The midnight ride of… Who?
Hi kiddies,
Momma Borden here with ya. How is everyone’s Saturday?
Mine is lovely, thank you for asking.
By now, everyone on the Internet is talking about Sarah Palin and her stupid take on American history.
Now, kids: you all know how much I love to get my make fun of Sarah Palin on. Obviously she is stupid as shit. What the hell was she even trying to say?
But kids, there’s something we gotta talk about. Now, you all know that I don’t like to lecture people.
(Actually you know that’s a lie: I looooove to get my lecture on.)
But, the fact is babies, most of America is wrong when it comes to Paul Revere. That bitch is famous—but there wasn’t a midnight ride of Paul Revere. At least, he never finished it, because the British captured his silver-making ass.
Samuel Prescott was, in fact, the one who said “the British are coming, the British are coming.”
Isn’t it funny how history pins things on people that they didn’t actually do?
Midnight rides.
Quotes.
Murders…
But I thought it might be fun to learn a little bit about Samuel Prescott.
Samuel Prescott was a doctor born in 1751 Concord Massachusetts. On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Prescott was returning home to Concord when he ran into Paul Revere and William Dawes–who are on their way to warn everyone that the British were coming!
As they rode, four British horsemen caught them—and took Paul Revere into custody—Samuel Prescott and William Dawes escaped. (Daws and Prescott separated will, and Daws got waylaid and by the time he was free, Prescott already alerted his neighbors.) By the time Prescott made the warning, there are countless farmers and others out there ringing bells, firing cannon, and everyone knew what was about to happen.
And all of this by the way happened in Concord—not Boston.
Now isn’t that just fascinating? Don’t you just want to pee over the place?
(And isn’t it interesting how the tea party likes to constantly refer to the goals, dreams, and actions of the founding fathers–making a fetish out of them, practically–without actually knowing what most of them did. Weird.)
But Momma Borden knows, babies. And she is here to tell you all about it.
Werq!
Talk soon kiddies!