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Most people think it was Paul Revere, but this is a myth. It was really two men. One named Prescott and the other Dawes. Revere started on the ride to warn the Sons of Liberty in Concord that the British regulars had crossed the Charles River and were heading their way, but mid way he was stopped and arrested by a British patrol. We only think of Revere because of Longfellow who in 1861 on the eve of the civil war wrote a poem called "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere". He was trying to remind people of the history of the United States and I suspect Revere was easier to rhyme than Dawes/ Prescott. So, he did a little juggling of the facts and it became history in some odd way.

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