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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Mon Jul 1, 2013, 12:05 AM Jul 2013

History note: Paul Revere didn't warn anybody of anything. He was arrested [View all]

Longfellow basically made that whole thing up.

EDIT: Good catch by Manny: the arrest was in Lincoln, east of Concord, not Watertown, west of Boston. So he did warn about half of Middlesex.

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History note: Paul Revere didn't warn anybody of anything. He was arrested [View all] Recursion Jul 2013 OP

Uh... No. MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #1

Well, he would have warned people in Cambridge (then New Town) and Watertown Recursion Jul 2013 #3

Uh... No. MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #4

Yeah. There's a little plaque where it happened Recursion Jul 2013 #5

Then he was captured out by Lexington/Concord, not Watertown MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #6

Huh, Lincoln? OK, so he would have also warned about half of Middlesex. Correcting OP. Recursion Jul 2013 #7

There's no good Armenian grub in Weston. Remember that. MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #8

My larger point was that Longfellow idolized one out of dozens of people Recursion Jul 2013 #9

Do yourself a favor - read the book I recommended MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #10

Will do; I find Revere and the Adamses fascinating Recursion Jul 2013 #12

Let me know if you come up Boston way MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #14

You remember Watertown? The place where the good citizens were "tools" for allowing the MADem Jul 2013 #2

Next someone is going to tell me George Washington was not the first President. William769 Jul 2013 #11

Methinks you miss the point. n/t cali Jul 2013 #13