The Atlantic: “On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five,” Paul Revere embarked on a ride to warn of the British troops’ arrival during the Revolutionary War. The tale is memorialized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, a version of which The Atlantic published in January 1861:

“On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five,” Paul Revere embarked on a ride to warn of the British troops’ arrival during the Revolutionary War. The tale is memorialized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, a version of which The Atlantic published in January 1861:

Paul Revere’s Ride