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Israel Bissell, also spelled Bissel (1752 – October 24, 1823), was a patriot post rider who delivered mail between Boston, Massachusetts and New York.. On April 19, 1775, British forces fired on colonists in Lexington and Concord, inciting the American Revolutionary War.
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 (/ 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 ...
20th-century depiction of Revere's ride. Paul Revere's Midnight Ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Richard Hudson Rattletrap, a character in The Disappointment, one of the first American operas, it was to have been performed on 20 April 1762 in Philadelphia Rattletrap (Transformers) - a fictional character.
Midnight Ride may refer to: Midnight Ride, a 1990 American action/thriller; Midnight Ride, an album by Paul Revere & the Raiders "Midnight Ride" (song), a 2024 song by Orville Peck, Kylie Minogue and Diplo; Paul Revere's Midnight Ride in 1775 at the beginning of the Revolutionary war
You're playing along in Star Wars Galaxies, enjoying the new content added by the Chapter 9 content patch. They've added a load of new stuff, like the Exar Kun heroic instance and the PvP ...
Revere's exploits led to HMS Somerset’s immortalisation in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere': Then he said 'Good-night!' and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war;