The real alert was spread by Paul Revere’s co-rider, Israel Bissell, who actually didn’t get intercepted and completed his circuit alerting the colonists. Revere got a total of less than thirteen miles before his ride got interrupted, but Bissell notified everyone he was supposed to in a ride lasting more than four days covering 345 miles! But as Robert Wuhl noted “the Midnight Ride of Israel Bissell” just isn’t as poetic as “the midnight ride of Paul Revere. . .”
They did name a vacuum cleaner after him, at least we can pretend it was named for him.
Someone write a poem for Bissell