THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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F. Three riders carried messages on April 18, 1775
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G. At least four riders carried messages on April 18, 1775
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H. One rider carried messages on April 18, 1775
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J. No riders carried messages on April 18, 1775
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -A more accurate title would have been “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.” The ride went like this, according to The Paul Revere House: Revere was asked by patriot Joseph Warren to take news to Lexington that British troops were on the march.
Detailed explanation-3: -Four men and one woman made late night rides, alerting the early Americans of what dangers lay ahead. They were Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, Israel Bissell, William Dawes, and Sybil Ludington.
Detailed explanation-4: -To warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were across the Charles River in Lexington, Warren dispatched two riders, Paul Revere and William Dawes. Revere took the shorter route “by sea, ” while Dawes went “by land” over the isthmus from Boston to Roxbury, then crossing the Charles River over a bridge in Cambridge.