Paul Revere Made Two Epochal Rides for American Liberty

It is one of the ironies of American history that Paul Revere should be best remembered for a horse ride he never completed — and which triggered a war that might never have happened had he not galloped about in the night alarming the countryside.

Of greater significance, and a triumph of horsemanship, was another ride a year earlier by Revere in 1774.

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