Joseph Warren

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Joseph Warren.

Wake up.

Hey, hey, hey.

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Joseph Warren.

Wake up.

Hey, hey, hey.

Then they had grievance 18, which was for protecting by military force our seas from the trade, which he has attempted to destroy.

and grievance 24 he has plundered our seas ravaged our coast burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people so those were um three of the 27 items that were written into the declaration and and how does it all like get there and basically again just like we've kind of shown divine providence james otis jr obviously was written for such a time as that and needed to bring that because he really lit a flame then following with John Adams, Sam Adams, probably Joseph Warren and probably Paul Revere because they were all from that Massachusetts initial of founding fathers.

So he was born February 5th, this is James Otis Jr., in 1725 in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, an area known as the Great Marshes.

Now, we talked about Barnstable before, too, when we were talking about Fort Ticonderoga and the Green Mountain Boys.

Exactly.

So that's why people like Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren, and other Patriot leaders encouraged their fellow Sons of Liberty to take Preston's case.

They were sure that no jury made up of Bostonians would ever acquit the murderers.

Ope.

Uh, like resolutions, they used them throughout the American Revolution.

Madison was very familiar with this, whether it's all the way back to the Stamp Act, Congress, or Patrick Henry's resolutions against the Stamp Act, or Joseph Warren's Suffolk Resolves, uh, in 1774, and the like.

All throughout the American Revolution, resolutions were an important piece of the strategy to rally people to the cause, give them instruction, ideas on what they should be doing, organizing, and the like.

Or it could be state laws banning participation in federalis- federal enforcement, really anything and everything to create a massive logistical nightmare for federal enforcement.

So when Paul Revere makes his famous midnight ride, he's riding to Lexington and Concord to warn the British are coming.

Well, that's mostly true, not totally, because Dr. Joseph Warren told them before he left that you also— don't just tell Lexington and Concord the British are coming because they're coming to take all the guns and gunpowder away.

Right.

It's kind of a big deal.

You can't defend yourself if all your guns and gunpowder are gone.

He says, but you also need to tell John Hancock and Sam Adams to get out of town because the British have an order out to kill them, to seize their bodies.

We actually can document this really, really well, not just from Joseph Warren's own account, but because on April 23rd, 1775, which is only four days later, April 19th is when Paul Revere does the ride and you have the shot around the world that next morning.

April 23rd, there is a British officer who said that their business was to seize the bodies of Hancock and Adams as well as all the military supplies of Lexington and Concord.

And one of the things that's so beautiful to me is that a lot of these folks, the reason you don't know about them is because they cared more about the cause of liberty genuinely than about their reputations.

and that's that's why we don't know about another one dr joseph warren he was the leader of the movement he's killed right at the beginning at bunker hill he's barely 34 years old they looked at him like this is before washington comes on the scene a month later he was the leader and dr joseph warren is is killed at uh at bunker hill so there's so many of these truly amazing figures.

And part of the reason I wrote the bookmark is that I feel like we have a duty to know their names and know their stories.

We have benefited, whether you know it or not, you have benefited wildly from the sacrifices that these heroes made.