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Episode: Paul Revere Part 2: After Being Caught on his Midnight Ride the Major said, “If He Tries to Escape, Blow His Brains Out!”
Description: In Part 2 of the 1802 phone conversation with Paul Revere, I had to know the answers to these questions:
After being caught on The Midnight Ride while attempting to inform the colonist to unite and prepare to fight, why did the British put a gun to his head, and then … let him go?
Why did his revolutionary brothers chuck him to the side when leaving to fight the war and create our new nation?
And why does he hate Thomas Jefferson so much?
Paul Revere was a great man who was willing to...