Get to Know PAUL REVERE - #2

Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith craftsman and a patriot in the American Revolution, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as an officer in the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he was early to recognize the potential for large-scale manufacturing of metal goods and is considered by some historians to be the prototype of the American industrialists.
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Revere's role was not particularly noted during his life. In 1860, over forty years after his death, the ride became the subject of "Paul Revere's Ride", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem has become one of the best known in American history

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

His ride inland from Charlestown to warn the militias at Lexington and Concord of the approach of British army troops from Boston was triggered by the two lanterns in the Old North Church, indicating that the British soldiers were crossing the Charles River.