according to historian David Hackett Fischer’s 1994 book, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” The British soldiers who were marching from Boston to Lexington and Concord on April 18 and 19, 1775 ...
A local legend in his own lifetime, he became a national folk hero with the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." ...