It is one of the greatest conspiracy theories that surround the American revolutionary war.
The most famous midnight trip in American history occurred 250 years ago when members of Liberty Paul Revere and William Dawes rode Lexington to warn other “patriots” that the British army was on the fly.
(Curious fact: Revere and Dawes did it No Say “the British come, the British come!” They said: “Common customers come, regular customers come!” Because almost all then considered British).
A founding father and patriotic companion named Dr. Joseph Warren gave Revere and Dawes to the plans of the British army, which included arresting Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. In addition, the patriots feared that the British destroy the department of the ammunition supply of the rebels in Concord.
However, the most sensational rumor that goes back to Thansver is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the beautiful American wife of the British general who planned the strategic march in Lexington and Concord was the deep throat of the revolution.
But nobody knows with certainty who leaked that crucial information to Warren – Intel that finally led to the “shot heard around the world” on April 19, 1775. He opened the battles of Lexington and Concord, which is the US resource and US resources and US resources and US resources and US resources and Americans of US resources
Gene. Thomas Gage directed the British army in the duration of Massachusetts war and wrote his famous order that will launch what was known as the concord expedition on April 18, 1775.
It will be “with the maximum expedition and secret”, Gage wrote the army’s plans to hinder the patriot militia assuming his ammunition and supplies in Concord.
But his letter did not remain a secret.
Margaret Kemble Gage was the well -connected American daughter of a British named Peter Kemble, who emigrated to America and became a rich merchant and landowner in what is now Morris County, NJ. His mother, Gertrude Bayard, was an aristocrat born in the United States with ties with the main families in New York, such as Van Cortlands, Lanceys and Van Rensalaers.
Margaret married Thomas Gage in the 1200 acres Mount Kemble plantation of his father in New Jersey when he was 24 years old. Such was the presence that her husband’s officers sometimes shaded her by calling her “the Duchess” behind her.
She sailed home to England in the summer of 1775 after the outbreak of the war and joined her husband a couple of months later. She would survive for 36 years.
It is believed that the suggestion of rumors of his role as a secret source vote of the writings of Reverend William Gordon, a friend of Joseph Warren who had observed some of the events of April 19, 1775.
In the stories of his writing, Gordon suggests that a true “daughter of freedom joined unequally in politics” was the source that warned Warren from the British march to Concord, according to academics from sites such as Boston’s garrison.
“Who could that cryptic phrase be more accurately than to Peter Kemble’s daughter, married to the British commander in Chief?” Read an editorial at the Washington Post 100 years ago, when the nation was about to celebrate its 150 birthday.
Not so fast, they say numerous contemporary historians who argue that the lasting rumor has the smell of a slightly misogynist fairy tale.
“They wanted to create a myth of this Doncella fair that fought for Betsleen’s loyalty to the American side and her husband and finally chose the country over him,” said Alexander Cain, an expert on April 19, 1775, who blogates in Historical and Historical and Habery and Haerdery and Haerdery, Ground, “said The Post.
“But there is no evidence that Margaret was spreading information to Joseph Warren. It is true that there is no evidence that she is either,” Cain added. “But as far as I know, I think it was a dark loyal of Boston who was sitting in the fence and was fighting loyalty to the crown and loyalty to the Patriots. Who was it, we do not know that Margaret was vilified by rest.”
Margaret’s rumor was legitimized, some unjustifiably say, in the 1995 book “Paul Revere’s Ride” by David Hachett Fischer, Professor of History at the University of Brandeis for a long time.
“Warren had an informant,” a person very close to the upper levels of British command in Boston, a person just to be contacted with extreme attention, and only as a last resort, “which causes the details of Gage’s orders, Fischer wrote.
The settlers knew that something was wrong, Fischer wrote, and because Warren was a doctor in exercise, “he would have a fair excuse to call Margaret in his medical capacity and come: the British were increasing.”
But Jll Bell, a scholar who specializes at the beginning of the American revolution and is the author of “The Camino to Concord: how four stolen cannons lit the revolutionary war”, also gives an approval to the Margarita theory.
“I don’t think anyone has leaked it,” said Bell, who also directs the Boston 1775 blog, to the post. He believes that Joseph Warren and others had been obtaining information on the movements of the British troops of a variety of sources and events.
“On the one hand, Gage’s plan was to send troops to Concord, but Warren to go to Lexington. Revere and Dawes get used to Concord on their own.”
In any case, Bell believes that the spy could have a good section a pragmatic knife manufacturer born in British called William Jasper. He was renting a room to a British sergeant who could have involuntarily trusted the army’s plans.
“Unfortunately, that story is much less sexy and about a person we have never heard about,” Bell said. “But I think the Patriots paid the informant.”
Dr. Emily Murphy, curator of the National Historic Site of Salem Maritime, does not have it either.
“In the 18th century Anglo-America, a lady of her social position did not call the knights, and certainly not the gentlemen who had not presented,” he wrote for Boston’s garrison. “If one of the patriots leaders called Mrs. Gage, it would certainly have caused comments.”
