USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -"Paul Revere’s Ride” was published in the January 1861, issue of The Atlantic magazine on December 20, 1860, just as South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States. The poem was meant to appeal to Northerners’ sense of urgency and, as a call for action, noted that history favors the courageous.

Detailed explanation-2: -Paul Revere’s Ride, poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1861 and later collected in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863).

Detailed explanation-3: -The ride occurred on the night of April 18, 1775, immediately before the first engagements of the American Revolutionary War. In the preceding weeks, British Army activity indicated a planned crackdown on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, then based in Concord.

Detailed explanation-4: -Produced just three weeks after the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere’s historic engraving “The Bloody Massacre in King-Street” was probably the most effective piece of war propaganda in American history.