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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere on Tripline. Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by British troops in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; Dawes also escaped, though soon after he fell off his horse and did not complete the ride. Revere was detained and questioned and then escorted at gunpoint by three British officers back toward Lexington. As morning broke and they neared Lexington Meeting-house, shots were heard. The British officers became alarmed, confiscated Revere's horse, and rode toward the Meeting-house. Revere was horseless and walked through a cemetery and pastures until he came to Rev.

Clarke's house where Hancock and Adams were staying. As the battle on Lexington Green continued, Revere helped John Hancock and his family escape from Lexington with their possessions, including a trunk of Hancock's papers. The Paul Revere House. The Paul Revere House. Paul Revere Heritage Project. This letter is the transcript of the original manuscript held in the Manuscript Collection of Massachusetts Historical Society. You can view a sample page written by Revere himself here. It is the second and the more complete of the two existing descriptions of the Midnight Ride written by Revere. Note that the letter to Belknap is dated 1798, which is 23 years after the event has occurred.

The first account was PR's deposition to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Dear Sir, Having a little leisure, I wish to fullfill my promise, of giving you some facts, and Anecdotes, prior to the Battle of Lexington, which I do not remember to have seen in any history of the American Revolution. In the year 1773 I was imployed by the Select men of the Town of Boston to carry the Account of the Destruction of the Tea to New-York; and afterwards, 1774, to Carry their dispatches to New-York and Philadelphia for Calling a Congress; and afterwards to Congress, several times. As I have mentioned Dr. American Experience | Patriots Day | Primary Sources. Perhaps the most famous memorial to the events surrounding the Battle of Lexington and Concord is poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1860 poem, "Paul Revere's Ride.

" Generations of schoolchildren have learned it by rote. Some have joked that the other midnight rider, William Dawes, didn't get his poetical due because his name was harder to rhyme. And plenty of people realize that Longfellow's evocative words don't tell the full story. Historian David Hackett Fischer's 1995 book, Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford Press), examines the night's events with a careful eye, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the question of what really happened.

Paul Revere's Ride Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770. Revere, Paul - Primary Sources: People - The American Revolution - LibGuides at Christopher Newport University. Paul Revere, Messenger of the Revolution. Paul Revere is remembered for his historic Midnight Ride warning colonists of the impending British Army attack.

He also had an illustrious career as an engraver, silversmith, watchmaker and soldier. Revere is noted for his engraving of The Boston Massacre, portraying the victims shot and killed by the British Military in an altercation on King Street on March 5 of 1770. Revere's reproduction of his print of the massacre helped spur the colonies to break their relationship with Great Britain. Revere's reputation as an engraver on copper was wide-spread. As a peripheral character of the Revolution, Paul Revere represents the countless acts of those who advanced the cause of freedom. Paul Revere House. Paul Revere Heritage Project. Paul Revere -John Singleton Copley, American, 1738–1815. Paul Revere's House, Paul Revere's Ride, Paul Reveres House | TheFreedomTrail.org.

Paul Revere's house, a wooden structure, dating back to 1680, is downtown Boston’s oldest building still in existence. Paul Revere purchased it in 1770 when he was 35 years old. He paid 53 pounds, 6 shillings, and 8 pence with a mortgage of 160 pounds. Revere was living at this house the night he set forth on April 18, 1775 to make his momentous ride to Lexington that would be immortalized by Longfellow’s famous poem Paul Revere’s Ride. At any given time during his residence, Revere would have shared this house with his mother and between five and nine of his children (he had 16 in all) and one of his wives. WHAT’S IN A NAME? PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION The Paul Revere House, restored, owned and operated by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, is open to the public year round for self-guided tours.

Freedom Trail Foundation tours that feature this site: Walk Into History Tour & North End. Paul Revere. Paul Revere Born: 1-Jan-1735Birthplace: Boston, MADied: 10-May-1818Location of death: Boston, MACause of death: unspecifiedRemains: Buried, Granary Burial Ground, Boston, MA Gender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: Military, Artist Nationality: United StatesExecutive summary: One if by land, two if by sea... American engraver and patriot, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 1st of January 1735. He had a meager schooling, and in his father's shop learned the trade of a gold- and silversmith. In 1756 he was second lieutenant of artillery in the expedition against Crown Point, and for several months was stationed at Fort Edward, in New York. He became a proficient copper engraver, and engraved several anti-British caricatures in the years before the War of Independence.

After the war he engaged in the manufacture of gold and silver ware, and became a pioneer in the production in America of copper plating and copper spikes for ships. Paul Revere's Ride. Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.

" Then he said "Good-night! " and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. You know the rest. Paul Revere — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. Although most familiar as the hard-riding hero of Longfellow’s poem, Paul Revere’s claims to historical significance rest even more on his talent as a craftsman and on his industrial perspicacity. The son of a Huguenot silversmith, Apollos Rivoire, and Deborah Hitchbourn, Revere received a rudimentary “writing-school” education before turning to his father’s trade.

Upon the latter’s death, Paul at nineteen assumed artistic responsibility for the family’s shop. Over the next twenty years, he became one of the preeminent American goldsmiths–a term that encompassed every phase of the eighteenth-century precious-metals craftsman’s art. Besides silver bowls, utensils, pots, and flatware (many of which are museum pieces today), Revere and his apprentices and journeymen turned out a variety of engravings: pictures, cartoons, calling cards, bookplates, tradesmen’s bills, and even music. From the beginning, Revere participated in public affairs. The Reader’s Companion to American History.