Loki wrote:
Two hundred and forty years ago today, Paul Revere made his ride. What most people don't realize is that three men made the ride; Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott.
The true story is that Revere only made a short part of the ride, and was intercepted and captured by a British patrol. Dawes and Prescott escaped. Dawes reportedly "fell off his horse," (a "horsewreck?" ), and Revere's ride was actually made by Dr. Samuel Prescott.
You mean it didn't happen like I heard it.
" Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
" He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm." "