“Listen my children, and you shall hear”, Paul Revere and the American Revolution by Ethel Ames is about Paul Revere's journey to stop the red coats from invading. Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow is about the ride of what Paul Revere had. How accurate was Paul Revere's poem by Franklin Johnson was about how historically accurate Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow was. The poem Paul Revere's ride by Henry Longfellow had many historically inaccuracies. Three ways he got the poem was historically wrong is they used the lanterns for the wrong thing and there we're 3 people in the event, and they did not tell us how the ride ends.
One big inaccuracy was the number of people with Revere. The riders with Revere in the Longfellows poem was just Revere, but there was actually two other riders with Revere. In Johnson's article, he states “Longfellow did not mention Dawes and Prescott-two other riders on the same mission that night in 1775. Also, Ames article states, “On the evening of April 18, 1775, Revere was sent to Lexington to warn the American leader Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were on their way to arrest them and seize weapons being stored in Concord.” Longfellow's poem states that it was just Revere on the mission when it was …show more content…
Or, it is equally likely that Longfellow did not care as much about historical accuracy as he did about creating a vivid picture of a patriot who acted bravely to arouse the country when a terrible danger was at hand.” Therefore, this shows that Longfellow did not care for being wrong it was 85 years in the past, but without him Paul Revere wouldn't be known like he is today. Dr. Martin King Jr. said that “we still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at
One big inaccuracy was the number of people with Revere. The riders with Revere in the Longfellows poem was just Revere, but there was actually two other riders with Revere. In Johnson's article, he states “Longfellow did not mention Dawes and Prescott-two other riders on the same mission that night in 1775. Also, Ames article states, “On the evening of April 18, 1775, Revere was sent to Lexington to warn the American leader Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were on their way to arrest them and seize weapons being stored in Concord.” Longfellow's poem states that it was just Revere on the mission when it was …show more content…
Or, it is equally likely that Longfellow did not care as much about historical accuracy as he did about creating a vivid picture of a patriot who acted bravely to arouse the country when a terrible danger was at hand.” Therefore, this shows that Longfellow did not care for being wrong it was 85 years in the past, but without him Paul Revere wouldn't be known like he is today. Dr. Martin King Jr. said that “we still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at