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Judge retells Jack Jouett’s ride in Virginia tale
In a Charlottesville setting a judge narrates how Tarleton’s raid on Jefferson nearly toppled Virginia’s leadership. He recalls Mourning the nurse’s mother, the Eagle Tavern, and a 1781 sequence linking Manchester, Portsmouth, Petersburg, and Charlottesville before Tarleton’s force was checked by Jouett.
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Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Revere
Morris
Jack
Tarleton
Charlottesville
Mr. Jefferson
Old Town
Eagle Tavern
Cornwallis
Virginia
Gin
Castle Hill
Arnold
Portsmouth
Henry Clinton
Phillips
Manchester
James River
Richmond
Petersburg
Jefferson
Richard
Henry Lee
Thomas’ Nelson, Jr
Benjamin Harrison
Patrick‘Henry
Lafayette
Baron Teyben
Rivanna
North Anna ‘River
Hanover County
Charlottes