USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of British invasion before the Battles of Lexington and Concord .

Detailed explanation-2: -Benjamin Franklin, a newspaper publisher and Enlightenment scientist, became a Patriot. He had secured a royal post for his son William Franklin as governor of New Jersey, and William chose to be a Loyalist. The two never spoke again. Enslaved Africans and African Americans usually chose to support the British cause.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the British seized a supply of the colony’s gunpowder, Revere organized a system to detect and warn others in advance of British troop movements. He rode to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifty miles north of Boston, to warn the locals there of an impending seizure.

Detailed explanation-4: -Still others thought that British rule would be better than patriot rule. Since the loyalists lost the war, there aren’t as many famous loyalists as there are patriots.

Detailed explanation-5: -Paul Revere was a colonial Boston silversmith, industrialist, propagandist and patriot immortalized in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem describing Revere’s midnight ride to warn the colonists about a British attack.