Paul Revere's Midnight Ride is a legend of the American Revolutionary War - galloping through the Massachusetts' dark to warn Sam Adams, John Hancock and the rest that the British were coming. The next morning, those Patriots in Lexington and Concord were ready for battle. But what really happened? Who was Paul Revere? Why has his name gone down in history?Don's guest is Michael Hattem, historian of the American revolution and author of The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History.Produced by Freddy Chick. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.American History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
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Es ist der 18. April 1775, die Nacht bevor der Krieg in Lexington und Concord, die Nacht bevor der Schuss um die Welt gehört wurde. In Boston, die schwarze Gruppe eines britischen Mannes der Krieg, fliegt in den Meer. Seine Masken und Sparren sind gegen den Mond ausgezeichnet. Während sie auf dem Meer sind, kann man Geräusche hinter den Wäldern der Barracks hören.
Britische Reguliere sind auf dem Weg, und die Leute von Boston, die guten Söhne der Freiheit, sind auf sie. Ein Hecht fährt sich von der Nordseerseite ab, galt durch die Nacht, um einen Marsch zu stehlen. Wenn die Soldaten in Lexington ankommen, als die Sonne beginnt zu steigen, werden sie eine Überraschung finden, die für sie wartet. This midnight ride is the stuff of poetry.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street. A shape in the moonlight. A bulk in the dark. And beneath from the pebbles in passing a spark. Struck out by a steed flying fearless in fleet. That was all. And yet, through the gloom and the light, the fate of a nation was riding that night. And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Saddled on the back of that horse, riding his way into legends and our history books, was none other than Paul Revere. Musik Welcome to American History Hit. I'm Don Wildman. Great to have you here. The year is 1775. In England, the Industrial Revolution has begun to rumble. Adam Smith is writing his economic treatise, The Wealth of Nations, while James Watt redesigns the steam engine.
Over in Vienna, an astonishing 19-year-old genius named Mozart has already cranked out his first 30 symphonies. King George III sees his British Empire expanding into the Pacific. Captain James Cook is lauded for adding Australia and New Zealand to the colonized jewels. However, here in North America there is terrible unrest, and not just the revolutionary kind.
A smallpox epidemic has taken hold that will last for seven years, killing upwards of 130,000 colonists and native peoples. It's salt in the wound for those unhappy Americans tilting towards a rebellion the British authorities are determined to crush. In these fateful days, a man and his horse will make history of legendary proportions.
Happened at the outbreak of the war in the wee hours of a Boston night. It is the story of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Who was Paul Revere? And what was his real role in the rebellion? And why did the story of his determined gallop, forgotten for more than a century after it happened, suddenly take hold in the American imagination when the nation stood on the brink of another terrible trial?
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