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The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution Through Contemporary Eyes. New York: Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-1644-9. OCLC 1510269. Fischer, David Hackett (1994). Paul Revere's Ride. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508847-2. OCLC 263430392. Knollenberg, Bernhard (1975). Growth of the American Revolution, 1766–1775. New ...
Paul Revere's engraving of British troops landing in Boston in response to events set off by the Circular Letter.. The Massachusetts Circular Letter was a statement written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr., and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (as constituted in the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, not the current constitution) in February 1768 in response ...
The Hutchinson letters affair was an incident that increased tensions between the colonists of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the British government prior to the American Revolution. In June 1773, letters written several years earlier by Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver , who were governor and lieutenant governor of the province at ...
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 ...
"A View of the Year 1765" by Paul Revere (engraving) "Liberty Tree" by Thomas Paine (poem) Otis, James (1896). Under the Liberty Tree: A Story of The 'Boston Massacre'. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. Young, Alfred F. (2006). Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814729359
Pelham's engraving of the 1770 Boston Massacre, the fatal shooting of five civilians by British soldiers in Boston, was made soon after the event happened. Pelham's work was copied by Paul Revere , and Revere's engraving was distributed throughout the thirteen colonies , furthering resentment against the British monarchy amidst the American ...
The band's namesake and the organist was born Paul Revere Dick, named after Revere. [30] The song "Me and Paul Revere", written by musician Steve Martin and performed with his bluegrass group Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, was inspired by the tale of Paul Revere's ride and told from the point of view of Revere's horse, Brown Beauty ...
Engraving of the Boston Massacre Garrick initiated, drawn by Paul Revere. During the evening of March 5, 1770, a drunk Edward Garrick and his fellow wigmaker's apprentice Bartholomew Broaders were among a crowd of local youth taunting and throwing snowballs at [8] John Goldfinch, a captain-lieutenant of the British Army. [9]