This is one of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding the American Revolutionary War.
The most famous midnight ride in American history On Friday, 250 years ago, the sons of Paul Revere and William Daws rode Lexington to warn fellow “patriots” that British forces were marching.
(Fun fact: Libya and Daws did that do not have “The British are coming, the British are coming!” they said, “The regulars are coming, the regulars are coming!” because most people at the time considered themselves British. )
A father named Dr. Joseph Warren and a fellow patriot have turned his tribute and Dawes over the British Army’s plans, including arresting Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. Furthermore, the Patriots feared that the British would destroy the Concord rebel ammunition supply depot.
But the most sensational rumour that dates back to more than a century is that Margaret KembleGage, the beautiful American wife of the British general who planned a strategic march in Lexington and Concord, was the deep throat of the revolution.
But no one knows who leaked that important Intel to Warren. “A shot of hearing the world” On April 19, 1775, the battle between Lexington and Concord ignited the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States.
General Thomas Gage led the British forces in Massachusetts during the war and wrote the famous order on April 18, 1775, launching what is known as the Concord Expedition.
It must be done “with maximum expedition and secrets,” Gage wrote about his military plan to stymie the Patriot militia by taking over munitions and supplies at Concord.
However, his letter was no secret.
Margaret Kemble Gage was a well-linked American-born daughter of England, Peter Kemble, who emigrated to America and became a wealthy merchant and landowner in Morris County, New Jersey, what is now Morris County. Her mother, Gertrude Bayard, was an American-born aristocrat with ties to major New York families, including Van Cortland, De Lanceys and Van Rensalars.
Margaret married Thomas Gage at his father, 1200 acre Mount Kemble Plantation in New Jersey, at the age of 24. Her presence shading her by her husband’s officers sometimes calling her “Duchess” behind her back.
She sailed to England in the summer of 1775 after the outbreak of war, and a few months later her husband joined her. She will ultimately live him long by 36 years.
The rumors suggesting her role as a secret source are believed to stem from the work of Rev. William Gordon, a friend of Joseph Warren, who observed some of the events of April 19, 1775.
In his written account, Gordon suggests that the true source of information is that “Daughter of Freedom is not yoked in politics.” Boston Garrison.
“Would that inexplicable phrase apply better than the daughter of Peter Kemble, who married the British commander and chief?” Washington Post’s editorial 100 years ago, the country was about to celebrate its 150th birthday.
It’s not that fast, but say it is a number of modern historians who claim that enduring rumors have a slightly misogynistic fairytale whim.
“They wanted to create this fair maiden myth, struggling between the American side and loyalty to their husbands. She ultimately chose the country over him,” said expert Alexander Kane, April 19, 1775. Historic Geek He then wrote books such as “We Stand in Our Place,” Post said.
“But there is no evidence that Margaret is spreading information to Joseph Warren, and there is no evidence that she was not there,” Cain added. “But from what I know, I think it was the obscure Boston loyalists who sat on the fence and suffered from their loyalty to the crown and their loyalty to the patriots.
Rumors about Margaret were justified in a 1995 book, “The Vehicles of Paul Revere,” by longtime Brandes University history professor David Hackett Fisher.
“To Warren, “there are only those who are very close to the higher level of the British Commander in Boston who have provided details of the Gage orders, only to contact us as a last resort,” writes Fisher.
The settlers knew something was ongoing, Fisher wrote, and Warren was a practical doctor, “he would have called on Margaret for medical capabilities and made fair excuses to leave the answer: the British were on a large expedition.”
However, JL Bell, a scholar who specializes in the beginning of the American Revolution and wrote “The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannons Fired the Revolutionary War,” also gives a thumbs up on Margaret’s theory.
“I don’t think anyone actually leaked that,” Bell, who also runs the blog, says. Boston 1775said in the post. He believes that Joseph Warren and others had gathered information about British military action from various sources and events.
“For one thing, Gage’s plan was to send troops to Concord, but Warren told them to go to Lexington.
If anything, Bell believes that the spy may have been a practical British-born knife maker named William Jasper. He had rented a room from a British sergeant who might have unconsciously trusted him in the Army’s plans.
“Unfortunately, the story is not about sexy, it’s about people who have never heard of it,” Bell said. “But I think Jasper, the knife maker, was paid as an informant by the Patriots.”
Dr. Emily Murphy, curator of Salem Maritime National Historic Site, also has none.
“In the 18th century, Anglo-America did not call gentlemen for women in her social status, and certainly did not seek gentlemen she was not featured,” she wrote for the Boston Garrison. “If one of the Patriot leaders had been called by Mrs. Gage, that would have definitely sparked a comment.”
