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[[Image:Paul Revere.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Paul Revere]]
[[Image:Paul Revere.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Paul Revere]]
'''Paul Revere''' (1734-1818) was a silversmith in colonial America who was very active in [[Boston]]-area revolutionary groups such as the [[Sons of Liberty]]. He is famous for riding from Boston to Lexington, [[Massachusetts]] with [[William Dawes]] on the night of April 18, 1775 to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that [[British]] troops were coming to arrest them. Revere was captured before he could reach [[Concord]], but managed to escape.<ref>[http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/events/revere/page2.html]</ref> His midnight ride was immortalized by a poem by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]].<ref>[http://www.hwlongfellow.org/works_paul_reveres_ride.shtml]</ref><ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/42/789.html]</ref>
'''Paul Revere''' (1734-1818) was a silversmith in colonial America who was very active in [[Boston]]-area revolutionary groups such as the [[Sons of Liberty]]. He is famous for riding from Boston to Lexington, [[Massachusetts]] with [[William Dawes]] on the night of April 18, 1775 to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that [[British]] troops were coming to arrest them. Revere was captured before he could reach [[Concord]], but managed to escape.<ref>[http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/events/revere/page2.html]</ref>
Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate, suggested in 2010 that Paul Revere also warned the British against any attempt to disarm the colonialists, and that his ride resulted in bells being rung. In response, liberal journalists and commentators ridiculed Palin, saying that her depiction of these events was illogical and her knowledge of history lacking. Speaking during an interview with National Public Radio, however, the head of the history department of Suffolk College in Boston supported Palin and verified that both events did occur. <ref>http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere</ref>
Paul Revere's midnight ride was immortalized by a poem by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]].<ref>[http://www.hwlongfellow.org/works_paul_reveres_ride.shtml]</ref><ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/42/789.html]</ref>
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