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Paul Revere's ride
Paul Revere's ride Paul Revere riding on the night of April 18, 1775, to warn Boston-area residents that British troops were coming.

Paul Revere’s Ride

poem by Longfellow
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What Really Happened on Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?He did not say “The British are coming.”
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Paul Revere’s Ride, poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1861 and later collected in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863). This popular folk ballad about a hero of the American Revolution is written in anapestic tetrameter, which was meant to suggest the galloping of a horse, and is narrated by the landlord of an inn who remembers the famous “midnight ride” to warn the Americans about the impending British invasion. Although the account of the ride is historically inaccurate, the poem created an American legend.

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