THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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“In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen and hear.”
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“Hardly a man is not alive, Who remembers that famous day and year.”
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“Where swinging wide at her moorings lay, The Somerset, British man-of-war, “
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“So through the night Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The purpose of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, as you may recall from your high school history class, was to race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops-700 of them-were marching to Concord to arrest them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paul Revere He’s a symbol of the past, of American courage, of the danger and the fascination of the Revolutionary War. Longfellow almost makes him into an early American action hero.
Detailed explanation-3: -For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Detailed explanation-4: -"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.