History Challenge 04/19/09
April 20th, 2009 | 
Author: This week’s prize is the Book “Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them“
On April 18th, 1775, British General Thomas Gage secretly planned a raid to capture the patriots’ munitions at Concord, Massachusetts and to arrest two political firebrands and rhetoricians, who were reported in the Lexington area. Providentially, Dr. Joseph Warren heard of the general’s plans and sent two riders (Paul Revere and William Dawes) through the countryside that night to sound the alarm. Calling “To Arms! To Arms!” the riders daring mission successfully alerted the patriots at Lexington and Concord. The next morning the Battle of Lexington took place and the ”shot heard round the world” rang out. News crackled like electricity throughout the American colonies, sparking patriotic fervor unseen up to that time. Name the two Patriots (“Political firebrands”) that General Gage was seeking to arrest.
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Answer: John Hancock and Samuel Adams
Winner: Marko from Birmingham, AL
The resource for this weeks challenge came from the following websites and books:
Under God by Toby Mac
A Patriot’s History of the United States
The One Year Book of Christian History
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4934