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Paul Revere | |
| Besides acting as a courier for Massachusetts' secret Committee of Correspondence and participating in the Boston Tea Party, | ||
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Revere was a noted silver-
and goldsmith, printer and engraver, bell-founder, dentist, soldier, brewer,
and propagandist of
the American cause.
Most Americans remember
Paul Revere (1735-1818) because of Longfellow's
famous poem, "Paul Revere's
Ride."
(Fellow messengers William
Dawes and Samuel Prescott are all but
forgotten,
even though they got through to Lexington and Concord, while Revere was captured
and held by the British.)
In any case, the message
got through, and the Minutemen turned out
to meet the British expeditionary force
that Revere was sent to warn about. The
Battle
of Lexington and Battle
of Concord were the result, igniting the Revolutionary
War.
He
even had a
profitable business shipping
ice from
Massachusetts' winter ponds to the torrid
West Indies.
Revere's
house in Boston's
North
End is
now a notable museum.
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Statue of Paul Revere behind Old North Church in Boston's North End.
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