Paul Revere’s ride by David Hackett Fischer started with some brief background on Paul Revere and General Gage, and then went into an extremely detailed section of the famous ride that took place on April 18, 1775 . Fischer made many rethink what we always thought we knew about the man and his “Midnight Ride”. Pauls Reveres ride is know as a legendary event in American History that began American Revolutionary War. This book is a pretty good biography of Paul Revere, it almost seam as if Fischer was on this journey with Paul. Paul Revere was the son of a French immigrant silversmith. Paul Revere began to make bells for churched then soon after that he was one of the first manufactures in American to roll large copper sheets. He was a real entrepreneur. His church bells are still around and ring every April 19 it is a tradition to ring the bells in honor of his memory. He grew up in Boston, at that time a town of 15,000 that more resembled a medieval village. Paul Revere had lots of children his first was born shortly after his first marriage, it was very common in the eighteenth century. His first wife died and six short months later …show more content…
Paul was one of the many who served as a messenger to warn the people of the solders. Paul Revere was a organizer, he helped organize the Cons of Liberty, a terrorist group that included numerous secret signs and critic codes to communicate. Paul Reveres was a messenger, he made tons of extremely long rides on roads that were extremely hard to get around on. Paul Revere was kinda like a mail man in a way , he delivered important news to important people as fast as he could. Learning that the famous saying “the British are coming” is totally false was shocking, operantly they considered themselves British so the saying would be completely inaccurate. It just comes to show how little we truly know about what really took