Paul Revere

Paul Revere's Ride" is an American poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. The poem was written on April 19, 1860 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in January of 1861. It was later published in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn in 1863. Longfellow's poem is credited with creating the national legend of Paul Revere, a previously little-known Massachusetts silversmith.