0:12 oh hey there, oh hey there. Why were you so like timid in that one? I don't know and I'm bradley this is History, buffoons, hello, how was your day? It was good I worked and then I worked more on different stuff. I feel like I have been working all day, because I've been up since 3.30. Hey, it's been almost 12 hours. Oh, thanks for putting it in perspective. Yes, you're welcome. I don't like that. I had a massage yesterday, yeah by a coworker, and it was a very good massage.

0:56 I enjoyed it immensely. But I am very sore today. Are you? I'm not, so I asked for like medium to firm pressure. Yeah. And I'm kind of a wimp because I was like go back to medium, Go back to medium. Not the firm, not the firm, that's funny I know what not to do next time. Well, at least you know for you, even though you said you like to give more firm, deep tissue type massages give more firm deep tissue type massages right? I I got to. I got to perform a firm to deep tissue this morning and it was fantastic and I really enjoyed it excellent and he said that there were techniques in there that no one's done for him ever before.

1:38 Well, that's good yeah positive feedback I'm happy about it well, good for you. Apparently it wants to tell me that this is being recorded. Yes, I know, thank you thank you so much, thank you much obliged so we are recording this over over zoom. We can't always meet up correct, so if the audio sounds different, I don't know if it would sound different, but that is why well, I'll do my best to make it sound like we're in the same room still psych okay so what oh?

2:25 My word bradley does all of the editing for us and I do and he's doing all the website stuff for us with a little bit of assistance from you yeah, and I'm doing all the like, more of the research and the social media stuff. So I think we've kind of split it down pretty good 50-50, I think. Well, we're trying. I mean, we don't want to make one person do more than they have to. It's a collaborative effort. We want to both. We both enjoy doing this, so we both want to put our best efforts in. So we've kind of go ahead ahead, yep well I'm not really a social media person I'm not either.

3:10 I'm probably even less than you, so yeah, so that's been interesting. Um, I've got a, a 21 year old co-worker and I'm like how do you do this thing on instagram? she's like you just hit this button, kate. That's's all you do there's just one button, seriously Just a button. Just a button. Well, I mean, if you're not used to it, how would you know that, though? I mean, I grew up with Facebook, so I know more about Facebook than anything else. I grew up with MySpace. Yeah, I actually didn't do a ton of myspace. I had a little bit. But tom was my friend tom if you don't know you have to look that up oh, tom was it.

3:55 Tom was everybody's friend. He's the one who created it oh, it's like um the guy who's who's on Facebook, who's everybody's friend. I don't know. I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is everybody's friend. There's somebody Maybe it's Myspace that I'm thinking of and I just don't remember. That's what it was. Which is par for the course. Yeah, she doesn't remember a lot. I'm surprised you remembered to do this today. It's in my calendar. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Twice, it's in my phone calendar and it's my written calendar. That's a lot of calendars, yeah double whammy Double whammy.

4:39 Well okay then double whammy, girl. Yeah, what do you got for us today? Today, yeah, I've got a story for you. I have. I have ears to listen to this story and a mouth to interject great, okay, great. So we are doing a story. I'm doing story on three different midnight rides from the 1770s you had mentioned this briefly to me, so I'm excited to learn about these midnight rides yeah, so this takes place during the american revolution, which I knew nothing about, um, so naturally I wanted to learn a little bit, and it's very, very interesting, um, and then I tried to look up some like documentaries and things on it, and there just wasn't any like good choices.

5:34 I mean I feel like there's a lot of choices on the American revolution. It's a pretty uh like yeah, but none that like grasped my interest. I couldn't even watch the Patriot online or on TV. That isn't a historical document, that's a movie. I know, but it's still entertainment. Well, I get that, but just you know, just want to make sure you didn't think that was like a documentary. Oh no, I knew that. Mel Gibson is an actor I would have liked to have been entertained by it. Are you not entertained? Okay, sorry anyways. Are you not entertained? Okay, anyway, so we are going to start with the Midnight Rides of 1775.

6:17 So picture this. I'm picturing it. So the year is 1775 and and we are in colonial Massachusetts, massachusetts. Okay, so winters are super long, harsh Summers are hot, humid Sounds, like everywhere else in the United States. Yeah, especially right now, holy balls. But the colonialist homes were modest so they were made of wood with a stone foundation and they had chimneys kind of in the center of their house, kind of like the heart of the home, for heating and cooking purposes. The children back then often helped with daily chores.

