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Paul Revere (/ r ɪ ˈ v ɪər /; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.) [N 1] – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of ...
Elizabeth Murray Revere (1828–1910), who married Robert Possac Rogers. [11] Maria Amelia Revere (1828–1905) Mary Josephine Revere (b. 1830) Paul Joseph Revere (1832–1863), also a member of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War who was a major in the regiment, received a mortal wound during the Battle of Gettysburg and died ...
Her parents were Benjamin Waldo Lamb and Deziah Lamb. [6] She was presumably named for her maternal grandmother, Rosanna Lamb née Duncan. [6] Her grandfather was Thomas Lamb (b. 1755), a lieutenant in Henry Jackson's Massachusetts regiment. [7] In 1842, she married Joseph Warren Revere, grandson of American revolutionary figure Paul Revere. [8]
Paul Revere (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Revere family" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – c. 1777) was an American physician and a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.He is best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts, of the impending British army move to capture guns and gunpowder kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Paul Revere, a patriot of the American Revolution, forever marked the date April 18, 1775, in history with his unique strategy to tackle the British along with his famous horseback ride warning ...
On April 17, 1775, British troops were dispatched by Governor General Sir Thomas Gage to seize weaponry held by suspected rebels. Paul Revere and Richard Devens combined efforts with John Larkin, to borrow his father's large horse in order to deliver intelligence to the towns of Menotomy (now Arlington) and Lexington.
The teenage girl who rode 40 miles overnight in the rain during the Revolutionary War – twice as far as Paul Revere two years earlier – to warn the Connecticut militia that the British were ...