Post riders
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Post riders or postriders describes a horse and rider postal delivery system that existed at various times and various places throughout history. The term is usually reserved for instances where a net
Post rider shown on postage stamp of Saarland
Cabbies in their brightly coloured outfit, in Bucharest, around 1868. The cabbies foul language, curt features and fiery temper, have become a motif in Romanian proverbs.
Isaac Bissell
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Isaac Bissell was a patriot post rider who delivered mail between Boston and Hartford, Connecticut. On April 19, 1775, the British made an attack on Lexington and Concord, igniting the American Revolu
Boston Post Road milemarker at Springfield, Massachusetts
Elias Nason and George J. Varney, Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, A Gazetter of the state of Massachusetts, 1890
J. Godfrey, after a painting by Michael Angelo Wageman, British evacuation of Boston, March 17, 1776, at the end of the Siege of Boston, engraving, ca. 1861