7:01 Young men went out in the field with their fathers daily chores. Young men went out in the field with their fathers. The girls stayed inside and learned domestic skills and they helped take care of the other children as well. The women were essential in the family's survival, so they would cook and clean, tend to the gardens, make clothing, clothing, and they would also help their husbands out in the field. Um, and then they would even help financially sometimes. Some of the wealthier women would manage estates and the poor women might spin and sell yard yarn yard and yarn and they they would also work in small shops, okay, um, men had occupations like farmer, blacksmith, shoemakers, carpenters.

7:48 In larger towns you'd also find like doctors, lawyers and ministers, sure Okay. So that's kind of like the timeframe that we're looking at and what life in colonials were Okay were okay so in 1775 there was a lot of discontent with british rule in the american colonies and they had been simmering for over a decade and it was kind of reaching like a boiling point. So there were some key factors that fueled their outrage. So the biggest thing is taxation yep, that was pretty much the start of most of it, right? Yeah.

8:28 So they argued that the British parliament was imposing taxes on them, such as the Stamp Act and the Townsend Act, without giving them any representation in parliament. They're just. They just said you have to do what I say, you don't get. You don't get a say in it. What was the Townsend Act? The Townsend Act imposed taxes on imported goods Okay, like glass, lead, paint, paper, tea, and it also established stricter revenue collection procedures. And the Stamp Act was an act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp on various forms of papers, documents and playing cards, of all things.

9:11 That's odd, and it was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling rather than colonial currency. Oh yeah, why make it easy? Yeah, exactly. So they all felt that they didn't have a say in any of these changes. So the colonists had a level of self-government themselves In their own colonial legislatures. But the British were increasingly trying to tighten control and restrict their autonomy.

9:52 So this also included the stationing of British troops In the colonies, which many colonists saw as a threat. Oh, yeah, because all of a sudden you got soldiers around you. There were also economic restrictions as a threat. Oh yeah, Because all of a sudden you got soldiers around you, Mm-hmm. There were also economic restrictions. There was a British policy called the Navigation Act which limited the colonists' ability to trade freely with other countries. Okay. So it was promoted and developed by English ships and shipping. So English this and English that right? Well, I mean, we all were. Technically. All the people started to hear English at one point, so I understand it.

10:36 But we were trying to get too comfortable without them. There was also a philosophical Button heads, yeah but like what's the word for that A philosophical like clash. Sure Clash in philosophical ideals. Anyway, you can edit that part out. I might keep that in you never know, Stay tuned, folks. So the colonists were increasingly influenced by enlightenment ideals like liberty, self-government and the right to consent to government, and these ideas classed with the tyranny of British rule. Damn tyranny so in 1777, there was a clash between British troops and colonists in Boston that resulted in the death of several colonists.

11:24 Yeah, and this event heightened tensions and fueled anti-British sentiment, and that was called the Boston Massacre. Yeah, Then in 1773, there was a protest by colonists against a certain act. The act granted the company the right for a ship Nope. What year did the Boston Massacre take place in? 1770. Okay. So, in 1773, there was a protest by colonists, and the act granted the company the right to ship something directly to the colonies without first landing it in England.

12:05 Something. And to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell this in the colonies. That was so obscure. But do you know what I'm talking about? Tea. That would happen in 1773. The tea Boston Tea Party. Yeah, the Boston Tea Party. Stupid Townsend Act. Yeah, so there's a Tea Act. Yeah. And the company had the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies, without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who had the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. So there was a protest by the colonists against the Tea Act, so they dumped 342 crates of tea into the boston harbor man, if you like tea, it would have probably been pretty delicious to go swimming.

12:57 Do you like tea? I like black tea and hearty black tea. Oh yeah, I knew you liked black tea. I don't like tea. Tea is not my thing. I also like iced tea. So I would have just been part of dumping it. Yeah, not because damn you government. Just because this sucks. I hate tea. I don't need this tea, I don't need your tea. Give me water, anyway, sorry. Give me water Anyway, sorry, continue. So those grievances and events led to the rise of a strong movement for independence. There were leaders like Samuel Adams, john Adams and Patrick Henry who advocated for self-government and separation from Britain.

13:39 There was also a group called the Sons of Liberty, which organized protests and boycotts against British goods. Okay. So by 1775, the colonists were no longer willing to passively accept British rule. There were battles in Lexington and Concord in April 1775, and that marked the start of the Revolutionary War. Sure did. Okay, so let's go to the evening of April 18th, 7075. 7075? . We're talking yeah, we're talking nighttime 1775?

14:20 It sounded like you said 7075. The nighttime of April 18th 1775. All right. One, seven, seven, five, so a man named Robert Newman, who was a caretaker of Boston's old North Church, which still stands. I've been there. Have you. Yeah. I'm kind of jealous. My family took a trip to Boston out east I should say out east Boston was a stop on the whole trip when I was 14, so 30 years ago. Do you remember?

