 It's Monday, June 3, 2024, and this is America Then and Now. This night in 1781, as British forces closed in on Charlottesville, Virginia, intent on capturing the Virginia legislature, along with Governor Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry and others, the British cavalry passed patriot Jack Jouet, who guessed their intent, and immediately mounted a horse and sped through the night to Charlottesville, 40 miles away.