Paul Revere’s Ride
Revere remained active in the Revolutionary War, building Boston’s first gunpowder mill and joining a Massachusetts infantry, but his remaining war record was lackluster, and he was largely unknown in his lifetime.
He later became an American folk hero about 100 years later because of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s stirring retelling of his act of patriotism in “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
It begins with the now-famous lines, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” and depicts a dangerous, midnight ride as Revere warns the colonists about the British attack. The poem recounts his lantern signal system in the lines “one if by land, two if by sea.”
The riveting poem made him an American hero, and while it contains historical inaccuracies, such as claiming Revere rode alone, the poem highlights the risks taken by this patriot at the start of the American Revolution.
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