15:01 what month of the year. It was in August. So, like I said, said 30 years ago, um, because my mom bought me an early birthday present which was a book. So that was a book and she was the book on uh, it was a thing. I think it was a star wars book actually, um, but I remember she wrote the date in it and it was I don't remember august what, but it was august, yeah, 94. So your. Your memory for dates is astounding and it's funny because I can remember a lot of dumb shit like that. But there's certain things I just well yeah, but, yeah, but yeah.

15:43 I just I don't know, yeah, but yeah, no, I've been there and we went to a whole bunch of uh, good old uh I don't know historic sites in that area. My uh, really good family friend and my dad, one of my dad's best friends Um, they grew up in Wisconsin. They met when they went to college in Whitewater, butwater, but he lived out in Boston for quite a long time before they moved out to California and they had since moved at this point, but they still knew a lot of people, obviously from Boston and they hooked us up with one of their friends to stay at their house. It was like the coolest fucking house ever.

16:23 It was a three-story old-ass house and the middle floor had a library by the stairwell and stuff. It was super cool. You would have loved that. It was great. So I had a lot of fun staying there and they were excellent people. I cannot, for the life of me, remember their names, but I can remember when I saw them. But anyway, sorry. Okay. So Robert Newman, the caretaker of the Boston's Old North Church, used a lantern signal to warn colonists in Charlestown of the British Army's advance. So where he is in Boston and where Charlestlestown is is just over the charles river.

17:06 So it's it's actually fairly close, even though there's a river separating them sure, but I was. I was gonna ask like how, how damn close was it to see that light. yeah, yeah, okay. So leader of the sons of liberty Liberty that organization was Dr Joseph Warren. He assigned Mr Paul Revere to alert the Minutemen of the British Army's advance. So the Minutemen are the militia who could be ready in a minute's notice. So they just called it, minutemen. I wrote burnish are coming Jesus.

17:46 So Revere rode on horseback to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington, which is about 10 miles away. He also alerted up to other 40 Patriot riders along the way okay so he's just probably shouting and the horse is probably like dude. We get it. The british is coming can I stop for some hay? dr joseph warren also assigned william dawes, another member of the Sons of Liberty, to ride from Boston to Lexington on the night of April 18th 1775.

18:33 So William Dawes and Paul Revere rode together. So they both went to Lexington. Yes, at the same exact time they sent two just in case one didn't make it, I don't know. Have a backup plan the same exact time? Yeah, they send two, just in case one didn't make it, I don't know. Have a backup plan. Or maybe it was like you get that side of the road, I'll yell this side of the road. Yeah, because they won't hear you. On the other side of the road, the British are coming. What did he say? Oh, I heard that guy though. Fuck All right Either way. So Dawes' mission, together with Revere, was to warn John Hancock, samuel Adams, that they were actually in danger of arrest. Dawes took the land route. Oh, here's the answer.

19:14 Oh. I just had to keep reading, wow. All right. Dawes took the land route out of Boston through the Boston Neck, leaving just before the British sealed off the town, and Reere took another route. So there you go makes more sense. Yeah, okay yeah, so they took two different routes well, you know, I mean although I've got an image now of both of them like horse on horseback I'll go to this side, you go to that side of the street. that's all I'm picturing, which is unfortunate because it's not true, anyways. So they both arrived at the Hancock Clark House, which is the childhood home of John Hancock and Lexington, at about the same time, shortly after midnight.

19:55 So I looked up where all of these were in relation to each other on maps. These were in relation to each other on maps, but if you were to look up where the John nope, where the Hancock Clark house is now, what do you think? What? businesses, do you think are right around the corner? Either a bank or a gas station. There's a Qdoba, oh geez, a Walgreens and a Starbucks. I was going to say if there's a Qdoba, there's a Starbucks. Yeah, they're all within walking distance of this historic house. Well, just in case the Hancock clerks want to get a refreshment, some food. It's just crazy how Maybe some Band-Aids.

20:37 I feel like the historical places we should just leave alone and go build elsewhere. Yeah, but the problem is a lot of these things aren't like dubs. I mean, those should have been a long time ago, but a lot of historical things aren't like oh, we should have preserved that until like well, after the fact yeah I mean that's like going to the pyramids of egypt and like you think it's in like the middle of the desert, but there's a fucking city right next to it. So I know it's literally right next to it nobody knows because the other side there's nothing well exactly so it's. it's unfortunate. Yes, I agree, um, but you know, unfortunately some people don't have the foresight to, I don't know, protect those that area, and I mean some do like you know, like if you go to the battle of gettysburg, no, there's nothing built on that, there's not a Qdoba on that field.

