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Paul Revere - and his Horse
This statue graces a small park in the North End of Boston and depicts one of the neighborhood's most noted citizens - you can visit his house, which is nearby.
Paul Revere was a noted silversmith and pamphleteer and, of course, revolutionary. He is most famous for his April 20, 1775 "midnight ride" when he rode from Boston to warn his fellow rebels, specifically John Hancock and Samuel Adams, that British troops were coming to seize the gunpowder store at Concord. He rode with fellow revolutionary William Dawes and the 2 men happened to meet Samuel Prescott a Concord man whom Revere knew to be sympathetic to their cause. The group were confronted by British sentries early on and were arrested, but Prescott escaped and he was the one who finished the ride and rallied the local minutemen who fought the British troops and began the revolution.
Paul Revere - and his Horse
This statue graces a small park in the North End of Boston and depicts one of the neighborhood's most noted citizens - you can visit his house, which is nearby.
Paul Revere was a noted silversmith and pamphleteer and, of course, revolutionary. He is most famous for his April 20, 1775 "midnight ride" when he rode from Boston to warn his fellow rebels, specifically John Hancock and Samuel Adams, that British troops were coming to seize the gunpowder store at Concord. He rode with fellow revolutionary William Dawes and the 2 men happened to meet Samuel Prescott a Concord man whom Revere knew to be sympathetic to their cause. The group were confronted by British sentries early on and were arrested, but Prescott escaped and he was the one who finished the ride and rallied the local minutemen who fought the British troops and began the revolution.