that
in a year ending in five, twenty twenty five, that
we are in two days celebrating the two hundred fiftieth
anniversary of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and William
(04:25):
Dawes and doctor Samuel Prescott. The following day will be
April nineteenth, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
beginning of the Revolutionary War, the result of which would
be our independence in the creation of the greatest nation
on Earth. Our next guest is a fellow who does
what a lot of you would like to do. I think,
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and that is write about it, talk about it, visit sites,
interview people, live it. Sort of an Alex Trebek lifestyle
of American history. His name is Alan Joaquim. His YouTube
page is the Sons of History. He writes for the
I don't know if it's epoch or epoch times how
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they pronounce it exactly, but Alan, welcome to the program.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Thank you, Michael. It's a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I know that you have a busy week this week
in coming days with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Let's start and I'll let you take it to the break.
It's three minutes till we go to the break. In
the next segment, let's talk about the Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere, Dawes and Samuel Prescott. What was happening at.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
That time, Well, at the time, Boston was under military occupation.
General Thomas Gage replaced the civilian governor and became the
military governor as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, and
he was there to enforce the coercive or the intolerable acts,
(05:56):
depending on who you talk to, which punished Boston forced
you to quarter soldiers the civilian governments were shut down.
They could only meet once a year to elect representatives
for the following year. And in the process of enforcing
these laws, the people of the colony was called Massachusetts
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Bay at the time. The people of Massachusetts Bay were
defying General Gage, and in the process they started collecting weaponry.
So Gage was trying to put a stop to that,
and he was doing everything in his power to take arms,
or confiscate arms away from the militias that were forming
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all over the province. And there had been previous attempts
of confiscation. One was successful. There were a few more
that were not, such as what happened in Salem on
February the twenty sixth. They called it Leslie's retreat. And
throughout the Gage was learning from his mistakes, and so
(07:03):
were the Sons of Liberty. Now they knew that that
Gauge was up to something, and there was a large,
large stash of weaponry stored at Concord. But at the
same time you also had two fugitives by the name
of John Hancock and Samuel Adams who were staying in Lexington.
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So when doctor Joseph Warren, who was running the Sons
of Liberty in Boston was receiving reports that the British
were up to something. They knew that a big operation
was about to happen. They just didn't know what, and
they weren't for sure. They could only guess. So on
the eighteenth of April, Doctor Warren sent William Dawes through
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the southern portion of Boston. Boston was pretty much like
an island. There was just like a thin strip of
land that connected Boston to the mainland. So he sent
William Dawes and he was able to get through minutes
before Gage shutdown the neck.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Hold right there, I hear the Alan McKim is our guest.
In two days we will commemorate two hundred and fifty
years from Paul Revere's famous bride. Will discuss that and
the Revolutionary War beginning the next day. Coming up here.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Listen for the dial tone. It sounds like this the
Michael Verry Show chop tone indicates everything is ready for
your call.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
The fact that Weezer sang a song called the British
are Coming. There was a big pop band called Paul
Revere and the Raiders. The Beastie Boys sang a song
called Paul Revere which was a spoof on how they
came together, and so many more tells you that the
story of Paul Revere and the two others who wrote
DAWs and Prescott, who are far less famous, are indelibly
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in print on the minds of every American. And for
me that started as a child. My mom would quote
the line I didn't know where it was from at
the time. Listen, my children, and you shall hear of
the midnight ride of Paul Revere on the eighteenth of
April in seventy five. Hardily a man is now alive
who remembers that famous day and year. That's a reference
(09:21):
to April eighteenth, seventeen seventy five. Hardly a man is
now alive because long William Longworth William Longfellow's Wadsworth Longfellow's
poem came out in eighteen sixty, which is eighty five
years after that ride. Sort of interesting that Dudley Hudson
(09:43):
was our guest a few moments ago, and he was
eighty five, and it had been seventy eight years since
the explosion of Texas City, so you kind of get
the idea on the spatial reference. Paul Revere's ride probably
more famous today. I would argue, we'll see what our
guest thinks because of Longfellow's poem than anything else. And
(10:07):
that's what really enshrined Paul Revere as the star of
that day when there were three actually making the rides.
