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Revere worked with the Sons of Liberty and was paid to warn that the British had landed in Charlestown. Yet, he didn’t finish the ride because he ran into a British patrol on his way to Concord. He was arrested and his horse taken. In 1860 Longfellow wrote a poem called The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and he wrote that Revere rode through the countryside yelling “ the British are coming.” This is not true and the purpose of the poem was to remind people of their common history. Revere was a silversmith, gunsmith, and artist. He drew the picture on the handbill showing the Boston massacre.

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