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The following day after Paul Revere made his famous ride another young man Israel Bissell, a twenty three year old dispatch rider, was sent south to spread the news of the revolution.
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Exert from 'The Greatest Stories Ever Told', by Rick Beyer ISBN 0-06-001401-6
a History Channel Presents production
On April 19, 1775, a day after Paul Reveres famous ride, another epic ride has largely been forgotten.
Move Over, Paul Revere
"Under his spurs, his horse seemed to take wing. Local legend has it that he mad Worcester, a day's ride, in just tow hours, and that his horse dropped dead when he got there. With a new horse, Bissell was off again. Through Connecticut he raced, then to New York on to Philadelphia. Astonishingly, he rode 350 miles in just six days, a record time.
Paul Revere, by contrast, rode only twenty miles. but Reveres effort to "spread the alarm to every Middlesex village and farm" were immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Nobody wrote a poem about Israel Bissell, so he wound up one of history's has-beens."
In 1995. Massachusetts poet Clay Perry finally gave Bissell a poem of his own. He wrote:
Listen my children, to my epistle:
Of the long, long ride of Israel Bissell;
Who outrode Paul for miles and time;
But didn't rate a poet's rhyme
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