TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kennedy,Kostya
TI  - The ride: Paul Revere and the night that saved America / 
SN  - 9781250341372
AV  - F69.R43 K466 2025
U1  - 973.3/311092B 23/eng/20250106
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Revere, Paul,
KW  - Dawes, William,
KW  - Minutemen (Militia)
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
KW  - Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index; Echoes -- The bell ringer, 1750 -- Kinship -- Portrait of the artist as a young irreverent -- A certain resolve -- The Somerset -- Portsmouth, December 1774 -- The Sunday before -- Bidden -- The estimable William Dawes -- The ride -- Mark in chains -- The ride -- Longfellow -- Echoes
N2  - "On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to fulfill a dangerous but crucial mission: to alert American colonists of advancing British troops, which would seek to crush their nascent revolt. Revere was not the only rider that night, and indeed, he had completed at least 18 previous rides throughout New England, disseminating intelligence about British movements. But this ride was like no other, and its consequences in the months and years to come--as the American Revolution morphed from isolated skirmishes to a full-fledged war--became one of our founding legends. In The Ride, Kostya Kennedy presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary source research into archives, family letters and diaries, contemporary accounts, and more"--
ER  -