02991cam a2200373 i 4500 1992915837 TxAuBib 20250521120000.0 241205s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024049898 9781250341372 HRD 29.00 125034137X HRD 29.00 TxAuBib rda Kennedy, Kostya, author. The ride [BOOK] : Paul Revere and the night that saved America / Kostya Kennedy. Paul Revere and the night that saved America. First edition. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2025. 289 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Map on endlpapers. Includes bibliographical references 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 Dowes -- The ride -- Mark in chains -- Theride -- Longfellow -- Echoes. "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 across New England and other colonies, 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. Kennedy reveals Revere’s ride to be more complex than it is usually portrayed―a loosely coordinated series of rides by numerous men, near-disaster, capture by British forces, and finally success. While Revere was central to the ride and its plotting, Kennedy reveals the other men (and, perhaps, a woman with information about the movement of British forces) who helped to set in motion the events that would lead to America’s independence.". 20250521. Revere, Paul 1735-1818. Dawes, William 1745-1799. Minutemen (Militia) Massachusetts. Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775. Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775. Massachusetts History Revolution, 1775-1783.