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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. Genealogist William Ensign Lincoln , recorded a Larkin family tradition that the horse was a mare named "Brown Beauty" belonging to Samuel Larkin, John ...
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 ...
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 Old Gray Mare, the horse in the eponymous song; Paul Revere, the horse from the song of the same name, Paul Revere, by the Beastie Boys; Een paard in de gang, a horse which somehow ended up in neighbour Jansen's hallway. From the eponymous song by comedian André van Duin. Pinto the wonder horse from the song by Tom T. Hall.
It depicts the American patriot Paul Revere during his midnight ride on April 18, 1775. The perspective is from a high altitude as Revere rides through a brightly lit Lexington, Massachusetts. It was inspired by the 1860 poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] Wood used a child's hobby horse as model for Revere's horse. [2]
"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 ]
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The title alludes to Paul Revere's midnight ride, as does the subplot in which the town drunk rides his horse to warn people of the "invasion". Pablo Ferro created the main title sequence, using the American flag's red, white, and blue colors and the Soviet hammer and sickle as transitional elements, zooming into each to create a montage, which ...