I hate to pick nits but Revere never made it to Concord.
You are picking a nit with Longfellow. Were it not for Longfellow, there would be few nits to pick, most of the story would have faded from the popular consciousness. He gets credit for keeping the memory alive, but not for historical accuracy.
About half of Americans alive today cannot tell you what happened on December 7, 1941 or June 6, 1944, let alone the 18th of April in Seventy-Five. So thoroughly and successfully have the acolytes of Howard Zinn caste their evil spell on the teaching of American History.