THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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It would someday make him famous and a hero.
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He was just a normal guy that tried to do well by his fellow Patriots.
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He cheated his own people and lied to them that the British were coming!
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He got captured by British soldiers and passed away.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the first stanza of ‘Paul Revere’s Ride, ’ the speaker begins by gathering the listeners around him. The landlord, who is telling the story of Paul Revere, is directing it towards his children. He asked them to listen closely to the story of the “midnight ride of Paul Revere“.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is narrated from the perspective of an innkeeper, recounting Revere’s midnight ride in 1775 warning colonists of the approaching British soldiers.
Detailed explanation-3: -What does this stanza reveal about Paul Revere’s friend? He is always on the alert for any enemy sounds and movement. What is most likely the reason the poet includes references to “the dead”? He uses that phrase as a constant reminder to the colonists of the possible fate that awaits them.
Detailed explanation-4: -By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.