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In 1774 and the Spring of 1775 Paul Revere was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of resolutions as far away as New York and Philadelphia.
On the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
"Paul Revere's Ride" selections from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, children, and you shall hearof the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five;hardly a man now is alivewho remembers that famous day and year.He said to his friend, "If the British marchby land or sea from the town to-night,hang a lantern aloft in the belfry archof 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 alarmthrough every Middlesex village and farm,for the country follk to be up and arm."Then he said, "Good night!" and withmuffled oarsilently rowed to the Charlestown shore,...You know the rest. In the books you have read,how the British Regulars fired and fled,-how the farmers gave them ball for ball,from behind each fence and farmyard wall,then crossing the fields to emerge againunder the trees at the turn of the road,and only pausing to fire and load.So through the night rode Paul Revere;
and so through the night went his cry of alarmto every Middlesex village and farm,-a cry of defiance and not of fear,a voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,and a word that shall echo forevermore!For, borne on the night-wind of the past,through all our history, through the last,in the hour of darkness and peril and need,the people will waken and listen to hearthe hurrying hoof beats of that steed,and the midnight message ofPaul Revere.
http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.html
In 1774 and the Spring of 1775 Paul Revere was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of resolutions as far away as New York and Philadelphia.
On the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
"Paul Revere's Ride"
selections from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, children, and you shall hearof the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five;hardly a man now is alivewho remembers that famous day and year.He said to his friend, "If the British marchby land or sea from the town to-night,hang a lantern aloft in the belfry archof 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 alarmthrough every Middlesex village and farm,for the country follk to be up and arm."Then he said, "Good night!" and withmuffled oarsilently rowed to the Charlestown shore,...You know the rest. In the books you have read,how the British Regulars fired and fled,-how the farmers gave them ball for ball,from behind each fence and farmyard wall,then crossing the fields to emerge againunder the trees at the turn of the road,and only pausing to fire and load.So through the night rode Paul Revere;
and so through the night went his cry of alarmto every Middlesex village and farm,-a cry of defiance and not of fear,a voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,and a word that shall echo forevermore!For, borne on the night-wind of the past,through all our history, through the last,in the hour of darkness and peril and need,the people will waken and listen to hearthe hurrying hoof beats of that steed,and the midnight message ofPaul Revere.