Alan you were bringing us up to the moment. I
find it interesting when I give a speech sometimes I'll
talk about DAWs without giving his name, and how he
went up into the belfry and he is the one
(10:29):
who wiggles his way through the British troops and manages
to send the alarm so that the troops could be
sent by the fellows. I think Hancock was among the
group that was organizing those I maybe getting some of
this wrong because they didn't have the resources to prepare
for an attack at land and sea, so they had
(10:52):
to get that right. And he was the noble spy
who made that happen. But if you would talk a
little bit about.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
That, okay, well on you want to talk about what
William Dawes himself.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Or yeah, I think Dawes deserves some credit because Revere,
through poetry, I would argue, gets all of the credit,
and Dawes, in my opinion, was as important as anyone.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Well, I would say Paul Revere did more. And I'll
explain why. Because when Dawes wiggled his way through, as
you were saying, and you're and you're right about that,
and his mission was to go talk to Hancock and
John Hancock and Samuel Adams and Lexington, to warn them
that it's it looks like something is about to happen.
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We just don't know what. So when he so he
took his time, and he did. He did not know
that the that the Redcoats had mobilized. He had already
he was already on his way towards Lexington and conquered
when either there's a book by Derek Beck who states
that it was Warren who saw the brit the Red
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Coats loading onto the boats. Others have stated that they
don't know for sure who it was, but they loaded,
but the Red Coats were loading onto the boats and
their mission was to go confiscate and destroy the weapons
and conquered. Now Warren again didn't know what it was for.
But this was before that, this turn, This happened after
DAWs had already left. When when they saw the Britain,
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when they saw the Red Coats loading onto the boats.
That's when they summoned Paul Revere and told them what
was going on. So then Paul Revere had already set
up an very intricate, intricate network system of messengers and writers.
Revere was the one that was responsible for that. And
what he did was he contacted some guys in Charlestown,
(12:44):
which was across the river, and he said that if
Gage seals off the city, what we're going to do.
And what we're going to do is if once the
Red Coats are mobilized and they are marching through the neck,
we will we will light up one lantern at the
Old North Church, the Old North Church steeple. This is
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in case I can't get out. This is what Rivere
was saying. If they are if they go by boat,
then we will light up two can't t lanterns. So
the people in Charlestown knew this, so they were on
the lookout every night for any lanterns that appeared at
the Old North Church. He then he contacted a guy
named Robert Newman and Captain John Pulling, friends of his.
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Now Newman was the sexton for the Old North Church.
So those two and along with Thomas Bernard Bernard stood
guard and Newman and pulling, they went up the steeple
with the lanterns, and they held out the lanterns for
only one minute. Now the people in Charlestown saw the lanterns,
but so did everybody else. The Red Coat saw it,
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Loyalists saw it, so they had to They did it
for one minute, and then they went back inside because
they were hanging outside the window. They went back inside
and the Red Coats had reached the front door of
the church, so they had to scramble to the other
side of the church. They found a window through the altar.
They threw a bench, climbed on top, opened the window,
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and jumped out and made their escape. Revere had two
friends of his rode him across the river. They had
to go around a big warship known as the HMS.
Somerset was a man of war. Once he got to Charlestown,
he met with a Colonel William Connett and a Richard Devons.
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They gave him a horse, but Richard Devons warned him
be careful. There are British horsemen all over the place,
and they're going to intercept you if they catch you,
So he got on his horse, and sure enough, within
minutes he was intercepted by two British horsemen and he
was able to make his escape. He took a more
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northerly route and from there that's where he did the alarm.
He would he didn't or shout the British are coming,
because they all they consider themselves British, but he did
say the regulars are out, or the or the Regulars
are coming, or the Red Coats are coming. Turn out
to your militia. And he did that all the way
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until he got to Lexington. He beat Dawes. He gets
to Lexington, they're staying at a Reverend Jonas Clark's house.
