Before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Before Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Poem
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Interesting Paul Revere Facts

• Silversmith in Boston made table articles,
  surgical instruments, glasses, replacements for
  missing teeth
• Revere had 16 children with two wives
• Friends with Sam Adams, John Adams, John Hancock,
  James Otis
• Hoping to trigger rebellion Sam Adams had him
  engrave the Boston Massacre propaganda piece
• DID NOT SHOUT The British are coming! Went door
  to door warning colonists The regulars are out
  (knocked on doors, threw pebbles at windows) WHY
  do you think it wouldnt have made sense to say
  the British are coming????
• System of signals arranged for the North
  Churchmeant as a backup plan if PR was detained
  and couldnt carry the message (it was NOT meant
  to alert him, it was setup by him to alarm
  others) Sons of Liberty/other patriots knew
  about the signals

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Other Interesting Facts

• Paul Revere participated in the Boston Tea Party
  ?
• The horse Paul Revere rode was not his own horse,
  it was borrowed (he couldnt take his horse with
  him in the canoe over the Charles River ?)
• He got to Lexington but did not get to Concord
  before he was captured
• During the AM REV he established a gunpowder mill
  
• He designed the first official seal of the 13
  colonies and the MASS seal 1776
• He was appointed a major in the Mass Militia

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• Paul Revere Capture Site
• "...in an instant I saw four of them, who rode up
  to me, with their pistols in their hands, said
  G-d d-n you stop. If you go an Inch further, you
  are a dead Man...we attempted to git thro them,
  but they kept before us, and swore if we did not
  turn in to that pasture, they would blow our
  brains out . . . .One of them, who appeared to
  have the command, and much of a Gentleman, Asked
  me where I came from I told him, he asked me
  what time I left it I told him, he seemed
  surprised, said Sir may I crave your name, I
  answered my name is Revere, what said he Paul
  Revere I answered yes the others abused much
  but he told me not to be afraid, no one should
  hurt me . . . I told him they would miss their
  aim"
• Revere's deposition

After Paul Revere was captured they released
him but didnt give him back his horse so he had
to walk to Lexington!!!
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After the poem was published
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Paul Reveres House
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Inside the Old North Church 8H stop
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Boston Skyline
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• Silver punch bowl made by Paul Revere
  commemorating the Sons of Liberty
• This bowl sold for 100,000 (1 million dollars
  now) after the poem was published (JP Morgan
  bought it)

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their
  flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the
  embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard
  round the world.The foe long since in silence
  sleptAlike the conqueror silent sleepsAnd
  Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark
  stream which seaward creeps.
• On this green bank, by this soft stream,We set
  to-day a votive stoneThat memory may their deed
  redeem,When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
• Spirit, that made those heroes dareTo die, and
  leave their children free,Bid Time and Nature
  gently spareThe shaft we raise to them and thee.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord
  Monument April 19, 1836 8L stop here

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• http//www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.html
• http//www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.html