BOSTON, Massachusetts, US – American historians like to criticize the accuracy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride”. As described in rhyme, Revere, in 1775, told a friend to hang a specific number of lanterns in this city’s Old North Church to alert the American colonists when the British army had arrived and also their mode of transportation before he took to galloping across multiple New England towns to alert the population. [...]
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