He wakes everybody up, tells them that the regulars are coming,
to get out and flee to Olburn or some other
nearby town. Minutes later Dawes shows up. Now the Lexington
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militia was warned that the Red Coats were coming, and
Dawes I hear the music again.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
So the colonies were occupied, Americans were not yet Americans,
and the Revolutionary War would begin the following day. That
discussion coming.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Out every prenible picture and if you don't like them,
we'll reprint them, or rEFInd your money, no matter who's
fault it is, show your photo matters.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Named town just to ride the pone.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
There are fifty six chalk pits surrounding Stonehenge that came
to be known as the Aubrey Holes, which was a
tribute to John Aubrey, who was what was known as
an antiquarian. He was an archaeologist, He was a recorder
of things, and he famously said, how these curiosities would
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be quite forgot? Did I not? Did not such idle
fellows as I put them down? How these curiosities would
be quite forgot? Did not such idle fellows as I
put them down? That was referring to a piece called
Brief Lives, which was a series of biographical sketches that
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he is well known for. But at the time, I'm
sure he was considered quite the quirky figure for taking
notes of what was going on around him. But if
he hadn't, if no one had recorded the stories of
Paul Revere and William Dawes Prescott and the Revolution, where
would we be today? If no one had written about
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the Texas City explosion and what happened and what people
wore and what the roofs look like. I consider that
to be a noble and admirable thing to do to
record history. But then there is the question of who
will keep that history alive. Alan Joaquim has the YouTube channel,
(17:40):
the Sons of History. You can learn more about him there,
and he writes for the Epoch Times as well, and
he's our guest. And so Alan, we have this incursion
by the British on their cousins, who themselves consider themselves
British or English in most cases in the colonies, and
now they have decided the following day we're going to
fight them. This is going to be a pitched battle.
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Really a David and Goliath, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
It pretty much is. And it was also considered a
civil war. The the the colonists saw themselves as fighting
for the king. They didn't they had no idea that
the king was behind much of of the oppression that
was being put onto the onto the Thirteen Colonies. They
thought it was strictly Parliament doing all the work. So yeah,
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they were they were still loyal to the king at
this point. So that's you know, that's why they really
called the Revolutionary War the first American Civil War.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Describe how that war breaks out in the early battles
of it.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Okay, so you mentioned something about Revere. Did Dows do
as much as Revere? When when when they Revere set
up this this really intricate system of networking. When when
he did the alarm in each town? Then have you
ever seen those video demonstrations of what a chain reaction
looks like? Especially? Okay, So that's what it was with
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the messenger system. So each town he went into, those
towns then sent out messengers, and each town that those
messengers reached, they themselves sent out messengers. So you ended
up having the entire region, even up into New Hampshire,
where everybody knew that the Redcoats were on the march.
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So when now Prescott, now now they met up with
Samuel Prescott, they and Dawes and Revere kept going towards
Concord because they didn't really think that Hancock and Adams
were the primary target. They really felt that something was
going to happen in conquered with the weakery. Now on
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their way there, they were intercepted by about ten British
horsemen and Paul Revere was captured. Dawes escaped, lost his horse.
But Prescott managed to escape and he kept going to Concord,
and he set the alarm, or sounded the alarm and
Concord so they were ready. They hid the weapons, and
the militias, the militias of Concord gathered. Now the British
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were marching down. They called it the Lexington Road. Now
they call it the Battle Road. But they were marching.
There were about seven hundred of them, and Colonel Francis
Smith was the leader. They were hearing alarm bells, they
were hearing gunshots, they were hearing all kinds of noises
around to indicate that their little secret mission was no
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longer secret. So Colonel Smith ordered a man back to
go to Boston to go get some reinforcements. And he
sent a guy named Major Pitcairn to send the six
leading companies on up ahead to secure the bridges of Conquered.
Now these were the guys, the six companies led by
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Major Pitcairn. When they arrived in Lexington, which is right
on the road two Conquered, they approached what was known
as the Lexington Green when they looked to when they
looked on Lexington Green, they saw seventy seven men armed
men standing now. They were not standing on the road
obstructing their path. They were off on the green. And
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the reason why they did that was it was to
kind of again, nobody knew what their mission was, but
the seventy seven men, they were under the command of
Captain John Parker, they were standing there. It was kind
of like a peaceful protest. If you try to come
into our town, we will defend our town. Well, the
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Pitcairn's men could have kept going down the Conquered Road
when from Lexington Conquered was known as the Conquered Road.
