most americans do not know who paul revere was actualy a nobody?

Question

do you know who paul revere actualy is and what he actualy did,well the true histiry is he was a...........?i know,you have to look it up,and NO he was no real hero,he only went so far,who was the real hero who warned the people.......................i know do YOU?

Answer 1

William Dawes and Samuel Prescott actually did the warning. However, Revere is famous because of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem. Somehow Longfellow's father knew Revere and had embellished the story. Hence the poem and the historical misinformation.

Answer 2

Yes, Paul Revere was a hero and American patriot. He was responsible for warning the American Colonialist's rag tag army that the British army was approaching Boston. He risked his life for America's freedom. Had the British known that Paul Revere was an American spy, they would have surely hung him like they hung Nathan Hale. Paul Revere lived a fairly comfortable life as a silversmith. It wouldn't have affected his material comfort much one way or the other if the British or Colonists won the war. He was motivated by freedom and the ideals of the "insurrectionists". Some modern theorists have speculated that Paul Revere was actually a double spy who was employed by the British. Nothing has ever been proven about that theory, possible because it would ruin a great story of American folk lore.

Answer 3

Wasn't he a silversmith or something? I mean before he became famous as the man known for yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!" I'm going to go look it up now, lol.

Wow, I was actually correct. I can't remember where I learned it from though.

"Paul Revere (bap. December 22, 1734 (OS) / January 1, 1735 (NS) – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.

Because he was immortalized after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol. In his lifetime, Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston craftsman, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military.

Revere later served as an officer in one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, a role for which he was later exonerated. After the war, he was early to recognize the potential for large-scale manufacturing of metal."

We had to memorize that poem in 5th grade. Each student had to memorize a stanza or two. I can't remember what part mine was.

Answer 4

In America, anybody might be rich and famous tomorrow.
In America, nobodys are somebody. And that's why every day people from all over the world are literally dying to get in here. And that why America is so great, because the ones that do literally are strong and wonderful, and in this atmosphere of encouragement, they become even better.

(Paul was a silversmith. He didn't get rich from the poem. Just famous. He didn't intend to be famous. But he certainly illustrates our point, doesn't he? The other guy already Was famous. And his name didn't fit the the poem. Did it?!)

Uhhhh let's see: Listen my children, and gents and madams, Of the midnight ride of Samuel Adams.....

Answer 5

Samuel Adams

Answer 6

Metallica

Answer 7

He was known for his 15 miles...er, minutes of fame. That is all that he is known for, and that is enough.

Since political correctness took over, no one wants a "standard" to compare with. Everyone is too busy tearing down others so they won't become the "standard".
How sad.

Answer 8

Actually, my teacher told us about this last year. I forget the mans name but it's crazy how history can happen like that..

Answer 9

Yep, I did know that he was a nobody. Don't know the blanks, though.

Answer 10

go put deodorant on lousy brit