Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
It's possible, but you don't get convicted of disobedience and cowardice out of nowhere. Yes, the Reveres had real money as silversmiths, and no doubt plenty of pull, but I've read a good bit about the Penobscot Expedition, and my semi-educated opinion is that Revere should have been hung rather than dismissed from service. Using his personal barge to rescue his luggage rather than soldiers was a classy move, as was his refusal do deploy artillery as ordered. Disgraceful.

In the end the whole fiasco was hung on Commodore Saltonstall, but only because there was so much blame to go around. Better to put it all on one hateful man than admit the entire chain of command was incompetent.
Fair enough. Consider my respect for Revere destroyed.

CR