paul revere

     

Title hero who "silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, just as the moon rose over the bay"

Trivia about paul revere

  • In April 1775 Gen. J. Warren made him an official messenger of the Committee of Safety
  • In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Landlord's Tale" concerns this man & begins with the word "Listen"
  • This silversmith briefly served in the militia taking part in the disastrous Penobscot Expedition
  • On April 18, 1775 he was captured by the British but released; he had to walk back to Lexington
  • In the wee hours of an April morning in 1775, this silversmith warned, "The British are Coming!"
  • Samuel Prescott made it to Concord to warn the patriots while this rider was captured en route
  • “The regulars are out!” he warned Hancock & Adams on April 18, 1775
  • At least 3 complete sets of this Boston silversmith's tea sets are known to survive
  • In early April 1775 William Dawes, Samuel Prescott & this man rode to warn Patriots to move military stores from Concord
  • One of the few portraits of colonial craftsmen is Copley's painting of this silversmith
  • Famous alarmist depicted in the following"His mission, to warn Adams and Hancock, hiding out in a Lexington parsonage..."
  • Cyrus Dallin made the sculpture of this man that's near the Old North Church
  • 2 days before his more famous ride of April 18, 1775, he galloped to Concord to warn patriots to move military supplies
  • Boston's 1-ton-plus King's Chapel bell was recast in 1816 by this patriot
  • "And so through the night went his cry of alarm to every Middlesex village and farm"
  • His daughter Frances married Thomas Eayres, a silversmith like her dad
  • "Listen my children & you shall hear", this silversmith did more than horse around; he made surgical instruments too
  • This silversmith made an historic midnight ride April 18, 1775
  • We wonder if this man, who supplied bolts & spikes for the ship, ever took a midnight ride on her
  • Man in the title of the 1863 poem that says, "One, if by land, and two, if by sea"
  • Longfellow's poem about this patriot begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear..."
  • Earlier in 1775 he rode to warn the patriots to move their military stores from Concord
  • In 1792 this silversmith cast the first church bell made in Boston
  • On the night of April 18, 1775 this man rode to Lexington to warn Hancock to get out of town
  • An American hero on April 18, 1775, he was accused of cowardice in 1779, but a court-martial cleared him
  • This craftsman designed the 1st official seal of the Colonies & the 1st issue of Continental currency
  • This silversmith was accused of cowardice on the Penobscot Expedition but was later cleared
  • His home at 19 North Square is the oldest building in downtown Boston
  • This patriot's foundry made the State House dome watertight in 1802 by sheathing it with a thick layer of copper
  • For $5,000 everybody sing! "We got the bond right here, on it is..."
  • The Unitarian Church in Burlington once had a bell cast by this patriot
  • "It was one by the village clock, when" this man "galloped into Lexington"
  • In 1808 & 1809 this silversmith made copper plates for Robert Fulton's steamship boilers
  • One of the few portraits of colonial craftsmen is Copley's painting of this silversmith
  • On his way to Concord on the night of April 18-19, 1775, he was captured & had to return to Lexington on foot
  • This subject of a Longfellow poem watched with eager search the belfry-tower of the Old North Church"
  • 16 months before his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, he participated in the Boston Tea Party
  • After taking part in the Tea Party, he rode to Philadelphia in a less famous ride to report on it
  • You can visit the Boston house that this man left to go for a ride April 18, 1775
  • The "Silver Liberty Bowl", created by this man born in 1735, is in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
  • During the war this silversmith had a booming business casting cannons for the Continental Army
  • After his April 1775 ride, he rescued papers from a Lexington tavern belonging to John Hancock
  • He protested the Stamp Act through his widely circulated copper engravings
  • In 1776 this silversmith set up a mill to make gunpowder after the colonists ran out of it at Bunker Hill
  • This American silversmith & patriot was noted for his courier service
  • The Raiders, a "Revolutionary" group of the '60s, were led by a man with this Revolutionary name
  • In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler
  • Between 1761 & 1797, he fashioned over 5,000 silver pieces, including the one seen here
  • At age 15 he was a bellringer at the Old North Church; 25 years later he told the church sexton to light 2 lanterns