21:26 So yeah, but anyways. So, after warning Adams and Hancock to leave, revere and Doss proceeded to Concord, in case that that was the British's goal. And Concord is again just nearby, it's like 10 miles from Lexington. Sure. So Revere knew that they had stored munitions there, including cannons, which Dawes had actually helped secure. So along the way the two men met Samuel Prescott, a young local physician, and he was headed home to Concord from Lexington himself and he was headed home to Concord from Lexington himself. So upon hearing about their mission, prescott, who was also a Son of Liberty member, offered to assist Revere and Dawes, pointing out that he was well known in the area and residents would probably be more likely to believe a warning coming from him rather than potential strangers.

22:22 Well, that makes sense, because otherwise they could be like yeah, who are these jamokes riding down the road saying the british are coming? right. Why should we trust them? Yeah, no, I'm so that's sound logic really yeah, as they raced along the road toward concord, the three riders alerted residents in several uh lincoln mass, massachusetts houses by banging on doors. So a nearby town. Their mission was actually cut short near the Concord border in Lincoln as a British patrol was dispatched from Boston the night before to intercept any colonists carrying warning. Oh caught them. Well, shit.

23:02 Did you know that? I actually did not know that. No, yeah, that's crazy. So you know that I actually did not know that. No, yeah, that's crazy. So the three men rode in different directions hoping they would escape. So, dawes, according to the story he told his children spoiler alert he lived, rode into I had no idea. Weird. He rode into the yard of a house shouting that he had lured two officers there, so fearing an ambush. The officer stopped chasing him. Oh. So he's being chased and so he's telling nobody behind this house like hey, I've got two of them following me, so like pretending that there was somebody there to ambush them.

23:46 Well, right. It's kind of brilliant. No, that's genius, because he's not going to follow me because otherwise he's like I might get killed. Yeah, so at that point Dawes' horse actually bucked him off, oh shit, and he had to walk back to Lexington. But later that morning he actually returned to the same yard and found his watch that had fallen from his pocket. Oh, well done. Did he have a pocket watch? No, just a watch and a pocket. I don't know if I like what you did there. I know what you did, but I don't know if I like it.

24:27 So Prescott, according to Brevere's account, took a huge leap with his horse. He steered his horse towards a stone wall, cleared it in a jump and vanished into thick woods. Oh, wow. The encounter, however, resulted in the capture of Revere what a dick. A dick. And he was released after questioning because he was just a simple you know messenger. Yeah, I suppose I mean makes sense. I guess I don't know. I probably would have kept him, you know. Well, yeah, but if he didn't have any? Being a member of the Sons of Liberty who are, like adamantly against British control? Yeah, yeah, but if he didn't have any vital information, what are they going to do with them?

25:09 yeah, so prescott eventually emerged from the woods and the swamps near um heartwell tavern. He alerted the heartwell family also. The tavern and the house are still also around is. Is the tavern still a working tavern or? is it just a historical place? I did not look into that. I did not look into that. We'll have to look into that later, because I'm curious, because we should go have a pint there. Yeah, we should. Oh, that'd be fun, that'd be cool. So he alerted the Hartwell family who lived next to the tavern, and they also spread word to others. Okay, while family who lived next to the tavern, and they also spread word to others. Okay.

25:49 So the alarm quickly reached captain william smith who was the leader of the lincoln minute men. So, hearing the news, captain smith ordered the town bell to be wrong, summoning his entire company to assemble. So give it by giving the minute menemen, advance warning of the British's actions. The ride played a crucial role in the Patriot victory and the subsequent battles at Lexington and Concord. So the ride had been commemorated in a range of cultural depictions. There was like a poem in 1861 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called Paul Revere's Ride, which had shaped the popular memory of the event, but there was no mention of Dawes or Prescott.

26:35 What the hell man. I know. So, like they kind of got lost in history. Always the bridesmaid, always the bridesmaid. So the Battle of Lexington started around 5 am in Concord later that morning. That's really early to start a fight. On April 19th 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord marking the start of the war, dr Joseph Palmer dispatched Israel Bissell on a critical mission. Bissell. Bissell's task was to race through Connecticut spreading the alarm and urging colonists to join forces with the Massachusetts Minutemen.

27:21 Okay. So he gets his own midnight ride. Israel Bissell Just a day later. Yeah. Is he part of the Bissell family that makes like vacuums and stuff? I don't know why don't you look that up Meanwhile. I'll pass. His message was known as the Lexington Alarm and it was addressed to militias across five colonies. This will lift palmer behind in watertown and headed towards worcester, encountering many colonists already on their way to lexington. I mean, word was spreading fast, right yeah, for even back then I can imagine that people are like let's get our guns, boys.

