What are facts about Paul Revere's life?

Answer 1

-He was of French

-He was a silversmith by trade

-He sometimes worked as an amateur dentist

-He was also known for his art

-He led a spy ring

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about Paul Revere’s ride got many of the facts wrong. For one thing, Revere was not alone on his mission to warn the patriots that the British were approaching Lexington. Two other men, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, rode alongside him, and by the end of the night as many as 40 men on horseback were spreading the word across Boston’s Middlesex County. Revere also never reached Concord, as the poem says.He and the two other riders were overtaken by the British so they split up and headed in different directions. Revere was captured by the British at Lexington and Dawes lost his way after falling off his horse, leaving Prescott—a young physician—the task of alerting Concord’s residents.

-Paul Revere never shouted “The British are coming!” as he passed from town to town. The operation was meant to be conducted as discreetly as possible since many of the British troops were hiding out in the Massachusetts countryside. If anything, Revere may have told other rebels that the “Regulars”—a term used to designate British soldiers—were on the move.

-A borrowed horse served as his worthy steed on the night of April 18, 1775. It is believed that the Charlestown merchant John Larkin loaned him a horse, which was later confiscated by the British. According to a Larkin family genealogy published in 1930, the name of the lost mare was Brown Beauty.