Post by Buckeye Dale on Jun 4, 2024 10:46:41 GMT -5
Meet Jack Jouett, the Paul Revere of the South
BY: ELIZABETH NIX UPDATED: AUGUST 31, 2018 | ORIGINAL: JUNE 26, 2017
Paul Revere gets all the glory but he wasn’t the only one to make a daring late-night ride to warn that the British were coming. In 1781, during the Revolutionary War (and six years after Revere’s ride), a 26-year-old Virginian, John “Jack” Jouett, made a dangerous, 40-mile dash on horseback to Monticello, the home of Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, to sound the alarm that British forces were on the way to capture the Founding Father. Thanks to Jouett, later dubbed the Paul Revere of the South, Jefferson managed to escape and avoid being taken prisoner.
www.history.com/news/meet-jack-jouett-the-paul-revere-of-the-south
BY: ELIZABETH NIX UPDATED: AUGUST 31, 2018 | ORIGINAL: JUNE 26, 2017
Paul Revere gets all the glory but he wasn’t the only one to make a daring late-night ride to warn that the British were coming. In 1781, during the Revolutionary War (and six years after Revere’s ride), a 26-year-old Virginian, John “Jack” Jouett, made a dangerous, 40-mile dash on horseback to Monticello, the home of Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, to sound the alarm that British forces were on the way to capture the Founding Father. Thanks to Jouett, later dubbed the Paul Revere of the South, Jefferson managed to escape and avoid being taken prisoner.
www.history.com/news/meet-jack-jouett-the-paul-revere-of-the-south
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