Paul Revere’s Ride

Poets.org ^ | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[CharlesOConnell]

Woodmere Art Museum

Narrator, piano, bass drums

The Landlord’s Tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8CdFf6z4V8

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

I forgot to mention that Estabrook is buried in the graveyard behind a church with its bell cast by Paul Revere’s business.

[FatherofFive]

You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled,— How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.

This is why they want our guns. And why the Swiss have a gun in every house

[missthethunder]

You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled,— How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
This is why they want our guns. And why the Swiss have a gun in every house.

OK, I’m stealing the above and posting it to Facebook.
It’s just so true.

[Verginius Rufus]

A great poem despite a few inaccuracies. Paul Revere was stopped by the British and did not make it to Concord--but Dr. Samuel Prescott did.

If not for the first shot fired in Lexington (no one knows who fired it) possibly the day would have ended without bloodshed--but because there was bloodshed, the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. But it was more than a year before the Second Continental Congress was ready to consider declaring independence.

[Fledermaus]

Most of the ride was done by someone else. The name escapes me.

[DFG]

William Dawes and Samuel Prescott were the other riders.

Revere was captured by British troops before reaching Concord, but Prescott eventually made it to the town to alert the militia.

[ebshumidors]

Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fisher is my go to book on this.

[FatherofFive]

OK, I’m stealing the above and posting it to Facebook. It’s just so true.

The Founding Fathers were genius, and created the Constitution, the greatest document ever written, after the Bible