28:02 Yeah. So as he rode, bissell's Crieds was quote to arms, the war has begun, end quote. And it echoed through the countryside, prompting townspeople to ring church bells and fire cannons to alert their neighbors. I don't think I would fire a cannon to alert my neighbor, but we also don't know how closely they were to each other. Well, maybe they were a few feet or a few acres. I don't know how closely they were to each other. Well, maybe they were a few feet or a few acres, I don't know. Yeah, we don't know. But yeah, I'm like hold on, I got to set off my cannon to alert people. Who just has a cannon to alert people? I don't know who just has a cannon. I mean, I know those are different times, I think they should go to the front lines, don't you think, well lines don't you think well the cannon should.

28:50 Yeah, exactly for sure. So bissell's journey was a pretty grueling one. Okay, he averaged 69 miles a day, holy covering a total distance of 345 miles that poor horse well, funny, you should bring that up okay, he was given fresh horses along the way. Oh, so just people like hey, this dude's on a mission. Let's give him a fresh horse. Yes, yes. So kind of like in Gladiator, where he brought a second horse to get back to his family. They just gave him fresh ones when he showed up. Well, there's no way that horse would have made it that much. 69 miles a day is a lot. Yeah, so it actually. Historians suggest that Bissell's first horse collapsed after the initial leg from Watertown to Worcester.

29:38 Okay, so he had to get a second horse, but then he was getting like fresh ones. Throughout his journey, sure, sure Okay. So Bissell's route wasn't limited to just Connecticut, as was originally planned. He actually went on to New York and Philadelphia where the seat of the Continental Congress was. I mean being from where we are. Isn't it funny to like think it's like holy shit, you want all these places, but it's so close over there, because that's just how it developed. I know or is from where, where we're from. I mean, all you, all you saw as a child, was corn just forever. I just saw some.

30:18 You know farms as well, but not as much corn, I guess, but yeah it's just weird to think if I wanted to fly anywhere, I had to drive three hours to get to the airport, exactly so yeah so yeah, just think about. Think about it in that aspect, where yeah everything was so close back then, even though going 69 miles a day, that's a lot in one fucking day so, yeah, so throughout his travels he faced um skepticism from some of the townspeople who feared a false alarm. So, to address this, this little actually presented the original dispatch from joseph palmer. So if you recall, he's the um the leader of the sons of liberty yeah, who sent him on his way right?

31:03 yeah, and so each stop he would show the townspeople this dispatch, and they added their own signing, verifying it before moving on sure, that's kind of cool actually yeah, so news of the conflict spread further as towns printed broadsides and newspaper articles based on the information carried by Bissell. So they're like get to the presses. Oh my god, alert the news. Alert the news, alert the media. Get on social media and spread this. I didn't. Social media back then was a newspaper.

31:46 I heard a cannon. Get to the presses, okay, anyway. I heard a cannon. Either someone's warning us or they're having a party. So in New Haven, connecticut, the dispatch was modified to include an order for Bissell to take the message all the way to Philadelphia. An order for Bissell to take the message all the way to Philadelphia. Similarly, in New York, general Alexander McDougal suggested finding a new rider for the final leg. But according to the Sons of the American Revolution, several historians believe Bissell completed the entire journey himself. So from New York the message continues south through New Jersey before reaching Philadelphia. But they don't know that for sure. They just think that he did.

32:27 Yeah. I mean it'd be kind of a dick move to take it away from him. He already went that far. Let him finish his job, man. Nobody knows who he is. Well, hopefully Al does after this. So this is what happened between Aprilil 20 excuse me, april 19th and april 24th okay so leaders like benedict arnold and israel putnam responded to the call. Arnold gathered soldiers in new haven, including yale students, while putnam assembled the connecticut militia and marched towards boston. Okay news of the battles reached new york city, sparking a riot.

33:10 Colonists seized weapons and supplies, closed the port and joined the militia. By the time word reached philadelphia, a massive mobilization was underway, with thousands marching towards Boston. Crazy. So Bissell eventually returned to Connecticut, while copies of the message even went further south to Maryland, north Carolina and other colonies. Sure. So, like I said, we're just like spread like wildfire. Yeah, so the American colonists won the battles of Lexington and Concord. Sure did motherfuckers. While the British inflicted more casualties approximately 273 British casualties versus 95 colonists.

33:55 Oh, wow. The colonists successfully disputed the British plans to seize weapons and supplies. The British were forced to retreat back to boston, harassed by colonial militia throughout the day. Yeah, like so, as they were retreating, the militia just kept going forward, and forward, and forward and just causing mayhem sure that makes sense so that was the original, like Revere's Midnight Ride of 1775. So now we know that there was Dawes, prescott and then Bissell, like all of them, had their own, you know, midnight Ride. So now we're going to fast forward to 1777.

