THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was written by a famous American poet called Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, after 85 years of actual ‘Paul Revere’s ride’.
Detailed explanation-2: -On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere and gave him the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that British soldiers stationed in Boston were about to march into the countryside northwest of the town.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Paul Revere’s Ride” is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
Detailed explanation-4: -Longfellow wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride” in 1860, in the midst of a national crisis that would break out into war a year later.
Detailed explanation-5: -Paul Revere did not gain immediate fame for his April 1775 “Midnight Ride.” In fact, it wasn’t until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1861 poem, which greatly embellished Revere’s role, that he became the folk hero we think of today.