PAUL REVERE'S FIRST STOP: Isaac Hall House, Medford MA — American Revolutionary War, 1775-2025 — 250 скачать в хорошем качестве

PAUL REVERE'S FIRST STOP: Isaac Hall House, Medford MA — American Revolutionary War, 1775-2025 — 250

The American Revolutionary War Semiquincentennial 1775-2025 — 250 years Excerpt: Captain Isaac Hall House Paul Revere's first stop on his famous Midnight Ride April 18-19, 1775 A Zero-Budget Community Access Channel Production In Association with Arlington Community Media, Inc. Featured Reenactors: Robert Hyldburg Laura Duggan Stephen Duggan Shot and edited by Michael McVey Made with lighting equipment from Arlington Community Media, Inc. This film is narrated by an automated voice. Please note some filmed elements of this video are anachronistic or inaccurate. Copyright ©2025 by Michael McVey. All rights reserved. ----- Medford, Massachusetts. This unassuming three‑story building at 43 High Street is the home of Captain Isaac Hall. It is April 18, 1775, and this is the first stop on Paul Revere’s midnight ride to warn colonial militias of the approaching British forces. After rowing across the Charles River and riding through Charlestown, Revere slips past British patrols, proceeds through present‑day Somerville into Medford, warning houses as he passes. Revere awakes Captain Isaac Hall, commander of the Medford Minutemen, and his wife, Abigail Cutter. “The Regulars are out,” Revere reports. He informs Captain Hall that British Regulars are marching from Boston with orders to seize military stores at Concord and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. Captain Hall immediately sends an express rider to Malden and calls on his company of 59 Minutemen to march to Lexington. Their alarm plugs into a sophisticated “alarm and muster” network—using riders, bells, drums, bonfires, and trumpets—that ripples through dozens of neighboring towns before dawn and mobilizes thousands of militia across eastern Massachusetts. On the morning of April 19, Hall’s company joins fellow Minutemen at Lexington and then pursues the retreating Redcoats, engaging them in the fierce running battle at Menotomy—today’s Arlington, Massachusetts—where colonial forces ambush rearguard units along the Battle Road, inflicting heavy casualties before the British reach Boston.