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.
I hate, hate, hate being forced to watch a video to learn something when I could read at 10x the speed. Videos are for cattle.
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Stefon Diggs was charged with felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault and battery in December 2025.
He allegedly smacked his personal chef across the face and then tried to choke her using the crook of his elbow around her neck.
At a press conference, Mike Vrabel stressed, "These are allegations... I don't think we have to jump to any sort of conclusions right now. Let the process take its toll."
In another incident, Christopher Blake Griffith claims that Stefan Diggs drugged and sexually assaulted him at Diggs' Maryland home in May 2023.
A week after that incident, Diggs' brother Darez and two other men confronted Griffith near his residence in Los Angeles, pulled him out of an elevator, kicked him in the face, ripped jewelry off his neck, and took his telephone.
Darez Diggs pleaded no contest to felony assault charges in connection with that incident, which Griffith claims Stefon Diggs coordinated.
If only Mike Vrabel took a strong stand against Stefon Diggs like he's now taking a stand against TreVeyon Henderson's religious posts.
“Hey man, what’s on your mind?”
Me: “Oh… nothing.” (Reminiscing on when oil went negative 5 years ago and I did nothing so I have to work for the rest of my life)
this is a never give up effort play you show to your kids
what a play by Alijah Clark
from blocked flat on his back to forcing a fumble 50 yards downfield 🔥🔥
One advantage of having many distinct sovereign nations instead of a single world government is that they can try different policies and we can see which work best.
Love this…and strongly believe there is real edge in this approach.
However, in order to execute- you need legit evaluators- and a repeatable sound process underlying it all. @JimNagy_Sooners
The Pacers completely flipped their identity in Game 6—
And it broke OKC’s offense.
Held them scoreless for nearly 7 minutes and to their lowest 3-quarter output all year.
Here’s how Indiana changed everything defensively 🧵
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Live withing your cash flows.