On this day, 250 years ago, a dying patriot rode all night through a storm so America could be born. Caesar Rodney, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Delaware, was tending to protests by British loyalists on the night of July 1st when a storm brewed to the north. Suffering from asthma and a facial cancer tumor that would lead to his death 8 years later, a letter arrived stating that Delaware’s vote was tied, 1 vote in favor of independence, 1 against it. Determined not to let this chance slip, Rodney immortalized himself by mounting a horse and riding to Philadelphia as lightning swirled around him. READ more inspiring details about this Founding Father... (1776)
