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Identifier: truestoryofpaulr00gett (find matches)
Title: The true story of Paul Revere, his midnight ride, his arrest and court-martial, his useful public services
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gettemy, Charles Ferris, 1868- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Revere, Paul, 1735-1818. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y of Paul Bevere was intended to guard against the verything which happened, namely, successfulcommunication between the Boston patriotsand their colleagues in the country. Itwas, in short, impossible for the British tomake an unusual stir such as was involvedin the preparations for moving eight hun-dred troops out of Boston without that factbecoming instantly noised all over town. Itis equally absurd to suppose that any onecould have thought under the circumstancesthat the most likely destination of the troopswas not Lexington and Concord. It is notat all necessary to invest this affair with anymystery, and to imagine that a stable-boy,an imprudent British sergeant-major, or thetalkative wife of the commander of theKings forces divulged a great secret whichcould have been no secret to men of aver-age wit and powers of observation, espe-cially when such men were on the qui viveof suspicion and expectancy. No one can familiarize himself with thetemper of the Boston populace on that(92)
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The Old North Church. The Midnight Bide April night, and with the character andpersonahty of Paul Revere, and not ap-preciate that in the whole town none wasin a better position than he to know whatthe plans of the British were. He was in thethick of everything that was taking place.On Tuesday evening, the 18th, hewrites, it was observed that a number ofsoldiers were marching toward the bottomof the Common, which meant that theywere to be transported across the river toCharlestown or Cambridge, instead of mak-ing the long march around by way of Bos-ton Neck. No need of any lanterns beinghung out in a church spire to inform himwhether the red-coats were going by landor by sea! He knew all about this longbefore he got into his row-boat that night.But let him tell his own story: ^ Reveres narrative ; first published as a letter toJeremy Belknap, Secretary of the Massachusetts His-torical Society, in 1798. See the Society Collections,Vol. 5, pp. 106-112. The narrative was republished in18

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