What is the big ride of paul revere?

Answer 1

You may be thinking of the "midnight ride" of Paul Revere, although at the time (April 1775), it certainly was big-- as in, very important. Paul Revere was a silversmith, and he was also a patriot, a member of the group who were opposed to British rule over the colonies. His famous ride was when he and two other brave men (William Dawes and Samuel Prescott) went on horseback to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were on the way; Adams and Hancock were leaders of the American patriots, and Revere wanted to give them enough time to prepare for the impending battle; the other goal of the midnight ride was to prepare the revolutionaries to defend Concord, where their ammunition and weapons were stored (they didn't want the British soldiers to find and capture these weapons, for obvious reasons).

Revere and his colleagues stopped at a number of houses along the way and warned other revolutionaries that the British troops were approaching. But Revere himself didn't get everywhere he had hoped to go because British soldiers arrested him (although they ultimately let him go). And contrary to myth (and to a poem written many years later by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), he never warned anyone by saying "The British are coming"-- since he was British and so were all of the colonists (the colonies had not yet declared their independence). He probably shouted "the Regulars are coming"-- 'regulars' meant the British troops.