Status Updates From The Ride: Paul Revere and t...

"One of Revere's windows featured a depiction of the bleeding ghost of Christopher Seider, a twelve-year old boy who two weeks before the Boston Massacre had been killed by a customs officer-causing great outrage and a massive public funeral and leading in a way to the 'massacre' itself."

"It might be argued [...] that indeed it was here, in a parish in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that the Revolutionary War began. Here at Fort William and Mary, where Royal soldiers fired shots at a Patriot militia for the first time and from whose stores the rebels armed themselves[...] Given all that it engendered, was this the ride of Paul Revers' that launched America's rebellion past the point of no return?"

"In 1774, King George sent Gage back to America to take over as the military governor of Massachusetts Bay. Gage was to continue to lead the Royal Army and to enforce the Coercive Acts (known to outraged rebel Americans as the Intolerable Acts), the measures that led to the Suffolk Resolves. The hope was that Gage, well-liked by both sides, might impose some discipline..."