#1464 Jouett's Ride
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🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We spend this week answering listener questions, including one asking us to discuss Jack Jouett. On June 3, 1781, Jouett made a 40-mile "midnight ride" on horseback to Charlottesville, Virginia and gave advance warning to Thomas Jefferson and Virginia legislators that the British were coming. Jouett's extraordinary ride that night enabled them to escape to safety.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners. |
| 0:02.9 | And thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:05.3 | And thank you for supporting the show. |
| 0:07.5 | If you'd like to support the show or ask Clay a question |
| 0:10.6 | or ask Jefferson a question, go to Jeffersonour.com. |
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| 0:19.6 | and they will tell you how. |
| 0:21.4 | And you can also find out about all of Clay's upcoming |
| 0:24.9 | online courses, his cultural tours and his books. |
| 0:29.9 | This week, we spent the entire program answering listener mail. |
| 0:35.6 | We're a bit behind, it's a very fun conversation this week. |
| 0:38.9 | It was, and we had these lists of books. |
| 0:40.7 | And I was saying that I have in front of me the 1,001 books |
| 0:44.1 | you should read before you die. |
| 0:45.6 | And I've read about four of them. |
| 0:48.2 | Evelyn was decline in fall is number 680. |
| 0:53.2 | Herman has his step in wolf is number 684. |
| 0:56.2 | The great Gatsby by Eskot Fitzgerald is number 699. |
| 0:59.9 | So anyway, these Jefferson love nothing more than supplying |
| 1:02.9 | book lists to young men. |
| 1:05.3 | And there are a bunch of them extant. |
| 1:06.9 | And so we got a letter from a man who said that his grandfather |
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