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Revere had no part in the battle of Lexington. He was to warn the men in Concord that the British were coming to collect the guns/powder stored there, but enroute to Concord he was arrested by a British patrol outside of Lexington. His horse was taken from him and the man who did do the ride was a Dr. Prescott along with another man named Dawes. The only reason we know about Revere is because in 1861( nearly a 100 years later) Longfellow wrote a poem called The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. This was on the eve of the civil war and Longfellow meant the poem to tell a story about the start of the United States not to give factual history. The poem has been taken as fact and put in history books. It is not fact. The only part of it that is true is that Revere left Boston on the night of April 18, 1775.

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