Biography paul revere video clips
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Paul Revere is best known as the Boston silversmith immortalized in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem describing the Patriot's midnight ride to warn about a British attack.
Biography paul revere video clips
But that 1775 ride (which wasn't exactly as Longfellow described) is only one chapter in Revere's role in the American Revolution—and in his long life.
Here are 9 facts about the colonial hero.
Paul Revere’s father, Apollos Rivoire, was a French Huguenot who immigrated to Boston at age 13 and Anglicized his family name before marrying a local girl named Deborah Hitchbourn.
Born around 1734 and one of 11 or 12 children, Paul never learned to read or speak French, though he did fight against Apollos’ former compatriots during the French and Indian War.
2. A silversmith by trade, he sometimes worked as an amateur dentist.
Revere used his skills as a craftsman to wire dentures made of walrus ivory or animal teeth into his patients’ mouths.
In 1776 he unwittingly became the first person to practice forensi