Michael Hattem
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But I think, you know, it does give you a sense that he had been around for a long time. He had been prominent on the political scene, certainly maybe not right from 1765. But of course, you know, he's the one who does the famous engraving of the Boston Massacre, the controversial bloody massacre engraving, which then spreads throughout the colonies and sort of raises awareness, but also concern.
It's one of the most masterful pieces of propaganda of the revolutionary era, that woodcut engraving.
Yeah, and that's kind of the beginning really of what was one of his main roles in sort of what we might think of as revolutionary Boston as a careful observer, let's say, right? Eventually he would go on to manage this sort of loose group of mechanics, fellow mechanics, and mechanics is an 18th century term for somebody who worked with their hands, so basically an artisan.
Das Gruppe von Mechanikern, die sich in den 1770er- und 1770er-Jahre am Green Dragon Tavern kennengelernt haben. Sie haben es sich selbst genommen, sich als ständige Observer der britischen Armee in Boston umzusetzen. Die Stadt hatte natürlich seit 1768 von 3.000-4.000 britischen Truppen besorgt. Boston in the early 1770s is a relatively small town. We call it a city, but it's like New York City.
It has under 20,000 residents. So the equivalent of a modern small town, really. So you can imagine having that many soldiers coming. den Einfluss, den das haben würde. Und natürlich gab es viele Konflikte zwischen den Städtebürgern und den Soldaten.
Und als der Konflikt mit Britannien aufgeräumt wurde, besonders nach den kohärenten Taten, nach dem Boston Tea Party und den kohärenten Taten aus Britannien, die effektiv die Berge von Boston schlossen, die Massachusetts-kolonialen Regierungen schlossen und die Städtebegriffe schlossen. Also ist es wirklich nach dem, dass die Bemühungen von Revere und seiner Gruppe Mechaniker,
Yeah, he was part of the Sons of Liberty eventually, and...
Ja, er war, du weißt, wir sprechen über die Mittagsreise. Er hat viele Reisen gemacht. Mm-hmm. There was a sense that this is late 1774, and so the coercive acts have already gone into effect. And already by the end of the year of 74, the people all over Massachusetts are expecting something. von Gage, von General Gage und den britischen Armeen.
Sie machten Inkursionen in das, was wir als Landkreis denken würden. Und es gab eine erfolgreiche Verschmutzung von Munitionen, nur im Nordwesten, außerhalb der Stadt. Und das war ein weiterer Versuch, dass Gage Truppen nach New Hampshire senden würde, um die Munitionen, die in dieser eher tenuierlichen Situation in Fort William & Mary waren, zu schützen.
Und Revere reist da hoch, um die Wigs zu warnen, was passiert. Und letztendlich you know, a couple hundred militiamen essentially assault the fort and seize the gunpowder. And, you know, if you think about it, that's preceding Lexington and Concord by three or four months. So it's really one of the earliest overt acts of armed rebellion by the colonists. And Revere's at the heart of that.
Yeah, really since the fall of 74, you might say that the countryside was basically on a war footing.
Die Städte haben Munition gestockt, sie haben Munition gestockt, ihre Militärs hatten regelmäßiges Training. Wir haben diese mythologisierte Vorstellung darüber, was in Lexington und Concord passiert ist, dass die Minutemen aufgestanden sind, und sie waren nur normale Landwirte, die keine militärische Erfahrung hatten, die aufgestanden sind und für ihre Freiheiten kämpften.
Aber das macht ihnen wirklich eine Art Verschuldung. Sie hatten schon Monate vorbereitet. Ein guter Teil der Miliz hatte auch etwas Erfahrung in den siebten Jahren der Krieg. Die Landwirtschaft war also wirklich auf dieser Art von Kriegsflügel für Monate vor dem Anfang des Abends im April.
Well, I mean, they had been on alarm for more than a week, really, sort of expecting some kind of movement or incursion from the British. Boston is, like I said, is a small town, and the British army there is going to muster 700 troops. und müssen sie in die Mainlande bringen und für einen Marsch vorbereiten.
Diese Vorbereitungen werden nicht in der Stadt bemerkt werden, aber nicht nur weil Revere und sein Netzwerk von Mechanikern, die ständig auf der Wache sind, aber sie sind nicht die Einzigen. Die meisten Boston-Wigs sind Leute, die sogar sympathisch mit der Wig-Krise sind. were also constantly watching what the British Army was doing. So it was really hard for them to do anything in secret.
And some movements to prepare for the eventual raid on Concord began about a week in advance. And so the alarm was already raised. And Revere made a previous ride out to Lexington about a week before April 8th. So he rides out there thinking that the attack was imminent. But of course it was still going to be about another week and a half.
You mean by the militia? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't the plan necessarily to engage with the British Army, right? I mean, Captain Parker, who leads the militia at Lexington, famously orders his 60 militiamen on the green not to fire unless fired upon. He says, don't molest the troops, let them pass by. Those orders are repeatedly given throughout the whole early morning and day of the 19th.
So it seems pretty clear that there wasn't an intention on the part of the militia themselves to, say, start a war. But also it is the case that we'd had these number of alarms, the Portsmouth Alarm, the Salem Alarm, So there was a heightened intensity on the part of the people in the countryside and who were growing increasingly frustrated under the yoke of the coercive acts.
And so while they didn't go out there to start a war, They weren't going out there at that point to necessarily to avoid one at all costs either. Right. There's a great animosity between what the British soldiers would call the country people of these towns and the regulars.
I mean, you know, there's so much animosity that had been built up over the previous seven years, but then especially just in the previous, you know, six months to a year, that it's really in some sense a sort of powder keg waiting to explode. Yeah.
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