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Why wasn't Paul Revere seen rowing across the bay by sentries on HMS Somerset?

Started by Unbridled Liberty, March 04, 2012, 12:39:17 AM

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Unbridled Liberty

March 04, 2012, 12:39:17 AM
Someone at an Appleseed mentioned something about an lunar anomaly being the reason PR was not spotted by the Somerset's sentries.  I did a little searching and found an interesting article from Sky & Telescope that explains the moon's position relative to the Somerset and Revere's route, and the reason Revere was not spotted.

http://ecommons.txstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=physfacp


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TaosGlock

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March 04, 2012, 12:56:48 AM
Thanks for finding that!
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March 04, 2012, 02:01:42 AM
Good stuff! :)....O.L.
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#3
March 04, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
Nice, thank you!   O0  :bow:
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#4
March 04, 2012, 09:09:23 AM
I sure like finding these details like this. Thank you for posting. I will update my First Strike.
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#5
March 04, 2012, 09:21:27 AM
Thanks UL. I had read this a month or so ago but the documentation was somewhat lacking. This makes a solid case, and clears up a curiosity nicely!
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March 04, 2012, 10:15:58 AM
The Stars had aligned!
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March 04, 2012, 01:17:08 PM
Very good  O0
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#8
March 04, 2012, 01:31:29 PM
Providential! 

The pdf is attached here in case the original link ever expires.

GEmanuel

#9
March 04, 2012, 03:15:28 PM
Thanks FM. Now we won't need to worry about something happening to the link!
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"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." ~ Thomas Paine

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#10
March 04, 2012, 06:49:19 PM
Fascinating find! Thanks for sharing  :)

Niecie

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#11
March 04, 2012, 07:24:45 PM
Pretty neat!  Would have been interesting to be there in 1992 to watch the moon rise just as it had 217 years prior.
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March 06, 2012, 05:06:49 PM Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 12:08:32 AM by Stand
This can be found in Appendix I of Paul Revere's Ride  page 312, top of page.
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March 08, 2012, 04:32:19 PM
Quote from: Stand on March 06, 2012, 05:06:49 PM
This can be found in Appendix I of Paul Revere's Ride  page 312, top of page.

thanks to both you. some great info.
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Unbridled Liberty

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March 08, 2012, 06:59:04 PM
Quote from: Stand on March 06, 2012, 05:06:49 PM
This can be found in Appendix I of Paul Revere's Ride  page 312, top of page.

Thanks Stand.  I never took the time to read the Appendix, but thanks to you, I have discovered all kinds of neat tidbits there.  Just after the moon info you cited above is an interesting section on the tide that night, and how it helped Revere and hindered the British.  Providential indeed!

UL
For Liberty, each Freeman Strives
As its a Gift of God
And for it willing yield their Lives
And Seal it with their Blood

Thrice happy they who thus resign
Into the peacefull Grave
Much better there, in Death Confin'd
Than a Surviving Slave

This Motto may adorn their Tombs,
(Let tyrants come and view)
"We rather seek these silent Rooms
Than live as Slaves to You"

Lemuel Haynes, 1775

Charles McKinley

#15
March 08, 2012, 07:16:35 PM
Grad school ruined me.  I don't like to read anything that isn't extensively documented.  There is all kinds of neat stuff in the Appendices.
Last evening, it occurred to me that when a defender of Liberty is called home, their load lands upon the shoulders of the defenders left behind. Just as the Founders did their duty for Liberty, every subsequent generation must continue their work lest Liberty perish. As there is no way for the remaining adults to take on the work of those that die, we must pass the ideals and duties on to the children. -PHenery

grunt soldier

#16
March 14, 2012, 04:04:21 PM
dang now I got more reading to do.  I also never read the appendix.  guess I'll have to go back through it
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fouber

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July 13, 2012, 05:57:51 PM
Thank you.  Reading book now, will be sure to read till appendix.

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