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​THIS WEEK'S STORY FROM OUR FLAG:
... is about "the midnight ride of Paul Revere," as well as, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott ...

[ painting by Charles Bush at NY Public Library ]

That's right fellow students, on April 18th, in 1775, Paul Revere was not the only one to make the famous midnight ride to warn colonials that the Redcoats are coming.  William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott helped Paul Revere by riding and delivering the message through other parts of the Boston area.  Their mission was to make sure that Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were hiding in a house in Lexington, were not arrested by the British army.  The term, the Redcoats, referred to the fancy red uniforms of the British army.  Revere, Dawes, and Prescott also alerted patriots in nearby Concord that the British army may march in to take their military stockpiles of gunpowder and cannons.  As it turned out, the midnight ride excited and prepared colonials for the first battles of the Revolutionary War - the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th of 1775.

[ Midnight Ride map by Courtney Skinner - approved for educational use ]

​Today's Story from Our Flag
Patriots' Day

Today, is a state holiday celebrated in 5 states - Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and North Dakota known as Patriots' Day.  It is a celebration of the first battles of the American Revolutionary War against the Kingdom of Great Britain.  The history books focus on the first two battles that day, known as the Battles of Lexington and Concord. But, on April 19, 1775, there were actually fights between the colonial "Minutemen" and British troops in 5 towns - Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington (then called Menotomy), and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  After the Battle of Concord, where the British infantry, also known as "Redcoats," were outnumbered and had many killed, they began to retreat back through Lincoln, Arlington, and Cambridge to get to their British ships in Boston.  Overall, that day, 73 British troops were killed and 174 wounded versus 49 colonial militia troops (Minutemen) killed and 39 wounded.

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[ Entrance to Hightlands Ranch Veterans Monument  = pic by S. Sweeney (Chief Flag Steward) ]

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