PATRIOTS #10 - LEXINGTON AND CONCORD Mystery Cache
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PATRIOTS #10 - LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
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This is part of an 11 cache series with the theme "The men and events that started the American Revolution". The cache is not at the posted coordinates! You will have to solve the puzzle below in order to obtain the coordinates.
In the course of doing this series, hopefully you will learn something about the founding of this Nation. Make sure you record the information (Letter and number code) inside the cache container or on the log itself. You will need it if you want to find the final to this series!
This series is meant to be educational. The puzzles are made so they will hopefully challenge you and will likely require some research and a little reading. Most of all we hope you have fun doing this series. After all that's what Geocaching is all about, right!
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So let's get started and we hope you will join us on a journey into our nations past.
Let us continue our journey with LEXINGTON/CONCORD ****THE BRITISH ARE COMING! ****
One Saturday midnight in the middle of April 1775, Paul Revere suspected that General Gage was finally going to move against the Patriot leaders. All boats from the men-of-war in the harbor had been hauled to shore and repaired, and the Grenadiers and the light infantry regiments had been taken off their regular duties. Because of the exodus of patriots from Boston and the Provincial Congress meeting in Concord now, Revere found few leaders left in town to inform. Even Isaiah Thomas, the editor of the Massachusetts spy, had packed up his press, his wife and their children and was heading for Watertown. Of the inner circle, only two doctors remained behind, Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren. Dr. Warren’s medical students were pleading with him not to make night calls, because they were sure he would be ambushed. But Warren was fearless, and Samuel Adams trusted him above all his other lieutenants. After his wife had died years earlier, Warren had turned his four children over to their grandmother and thrown himself headlong into the cause. When he heard Tory sympathizers assuring one another that the colonials would always back down once force was applied by England, he said, “These fellows say we won’t fight. By heavens, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood.”
1. How many minute men were killed on Lexington Green?
a. 7 = 39
b. 9 = 43
c. 8 = 42
d. 10 = 41
2. What did Samuel Adams say first after he heard the gunfire at Lexington?
a. What a glorious morning for America. = 7
b. The redcoats are coming! = 3
c. Oh, what a glorious morning is this! = 5
d. The war’s begun. = 9
3. What term is often used to refer to this openning gunfire exchange that occurred on APR 19, 1775?
a. The shot heard around the World. = 3
b. The Battle of Concord. = 4
c. The Battle of Lexington. = 6
d. The shot heard round America. = 7
4. Who ended up warning the minute men in Concord?
a. Paul Revere = 5
b. William Dawes = 3
c. Reverend William Emerson = 9
d. Samuel Prescott = 7
5. British Soldiers carried four and a half foot muskets they called:
a. Brown Bess = 9
b. Long rifles = 7
c. Black Bess = 4
d. Blue Bess = 6
6. Where did the first skirmish occur at Concord and why?
a. The south bridge, because the British started burning houses in the town. = 20
b. The town green, someone fired a shot which causes the British troops to start firing. = 25
c. The north bridge, the minute men saw smoke from the town and thought the British were lighting their houses on fire. = 21
d. Meriam’s corner, the minute men saw smoke from the town and thought the British were lighting their houses on fire.= 26
7. What happened to Paul Revere and William Dawes on the way to Concord?
a. Revere was captured and Dawes was injured when he was thrown from his horse. = 20
b. Both were captured and Dawes was injured when he was thrown from his horse trying to escape. = 18
c. Dawes was captured and Revere was injured when he was thrown from his horse. = 16
d. Both were captured and Revere was injured when he was thrown from his horse trying to escape. = 19
8. How long did Colonel Smith wait in Concord, after the initial battle at Concord, and why?
a. He waited 90 minutes. He thought reinforcements would be there soon and was unaware there had been a series of bungles that delayed Lord Percy and the reinforcements. = 4
b. He waited 60 minutes. He thought reinforcements would be there soon and was unaware there had been a series of bungles that delayed the reinforcements. = 1
c. He waited 2 hours. He thought reinforcements would be there soon and was unaware there had been a series of bungles that delayed Lord Percy and the reinforcements. = 7
d. He waited 2 and a half hours. He had received word that reinforcements would be there soon. = 8
After the fighting that took place in both Lexington and Concord, the word was passed swiftly to all the towns all over the surrounding counties. Men of all ages grabbed their muskets and long rifles to rush to the aid of their fellow countrymen. Men showed up, organized as best they could, and waited along the road back to Lexington knowing that the British troops had to pass along this road as they retreated.
9. Who lead the British reinforcements that met Colonel Smith’s men in Lexington? Who arrived to take over command of the Colonial Militia as Colonel Smith’s men arrived at Lexington?
a. General Gage arrived to take over. Colonel Timothy Pickering. = 1
b. Lord Percy. General Artemus Ward. = 2
c. Lord Percy. Lt Colonel Israel Putnam. = 8
d. Lord Percy. Major General William Heath. = 5
10. What was the causality count on both sides after the British finally reached the safety of Boston?
a. 73 Americans killed and 174 wounded. 49 British killed and 39 wounded. = 9
b. 49 Americans killed and 39 wounded. 73 British killed and 174 wounded. = 6
c. 39 Americans killed and 49 wounded. 73 British killed and 174 wounded. = 2
d. 49 Americans killed and 79 wounded. 153 British killed and 174 wounded. = 0
11. Why were Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington?
a. They chose Lexington as their hideout from General Gage who they knew was charged with arresting them. = .025
b. They had stopped to rest at a friends house and make final preparations while on their way to Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress. = .057
c. They were visiting with friends in Lexington as Boston was a dangerous place for them since the British occupation started. = .066
d. They had just moved their headquarters to Concord so they could continue with the circular letters and direct Son’s of Liberty actions from a safer distance. = .032
e. They had stopped to rest at a friends house and make final preparations while on their way to Philadelphia for the second Continental Congress. = .040
The cache can be found at:
N 36 AA.BCD
W 076 EE.FGH + #11
AA = (#1) + (#2)
B = #3
C = #4
D = #5
EE = (#6) - (#7)
F = #8
G = #9
H = #10
Don't forget to add the value you get for question 11 to the longitude.
NOTE: Once you get the solution you need to make the following adjustments to the Latitude and longitude. This is due to having to move this cache to a new location on 04 JAN 2013.
Add 0.005 to the Latitude
Subtract 0.015 to the Longitude
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Congrats to Booshaka for a very patriotic FTF! Great job!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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9780743299121
9780671675622
9780880800068
9780880800013