“Some sixty years from this time, yer people will be taken from their lands, from the bones of their ancestors, and removed to a new place, far from here. Many will die on this journey, so that the path they tread will be called… the trail where they wept.”
Did Jamie change anything? With the knowledge does Chief Bird pass the information down making his tribe the 800 who were not removed during the Trail of Tears?
Major MacDonald arrives with the guns for the Cherokee and news of the Boston Tea Party. It is beginning.
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. In response, the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history. Since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.
Despite Jamie’s best efforts to forestall a battle, Tryon gets his skirmish and Brianna realizes it is the Battle of Alamance which many believe sparked the American Revolution.
The Battle of Alamance took place on May 16, 1771 and was the final battle of the Regulator Movement. It is considered to be the opening battle of the American Revolution.
Jamie’s been walking a tight rope trying to find the right balance of loyalty to the crown and what he knows about history. Murtagh wanting to fight doesn’t help but Jamie goes along trying to influence and assist when he can. However, Knox’s inquiry into Ardsmuir forces Jamie’s hand.
After Jamie is discovered to be a Rebel by Knox, Jamie strangles him to protect Murtagh and the others. Jamie hides the evidence by burning the Ardsmuir prison roll and starting a fire which destroys all the evidence as to his actions.
After encountering Geillis and realizing she is the one who kidnapped Young Ian, Claire and Jamie set out to stop Geillis from traveling to the future through the stones in the cave locals call Abandawe.
Jamie realizes one of his pictures of Brianna is missing and Claire believes Geillis is going after Brianna because of the Brahan Seer’s Prophecy. Before Geillis can go back in time by using Young Ian as a human sacrifice, Claire kills her with an axe to prevent her from going after Brianna.
Claire realizes these are the bones Joe was studying and the warning Margaret gave her.
Joe Abernathy is looking over some bones for a friend and gets Claire involved in the “investigation.” Claire touches the bones and says they are a “150 year murder victim.” Joe tells her she’s about 50 years off meaning the bones are 200 years old. These bones were of a white woman found in a cave in Jamaica.
This is a lot of information about bones for them not to mean something.
Brianna’s professor tells her history class that Paul Revere did not complete his ride because he was captured by the Redcoats and a fellow rider named Prescott completed their mission to warn of the British arrival. However, he did complete part of his ride.
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was instructed by the Sons of Liberty to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock about the British troops movements. He accomplished this mission. It was on the way to Concord to warn patriots there; he and his compatriots, were stopped at by the very British soldiers they were warning Adams and Hancock about. Revere was captured and questioned. The British brought him back to Lexington but left him alone when they heard the gunshots from the Battle of Lexington Green. Revere found John Hancock and his family and helped them escape Lexington with a trunk full of incriminating papers.