34:40 Oh snap. The American Revolution is still in effect. Yeah. So this is actually a rumor. So, there's no like legit documentation that this happened, no validity to it. Basically, yes, okay. It was hearsay, essentially. Gotcha. So we're two years into the war and the British seize an attack on Danbury, connecticut, and that is where the armory was located. Gotcha. So, instead of just taking over the armory, the British troops destroyed as many as 5,000 barrels of pork, beef and flour, 5,000 pairs of shoes, 2,000 bushels of grain and 1,600 tents.

35:26 They also got drunk on rum, oh duh. And while drunk, the soldiers set fire to many of the houses in the buildings. Well, that's kind of a dick move, but okay. Well, speaking of that, eventually the more self-respected British troops said that that day was the most horrific display of the British and all of the war. Yeah, like they were embarrassed for the people that for the British that did it. I'm not surprised at that, yeah. So a bunch of dicks themselves apparently like I'm an American now. So on April 26th 1777.

36:06 So almost two years, literally two years. That's crazy. Yeah, we're going to go to the Ludington. So there's Henry and his wife and 12 children. Okay. That's a lot. I mean, I thought, having two was a lot. I couldn't imagine having 12. 12's a lot, I mean I thought having two was a lot, I couldn't imagine having 12. 12. Good lord. So they were all getting ready for bed on April 26. So Henry Ludington was actually a colonel and head of the militia in the area and he also fought in the French and Indian War. Oh. A messenger pounded on their door after dark with word that the British troops were in Danbury.

36:47 So it actually just so happens that the colonel disbanded his troops as it was planting season and they all needed to work on their farms. Oh geez, that's crazy. So the colonel chose to stay home and rally his troops. Colonel chose to stay home and rally his troops, and his daughter, who was 16, the oldest of 12, volunteered to alert her father's men. The oldest of 12 was only 16? Yes, holy shit. Her name is Sybil Ludington.

37:27 Now I have seen her name. Sybil spelled three or four different ways. There's one, sybil, yes, and that's how I wrote it, and that's how most of what I see, but every single article that I read mentioned that it's. It's um, spelled in other ways there it is. Oh yeah, that took a second, you got there because I looked at you oh, I'm sorry so she gets on top of her horse named star, and it was actually pretty windy and it was raining that night, and yet she rode 40 miles to alert other militia. And supposedly that was much more than what Paul Revere did. Fucking Paul Revere rode like 20 miles total.

38:09 He grabbed a branch and, through the woods and tiny towns, banged on all the doors alerting that the British troops were burning Danbury. Okay 400 militia men under the command of their father assembled, they marched toward Danbury, which was 20 miles away from where they were. Oh, so the earliest known record of the 1777 account of Sybil's ride came in 1854. Okay, from Sybil's nephew, charles H Ludington. Okay, and he sought to have his aunt recognized as a hero.

38:52 Sure. But there's literally no diary. There's diaries that she wrote during that time and nothing was ever mentioned about her ride that night. That's weird, yeah, don't you feel like if it was her own diary she would have said I would think I did this I mean yeah, I would think so most people would account recount their day, not just be like well then, I took a shit. I mean, why wouldn't you put that in there? You know it's like okay, anyways. I went to the outhouse. It was glorious, glorious outhouse, bit windy though, anyways.

39:36 So um Ludington, Sybil um, was included in an 1880 book about the New York City area by a local historian named Martha Lamb. Okay, so a brief reference later appeared in the 1907 memoirs. Yep the 1907 memoirs written by Willis Fletcher Johnson about Sybil's father and published privately by his grandchildren. Okay, so again there's. There's just no like legitimate documentation reference yeah okay, so this is all. That's why it's all just hearsay.

40:17 They're like yeah, we're pretty sure this happened, but we can't prove that it happened right, right Kind of thing Okay so. So in Connecticut they actually have a statue of her and they have markers of her, her trail, essentially. Oh, In hopes that it's real, I don't know so. In hopes. The. American Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the treaty of paris on september 3rd 1783. The treaty formally recognized the independence of the united states of america by great britain damn right so yeah.

40:58 So here's a quick little breakdown of the events leading to the treaty. So after initial victories for the colonists, the war became a stalemate. Neither side could achieve a decisive. Words are hard. And let's go again. What kind of. Neither side could achieve a decisive. Decisive. That's the one. How are you fumbling that so badly? I? don't know. Decisive Because I think I want to. I'm a little dyslexic at times where I want to put the V first, so divisive is what I was trying to say Divisive.

