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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 ...
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.
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 ...
A marble statue that depicts a felled Native American pulling an arrow from his torso is being returned to the Boston-area organization cofounded by Paul Revere that thought it had been destroyed ...
"Paul Revere's Ride" was published in the January 1861, issue of The Atlantic magazine on December 20, 1860, just as South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States. [6] The poem was meant to appeal to Northerners' sense of urgency and, as a call for action, noted that history favors the courageous. [ 7 ]
On Sept. 11, 2006, Renesmee Carlie Cullen — daughter of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise — was born. That means as of 2024, Renesmee is now 18 years old!
Augustus Lefebvre Revere (1861-1910) was an American financier, banker, stock broker, and civic leader from Morristown, New Jersey. [1] He was a member of the Morristown Club, the Morristown Golf Club, the Morristown Field Club, and the Washington Association of New Jersey, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Memorial Day Association.