What was Paul Revere's midnihgt ride?

Answer 1

On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Charleston, Massachusetts, to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts to warn the people that a British army was about to attack the people in those towns. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow wrote a famous poem about his ride.

Listen my children and you shall hear/ of the midnight ride of Paul Revere/... Hang a lantern in the steeple of the Old North Church/ One if by land and two if by sea/ and I on the opposite shore shall be/ ready to ride and shout the alarm/ to every Middlesex village and farm/ ... and two lanterns hung in the steeple of the Old North Church.

Earlier battles were fought in the Revolutionary War, but that is the one that children learn about.

Answer 2

The fable of Revere comes from a Longfellow poem written in 1861 and in reality he didn't ride through the night yelling about the British coming. Longfellow wrote his poem on the eve of the civil war to remind people of the nation's history. Somehow the poem became part of history and was put into history books as fact. Revere never finished the ride, his horse was taken away and he was held by a British patrol, but thanks to Longfellow we all know who he is. He billed Congress for the ride and the cost of the horse since it was taken from him and it didn't belong to him. It was borrowed. His one big contribution was the picture on a flier after the Boston Massacre showing colonist getting shot by the British. This was pure Propaganda and was used to incite discontent between the colonist and the British troops.