Paul Reveres Ride

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Paul Revere's Ride

In David Hackett Fischer’s book, ”Paul Revere’s Ride”, he brings out the facts about what really happened on Revere’s midnight ride. He discusses the differences of Paul Revere and General Thomas Gage as the American Revolution begins.
Paul Revere’s father was sent to America on a boat by his uncle at the age of twelve. His name was Apollos Riviore. He was a French man sent to make his own destiny, and became a struggling goldsmith. He changed his name to Revere so that the Yankees would have an easier time pronouncing it He married into the Hitchcock family and had a son Paul Revere. Paul Revere was raised as an Englishman to respect and protect the laws. He grew up in Northern Boston and learned the goldsmith trade from his father. At age nineteen he took over his fathers business and mainly worked with silver. He married twice and had sixteen children. Only six of them survived. Throughout his whole life he attended Bostons New Brick Church. Revere was a very strait forward man and was looked highly upon by others. Revere founded and served on many different organizations. He was in a group called The Sons Of Liberty, which were basically the cause of the the Boston Tea Party, when they refused to pay the Kings taxes on tea in the mid 1770’s. The King sent British troops into Massachuttes to try to keep order. This was the beginning of the Revolutionary War. This is also when Paul Revere began to make all of his different journeys by horse to New York and Philidelphia to figure out a way to keep the British from extraditing the people of New England. The result was to form a type of government. Paul Revere was known as much more than merely a messenger. He was a man of much importance and leadership throughout the entire Revolution. General Thomas Gage was also an Englishman who had Very different ways and beliefs than Paul Revere. He believed in serving the King and preserving the English way....