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https://www.biography.com/news/paul-reveres-ride-facts
And some of the details of the ride, which were quite different than the famous poem. The ride is reenacted every year, and they stop at Gaffey Funeral Home in Medford Square. The funeral home was once the site of the Isaac Hall House, home to a commander of the Medford Minutemen during the Revolutionary War.
Medford residents have come to know the house because every Patriots Day, a costumed rider on horseback stops at the site, recreating Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride from Boston to Lexington..
Other things Medford is famous for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medford,_Massachusetts
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Happy Independence Day!
Yesterday Catherine and I canoed a stretch of the Concord River.
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Our route took us through Minuteman National Park, and under the Old North Bridge.
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A little American history refresher - this is where things really got started a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed. On the night of April 18-19, 1775, about 700 British left Boston and began marching to Concord to seize powder and cannon that the Colonists had stashed in preparation for conflict. Paul Revere and William Dawes rode out that night ahead of the troops sounding the alarm. At dawn the troops were met by about 80 militia on Lexington Green. There was a skirmish, and 8 Colonists were killed.
The British continued to Concord. Concord and Lincoln militias, having heard of the firing in Lexington, marched out to meet the British, but heavily outnumbered, they turned back and occupied a hill overlooking the North Bridge (to the left in the photo above). The British left about 100 men to hold the North Bridge while the rest of the force headed into town. The Concord and Lincoln militias were joined by 5 companies of Minutemen and additional militia from Acton and Bedford, numbering up to 400 men. When the British in town began burning gun carriages, sending up smoke, the Minutemen thought they were burning the town and they advanced on the bridge. The British took up positions on the right bank, and the Minutemen began marching across. Shots were fired, two Minutemen fell. The Colonists responded with a volley of their own, wounding half the British officers and killing three soldiers (two are still buried near the bridge, the other in Concord Center).
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The British retreated into town, joining up with the rest of the force, and began the long march back to Boston. It became a running battle, with the British set upon by Massachusetts militias most of the way back. By the time they reached Boston and Charlestown, they had lost over 100 men, and almost 200 wounded. The Colonists lost about 50 men, and 40 wounded.
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The next morning, April 20, 1775, the British in Boston found themselves surrounded by 15,000 colonial troops. The Seige of Boston, and the Revolutionary War, had begun.
(Credit to Wikipedia for helping me with the details).
Pretty amazing stuff, we learn all this in school, but then we forget a lot of it. I think it's good to be reminded, and with all the divisiveness in this country today, to reflect on how it all began.
As a side note, Laura and I are from Mystic (Medford), top right on the map.
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