Paul Revere
According to an advance plan, a two-lantern signal in Boston’s Christ Church (known as the Old North Church) communicated that Gen. Gage’s forces were advancing by water, not land. Thanks to Longfellow’s poem, generations of American schoolchildren later learned the rebels’ simple lantern code: “One if by land, and two if by sea”… It has long been suggested — without concrete proof — that an informer let the American patriots know of the British army’s intentions, and that it may have been Margaret Kemble Gage, the British commander’s American-born wife… Many sources give Revere’s birthdate as 1 January 1735, but most historians these days agree he was probably born in late December of 1734, possibly on the 21st or 22nd.
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Historical site with a great version of his famous ride
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Reprinting the Longfellow poem that made him famous
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Neat side story about his patriotic propaganda
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