They could have kept going, but they didn't. They decided
to veer off into the right. They marched onto Lexington
Green and got onto the faces of the seventy seven
Lexington militiamen that were standing there, and Captain park Or
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told his men, don't harass them, let them pass. But
he said, and he also said, don't fire unless fired upon.
But if they mean to have a war, let it
begin here now. Captain Parker also wasn't stupid. He could
see that he was heavily outnumbered. The major Pitcaring came
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and yelled at them, telling them to disperse, drop your
weapons and disperse. He was yelling, you rebels, you scum,
and you said, you know, disperse right now and drop
your weapons. Well they knew they had no chance, so
so they were ordered to go ahead and disperse, take
their weapons with them, and disperse now. Somewhere nobody knows
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where it came from. A shot was fired, and without
any orders given, the Red Coats just opened up on
the dispersing militiamen killed about they killed eight men. There
was the whole Lexington Green area, and there were onlookers
all over the place watching this whole thing. The Red
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Coasts ran into the smoke and they started bayoneting any
man that any militiamen that they could find. When it
was all said and done, eight men were dead or dying,
and ten were wounded. The rest of the rest of
the force. The British forces showed up and then together
they marched all the way to conquer. Now, when the
news of what happening Lexington was spread out, and it
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was in every town in the whole area, they knew
about the march, but then they heard about what happened
at Lexington, how a lot of Americans were killed. They
all mobilized and many of them started to March. And
what happened was when the British reached Conquered, they searched
the town for weapons, but they also sent seven companies
(23:54):
to the north Bridge. Four continued on once they crossed
the north Bridge and three were made. Now, the reason
why those four went on there was a colonel James Barrett,
who had a lot of weapons stashed his farm. So
you had three companies. They remained behind on the bridge.
Now about four hundred militiamen. And they weren't just some conquered,
they were from other towns. Four hundred militiamen were watching
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them and conquered. A fire started.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Alan, thank you, my man. You can learn more on YouTube.
He has a page it's fantastic called the Sons of
History and he tells stories and stories. You will if
you love history, you can love his page.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Yeah, little time, Michael Berry's my George.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I can't excited?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Please?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Is you learning anything from the maccaberry show. Micaberary loved
to talk to people. He loved people. He based in
Houston in Texas, where he was the Mayor pro tem
and his wife was the Secretary of State and his
children is from Ethiopia. But if you got something to
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say about it, Come home with your bower head asked,
and tell the truth. Otherwise, just sit your ass downsoush.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight
ride of Paul Revere on the eighteenth of April and
seventy five. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers
that famous day and year. He said to his friend,
if the British march by land or sea from the
town tonight, hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
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of the north Church tower as a signal light one
if by land, and two if by sea, and I
on the opposite shore, will be ready to ride and
spread the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm, for
the country folk to be up and to arm.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Alan Joaquim of the YouTube page, the YouTube channel, the
Sons of Liberty at Epoch Times, and much more. In
two days will be the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. Alan, take us
in a few moments. It's important, I think, to understand
or remember that we're talking about the spring of seventeen
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seventy five, the colonists, and as you note is a
civil war. Do not declare independence from the king for
over a year. So for a year they are fighting
against their countrymen. Talk a little bit about what's happening
in the mindset to get to the idea that we
will be our own country and are actually not country
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confederacy of states, and what's going on on the battlefield.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Well, you know, the fighting kept getting worse. A lot
of people were saying, especially Benjamin Franklin, that what happened
at Bunker Hill on June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five, was
at a much larger outreach and there was a lot
of infighting Pennsylvania. There was Pennsylvania delegates in South Carolina
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delegates that were meeting at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia,
that the idea of a separation from Britain was unheard of.
They were not going to do it. We're proud British
citizens were part of the British empires, the greatest empire
in the world. And they again they did not know
that the king was behind all the oppression that was
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being put upon the Thirteen Colonies during the so so
again they were still loyal to the king. Now in
the Second Continental Congress. They sent what was known as
the Olive Branch petition to the king. When when he
got when the when the delegates got a response, this
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is where the king said that a rebellion is taking
place and everybody needs you know, every participant needs to
be hanged unless you come back to me and I
will I will hold you in my bosom and I
will forgive you. But that was when, you know, that
was when they knew that the king was against them.
