and the charming nancy has a ton of gun powder and muskets and stuff. everything the americans needed -- with one transport ship they got it all. they didn't get it all but they got a lot of it. any other questions? go for it. >> i heard there were a whole bunch of people warning the americans, not just paul revere. is that true or not? derek: paul revere wasn't really famous until longfellow wrote the poem and the reason longfellow wrote the poem is because he was trying to arouse patriotism ahead of the civil war and he did a good job because we all know who paul revere is. but paul revere, actually, he doesn't ride very far before he's captured by the british. longfellow failed to mention that, i guess. israel bissile -- i forget how

far but -- so paul revere and william dawes and another rider from concord, they meet up on the road and this rider goes to concord, tells his brother and then the network just spreads. and it's -- there's hundreds of riders by the end. it's just like gossip or anything, it just spreads. and it even reaches a little camp, a hunting camp in central kentucky, and they decide to name the camp after the first shot at lexington and that is lexington, kentucky. it takes weeks to get there but it only takes days to get down to new york and i don't remember the exact time. it might be within a day or two. but all the way down to georgia, within a couple of weeks, everyone pretty much knows about the first shot. so paul revere, he helped get started but william dawes kind of goes home after the british capture paul revere but the

network continues from concord on. so it's really the people of concord -- [indiscernible] derek: there's actually a poem about william dawes that makes fun of the fact that longfellow only wrote about revere and nobody cares about dawes. >> what would you rhyme with dawes? derek: i can't remember the poem but they figured out a way to do it. >> revere did quite a bit for sam adams. derek: he's a courier and he's got many rides. the famous midnight ride is just one of them. there's also several false alarm rides he did before april 18 which is why warren sent dawes as a precaution and waited until he saw firsthand that the british were mustering the boston common before sending

revere because he didn't want to send another false alarm and it was because of the previous false alarm that revere set up the plan that if he got trapped in the town of boston, that the lanterns, one if by land, two if by sea, because he was concerned that after that there might be british soldiers roaming and he wouldn't be able to get around them. any other questions? all right. [applause] derek: thank you for coming out. >> thank you for coming tonight. books will be on sale in the back and derek will be signing copies. i hope to see you next month for the evening lecture. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] this evening at 6:00 eastern at

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200,000 pages and collected material stories about blacks. far from in christ by economic transformation, the african-americans saw the changes and saw the opportunity and grasped it. entered with enthusiasm into the marketplace but have not always thrived but have certainly tried . very occasionally they succeed. beyond expectation. my main example of an african-american off for newer -- entrepreneur is jeremiah hamilton about him i have published prince of darkness, the untold story. he is mentioned in print four times since 1900 and three of the four missed -- mentions are misleading or inaccurate,

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