41:44 Yeah Something. Don't you think it should be listexic if you're? dyslexic Listexic. Anyways. So neither could achieve a military victory. A decisive victory. That's right. Okay just making sure. France entered the war on the side of the colonists in 1778, providing crucial military and financial aid, and this significantly impacted the balance of power. Yeah, so in 1781, a combined French and American force surrounded a British army under General Cornwallis at Yorktown, virginia. Okay, facing defeat, cornwallis surrendered. Making an virginia. Okay, facing defeat, cornwallis surrender.

42:25 Making an amazing turning point in the war yeah so the surrender at yorktown led to peace negotiations between the british and the americans, and they took place in paris over several years sure so the so the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3rd 1783. Hey, september 3rd, our launch date. I see the tie in there. Hey, holy buffoonery. It was signed on September 3rd 1783. And the treaty recognized the independence of the United States, established boundaries for the new nation and addressed issues like debt and prisoner exchange.

43:09 Oh yeah, nice. So the signing of the Treaty of Paris marked the official end of the American Revolutionary War and the birth of the United States as a sovereign nation. Yep and that is the story of the I guess it's four Midnight Rioters. Holy shit. Not three. So there's Revere Dawes, prescott Bissell and Bissell and Sibyl. Yep Five damn. And people only know about Paul Revere. I only knew about Paul Revere, simple poem. And it only know about Paul Revere. I only knew about Paul Revere, simple poem. It was just a poem. Well, that's what they taught us in school and stuff they didn't really talk about.

43:52 The other ones Just kind of glossed over them completely. Poor people, Shit. We don't even know if Sybil did it. We don't even know if Sybil did it. I know, probably because she was a woman. We don't even know how simple did it, I know, probably because she was a woman. I I would love to like go to that area and walk through all those places the hancock, clark house, the tavern, if it's still, um, like open for visitors and things my guess is it's probably not, but that would be pretty badass if it was. It would be If it was still like a working thing, or at least historically working. Obviously, I'd rather have it like it was in 1775 than it would be today.

44:35 I like older taverns and pubs, though. Yeah, We'll have to go through there and maybe record like hey, we're finally here. Hey, we're on assignment, there you go. On location with Bradley and Kate. We've got the history buffoons, oh Jesus. I hope you talk like that the whole time too, because that won't drive anyone nuts, specifically me. We're going to go through the museum, but first I have to go through starbucks. Let's go for a walk do they have big b here? I love big, I know you do your coffee is just so good big fan of big b I am not affiliated with this podcast thankfully where, where Big B is versus where I work is a good 15, 20 minutes away, so it's not like super convenient.

45:29 It's convenient enough, but not overly convenient, because otherwise you'd probably be walking over there all the fucking time to get another coffee or whatever, and now they're on DoorDash. Oh dear, so you can pay even more for them. No, no, I refuse. Well then, don't door dash it. I haven't Good. I didn't say I was. I'm just saying don't it's available if I'm like laid up somewhere and I need that shot of espresso. Oh, jesus Christ, I am not a coffee person. People, I drink Mountain Dew to get my caffeine typically. Yeah, she likes her coffee. My wife loves coffee. I just dropped my pen and uh and uh, yeah, I just I could never get into coffee.

46:17 The only time I ever drank coffee was when I worked at a gas station. Uh, at the end of high school, right out of high school, it had shitty ass. I mean, this is, you know, late 90s coffee at a gas station, not like what you get these days. Well, I mean, no, that's not why, but the only way I would drink it is I would. They had little styrofoam cups and I'd fill it halfway with sugar and just like a smidge of creamer and then I'd pour coffee in it. It was more like a smidge of creamer and then I'd pour coffee in it. It's more like a sludge than it was like a beverage. It sounds like it. It was, it was gross, but you know, and then I would, uh, yeah, then I just buy my own dues the rest of my shift. Isn't there a website called like buy me a coffee or something?

47:00 I think there is actually. Yeah, that sounds that sounds right. Big B, y'all Big B. Not affiliated with this podcast. No, I'd be great though. I mean I'd be okay with it. I would be so fantastic with that. Yeah, yeah. They have a sweet foam cold brew mocha, and it's just from the very first sip to the very last, even a day later, like it's so good. Yeah, you're weird. You'll like you'll tell me how I got my coffee. It's just in my car. I'm like how long has it been there, I don't know Since yesterday, like, is it still good? I've never said that. I've never said that.

47:40 I've never said that. I believe you have All right. Maybe you said it was in the fridge or something. Yeah, there was one time I left it at work in the fridge and it was great the next day it was so good. So it's funny that you mentioned the buy me a coffee, because in some of my work today on the podcast I saw this and what it is is buy me a coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans. So, yes, it's an actual thing. Does it? Does it translate into coffee, like, or is it just money? I think it's just people, yeah I think people can just donate to your cause or help support you what you're doing I don't know if I'd allow that.

