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Taylor Mathess 6th gradePaul Revere Slide2

Paul Revere's 12 ChildrenJoseph Warren RevereSarah RevereElizabeth Revere

Maria RevereLucy Revere

Frances RevereDeborah RevereIsanna Revere

Harriet RevereJoshua ReverePaul Revere Jr.

John Revere

In April of 1775 the British Army was stationed in Boston and rumor had it that they were about to make a move on the leaders of the Sons of Liberty and other American Patriots. The Sons of Liberty were watching the British closely so they could warn the colonists if they started to attack. Two main riders were to set out and warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. Paul Revere would go across the Charles River to Charlestown and then to Lexington. William Dawes would ride a longer, but different route. This way, hopefully one of them would make it there safely to warn Adams and Hancock. There also were other riders that Revere and Dawes would tell along the way. They would pass the warning on to other locations.

Paul Revere's RideSlide3

Just a short story about Paul RevereOnce upon time lived a man that went through town saying " The Regulars are coming" he said that twice and then that went everyone get in a safe place and don't come out till I tell you to. So everyone went to a safe place. Then the fighting became a war and it was a bad one to. It was the Revolutionary War. Now after that war it was totally fine. Slide4

Vocabulary SlideAloft - At or to great height; high up in or into the air.Belfry -

A bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building.Muffle - deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.Mooring - A place where a craft can be made fast.

Phantom - A ghostly appearing figure. Spectral - Of or like a ghostGirth - The measurement around the middle of something, especially a person's waist.

Grenadier - A soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher.Man - of - War - An armed sailing shipAghast - Filled with horror or shock

Kindle - Light or set on fire

Impetuous - Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

Encampment - A place with temporary accommodations consisting of huts or tents, typically for troops or nomads.

Tranquil - Free from disturbance or calmSentinel - A soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.Barrack - Provides (soldiers) with accommodations in a building or set of buildings.Muster - Assemble (troops), especially for inspection or in preparation for battle.Defiance - Open resistance; bold disobediencePeril - Serious and immediate dangerLinger - Stay in place no longer than necessary, typically because of reluctance to leave.Slide5

Paul Revere's PoemHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year.He said to his friend, "If the British march

By land or sea from the town to-night,

Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--

One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm."Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar

Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,

Just as the moon rose over the bay,

Where swinging wide at her moorings lay

The Somerset, British man-of-war;

A phantom ship, with each mast and spar

Across the moon like a prison bar,

And a huge black hulk, that was magnified

By its own reflection in the tide.

Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street

Wanders and watches, with eager ears,

Till in the silence around him he hears

The muster of men at the barrack door,

The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,

And the measured tread of the grenadiers,

Marching down to their boats on the shore.Slide6

LISTEN, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Paul revere's midnight ride Quote?Slide7

Paul Revere's Early LifeAn obituary in the Boston Intelligence commented, "seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable and useful". This seems an accurate representation of the life of one of the more modest and trustworthy men who ever walked the face of the earth.Born in Boston's North End in December, 1734, Paul Revere was the son of Apollos Reverie, a French Huguenot (Protestant) immigrant, and Deborah Hitch bourn, daughter of a local artisan family. Reverie, who changed his name to Paul Revere some time after immigrating, was a goldsmith and eventually the head of a large household. Paul Revere was the second of at least 9, possibly as many as 12 children and the eldest surviving son.

In 1811, at the age of 76, Paul Revere retired and left his well-established copper business in the hand of his sons and grandsons. Revere seems to have remained healthy in his final years, despite the personal sorrow caused by the deaths of his wife Rachel and son Paul in 1813. Revere died of natural causes on May 10, 1818 at the age of 83, leaving five children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The son of an immigrant artisan, not born to wealth or inheritance, Revere died a modestly well-to-do businessman and a popular local figure of some note. An obituary in the Boston Intelligence

commented, "seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable and useful." Paul Revere is buried in Boston's Granary Burying Ground. Slide8

Paul Revere Video'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dKJ75F3tj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I963GC3mzm0 Slide9

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