what is paul revere horse's name?

Question

a friend of mine asked me this question i can not figure it out plese help

Answer 1

No one knows. The horse he rode belonged to the Larkin family, but people didn't make a practice of naming all their horses in those days. In the Longfellow poem, it was named "Brown Beauty." Although that horse also belonged to the Larkins , there is no evidence that it was the one that was ridden by Paul Revere.
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Answer 2

While no one knows what the name of the horse was, there are a couple very interesting side notes here. First, Revere would never have yelled "The British are coming" because he was himself a citizen of Great Britain. In fact, almost everyone in the colonies were. What he probably shouted was "The Redcoats are coming"

That is, of course, he would have shouted that if he had ever made it very far out of Boston or its suburbs. He in fact was arrested and never made it down the road to Lexington or Concord. His partner, however, did make it, but because Longfellow didn't write a poem about him no one remembers his name Somehow it just doesn't fit, "Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Samuel Prescott" It doesn't have the same ring to it as Paul Revere.

Answer 3

Horses in History: Brown Betty

Accounts of the times reveal that Revere, a silversmith about 40 years of age, oddly enough did not even own a horse.

So it appears that Paul Revere made one of the most famous rides in American History warning colonists "The British Are Coming" on the back of a twice-borrowed horse, of whom no name or description was recorded.

Switching my attention from Revere to Larkin, the lender of the horse, had horses and stable. He was the owner of Brown Beauty, the mare of Paul Revere’s ride…The mare was loaned at the request of Samuel Larkin’s son, Deacon John Larkin, and was never returned to her owner." Further, the horse was "an excellent specimen of a New England saddlehorse--big strong and very fast."

I conclude with the final stanza of that poem:



For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.