48:22 Why? Because I don't want coffee. I'll buy you a Mountain Dew. I don't know. That's not what that money would go for, is it no, no, we're responsible. Podcasters. Are we, though? This is the first podcast we haven't had a beer on do we do a? Do we do a post story beer I have, I have no beer what's that I do? actually I have a thc beer in the fridge. I'm just scared to drink it. Don't do that not, not that I like, I'm pro-cannabis and et cetera.

49:06 I am too. It's what you're on it. Yeah, and I don't get drug tested at all. But I don't know, I don't like the way my body is affected by it. Sure that makes sense, so I just don't really do it yeah. I don't either. I don't even know if I get drug tested at work, but I'm not going to risk it, yeah. You have a well, your old job. It was random testing, Except it's funny. Right before I left there, they had just said that they were going to stop testing for it, that's right. Because they didn't feel like they should have, um, faulted someone if like, hey, let's go to, I'm just going to use this, cause it's close and I know that it's legal Illinois and, uh, smoke some weed, cause it's legal there but it's not legal here, and so they were going to.

49:58 Actually, I mean, if you are like visibly high at work, they were going to say something, but, um, but yeah, so my, if it's in your bloodstream, from two days ago. Yeah, I mean it stays with you for at least what 30 days is always the rumor I heard, so whatever it was. But uh, yeah, so people are getting a lot more progressive. Even we're in the state we live in, because usually we're really behind the times on stuff like that. yeah, but yeah anyways so all of my um resources are going to be in our show notes, but I wanted to to mention that on our website history buffoons podcastcom yeah there is a feature that if you click on each not each, but if you click on episode there is an option to text us.

50:48 Yeah. And it goes to our email and like we can respond to you. I think that is just so cool and I would love it if people were to chime in. Yeah, so obviously it's not going to be like you're not going to interact live with us because we record these and then put them out, interact live with us because we record these and then put them out. But the cool thing is, um, I have to see, because when I set it up, I'm not sure if it tells you, um, what episode it's being text through or whatever you want. So it'd be kind of cool to just get, like, uh, I guess, interaction on the specific episode, but we want to hear from you. Anyways, we don't care if it's, you know, this episode or two before, two after, whatever it is, um, but yeah, I thought that was kind of neat feature, so I wanted to make sure, uh, I added that and you thought that was pretty awesome.

51:36 So yeah, Um, and there's another feature that's pretty fantastic. Um in, if you're on our website I'm not sure if it's on every page or just the home page, but in the bottom right corner is a little microphone button and you can voice message us yeah, you leave us a voicemail yeah, so that's pretty cool yeah be nice folks, but um. So there are a couple ways that you can get a hold of us, including um our gmail, which is historybehindspodcastgmailcom it does show up in different ways. The voicemail button does show up on every page when you click on it, cool that's. I think that's so cool. I would love to hear from people um.

52:18 Also, if you have any recommendations on documentaries about the american revolution, I would love to know what they are yeah, I can research, of course, but if there are people are like actually I really enjoyed this one, or this one was um not as accurate, etc yeah, no, that would be great, uh, great info to have. My brother oldest brother, uh, I'm sure he still is, but growing up was just a huge, huge fan of, uh, the revolutionary war history. He used to read a lot of shit on it and all that stuff, whatnot, but uh, I liked it, I just never got deep into it, I guess. Uh, so that was kind of fun to learn that there was multiple people other than paul revere rode a horse really far to tell people that the British were coming in some sort of fashion.

53:07 But yeah, so you can text us. Through each episode there's a link that says send us a text. You can actually just send us a I guess it would be considered an email and or you can leave us a voicemail, because that'd be kind of fun to hear some people leave some messages and see what they have to say. Hopefully it's good stuff. And we would love it if you would review us. Yeah, but you know we're also just doing this for fun and I'm learning a lot already. Unfortunately she's forgetting it all, but she's learning a lot in the meantime.

53:48 Well, that's beside the point. I'm just joking. I wasn't going to bring that up, no, but I was. It was a secret. Did you forget to bring it up? I joke, I joke, but no, I've been learning a lot too, so it's been a lot of fun with that joke, I joke, but no, I've been learning a lot too, so it's been a lot of fun with that. Um been having a lot of a lot of fun doing this, learning a lot, um, not just about history, just about doing this too. Uh, so that's been kind of fun. Um, yeah, and obviously more to come with what we're doing. So, yeah, with that being said, I suppose All right, buffoons, that's it for today's episode.

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