He even made proclamations in parliament calling the the rebels treasonous.
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They were traders to they were traders to the king.
There were traders to the empire. And then a man
by the name of Thomas Paine wrote a book called
Common Sense, and in that book he basically stated, in
layman's terms, look, why do we have a king, and
especially one that's inherited. Why can't we just have our
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own country, you know, a republic or you know there's
there's just why are you doing that? There's no reason.
Why are you giving this one family all these benefits.
So that really changed the minds of a lot of people.
But there was no rush, and even just prior to
the vote for independence in July of seventeen seventy six,
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there were still not enough votes to declare a unanimous
declaration of independence. So it took a lot of the fighting.
It took a a lot of people trying to persuade them,
and you know, and the Royal Navy where they were
doing things. Modern Portland, Maine was put to the torch
(29:26):
by the British Navy. So it was acts such as
that which is what really persuaded my majority to finally
declare themselves independent or to support independence.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Alan Waqum i guest. The Sons of Liberty YouTube channel
is his channel.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Alan, We're talking about such of history.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Sons of History, Sorry, Sons of History YouTube channel. We're
talking about a mighty British army fighting at that point,
what was not even conscript or prepared or trained as
an army. Talk a little bit about how it was
that the colonists were able to hold their own.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Well, what I they did a lot of training, and
what I was going to mention real quick was is
that when they saw that they thought that the town
was burning, the town of conquered was being put to
the torch by the Red Coats, and so they marched
towards the bridge, and one of the British Red Coats
just fired his weapon without any orders, and then there
(30:30):
was another volley against the approaching colonials. A couple of
men were killed, and the militiamen, one of them by
the name of Major John Budrick, said, fire, fellow soldiers,
for God's sake, fire and they opened fire on the
British Red Coats. The Red Coats fled, and from that
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point all the way to Boston was a sixteen mile
gauntlet of four thousand angry militiamen just attacked the Red
Coats all the way back to Boston. Had it not
been for this one guy named Lord Hugh Percy, who
brought a brigade to rescue them, they would have that
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entire force would have either been wiped out or surrendered.
But they were shooting at them from behind every tree.
I mean, it was guerrilla warfare against the retreating Red
Coats all the way from conquer to Boston. Now they
were able to also hold their own at Bunker Hill
until they ran out of powder. The Americans captured for Ticonderoga,
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so there were a lot of successes by these men.
And also when we captured an entire army in Saratoga.
It compelled the French and then eventually the Spaniards to
join the cause and to declare war on Great Britain
and help the United States. So we were able to
(31:56):
hold our own because George Washington TB. Came the commander
of the Continental Army. He took over the army that
was besieging Boston, and what he did what's known as
the Fabian strategy. He knew that he couldn't fight Britain's
army one on one. He knew that they were weaker.
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So what he would do is he would attack and
then withdraw. They called it the Fabian strategy, came from
the from Roman history, and he just kept doing it,
kept doing it until eventually at Yorktown, with the aid
of the French army, they surrounded Cornwallis at Yorktown, and
this was in seventeen eighty one, and Yorktown, with the
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help also of the French navy, trapping them in Yorktown,
Cornwallace surrendered and that was pretty much it. There were
other skirmishes in battles throughout the South, but by then,
by seventeen eighty one, the British had had enough of war.
They were also at war with France, Spain, the Netherlands
(33:01):
that they were like, okay, seventeen eighty three, they signed
the peace treaty with the United States recognized this as
a legitimate country, and we became a nation. We were
no longer at war with Britain, not at the time,
but that's how it progressed.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The Sons of History YouTube channel Alan Joaquim leading, of course,
upon independence, to the creation of the bylaws for the nation,
which we came to call the Constitution, the first ten
amendments to which the Bill of Rights. And here we
are today coming up charging for tortilla chips at a
(33:39):
tex mex restaurant. Blasphemy
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