![]() ![]() Revere, Joseph Warren, William Dawes, and many other like-minded people, set up a signalling system to warn fellow rebels of threatening British army movements. True, Paul Revere did warn fellow Massachusetts patriots that the British were coming, but the whole story, including why Longfellow wrote the poem, is far more complicated and interesting than that. “The British are coming, the British are coming!” he yelled, and all good patriots were expected to get ready to fight them.Īlas, Buzzkillers, like many stories we know so well from the American Revolutionary period, “Paul Revere’s Ride” is more a product of mid-to-late 19th century nationalism than late 18th century patriotism. On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith and American patriot, jumped on his horse and rode through “every Middlesex village and farm” to warn the people that the British army had landed and were about to march inland. ![]() ![]() The true story of the Ride of Paul RevereĪll American children grow up hearing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem that tells us this great story. Listen, oh Buzzkillers, and you shall hear, ![]()
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