On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.
You were never taught his name.
June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.
They were wrong.
That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.
There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.
Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.
He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.
Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.
Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.
Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.
Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.
Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.
No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.
A brave woman says 🏴England is a Christian nation and she doesn’t wanna hear anything about the Quran. Guess what? The cops hauled her off like a fucking terrorist.
How the hell can Great Britain be saved from this nightmare?
DON’T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS. CALIFORNIA TAKES THIS LONG TO COUNT VOTES BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO CHEAT
PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT
STOP THE STEAL
How do I know the media is brainwashing people?
Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.
Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.
It is the same person.....Tom Homan....
The only difference? The narrative.
This is the most important image on the internet right now:
Henry Nowak’s hand cuffed.
Pale due to loss of blood.
Henry is dying.
The demonic hands of the British authorities restraining him as they coddle his migrant murderer.
Henry bleeds out as UK cops and migrants insult him
🚨If You Call Mexico the Greatest Country, Why Not Move There?!
"That always shocks me when I see that. People say, 'Mexico, Mexico, Mexico,' and it's like, I understand that's your heritage. I understand that's where you came from. All good. But when you start to fetishize Mexico or the Mexican identity over your American identity, in my opinion, that's a problem, especially when you don't want to go live in Mexico."
There's nothing wrong with honoring your heritage.
But at some point, if America gave you the freedom, opportunity, and life you enjoy today, shouldn't you be proud to call yourself an American?
Watch my full conversation with California Senate Candidate Araceli Martinez at the link below.
El pueblo iraní derribó la estatua del general asesino iraní, Qassem Soleimani, neutralizado por Donald Trump y la destruyó, esto no te lo contarán los odiadores de Estados Unidos. 🔥
Blue Haired liberals in Washington DC are THANKING Trump.
This is Meridian Park, just North of the White House.
Beautiful. Clean. Safe.
Turns out people like living in a city that isn’t a drug-ridden, lawless war zone.
🎥 Louis Riddick on Jacob Rodriguez and Kyle Louis: “At the Senior Bowl, they kicked everybody’s ass, all three days of practice. I was sitting there, my jaw was hitting the floor how good these guys looked… they will be the foundation of that defense.” (@DolphinsTalk) #PhinsUp
Former software engineer at Apple is whistleblowing
She says whenever Apple launches a new phone, they would push an update to older iPhones with malware to slow them down. This pushes people to upgrade
“I used to be a software engineer at Apple, and with every new phone that was released, malware was installed on the older phones to make you have to update, so your phone's not just glitching. It's doing that on purpose. Share before it's deleted”
She’s telling the truth, this was proven in court
The 2017 “Batterygate” scandal, where Apple was caught deliberately slowing down older iPhones through software updates
Apple was caught red handed doing this they even admitted it in court
Apple released iOS updates that intentionally throttled and reduced CPU performance. This caused phones to feel slower, glitchy and laggy
Apple’s stated reason: To prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by aging lithium-ion batteries