The Real Midnight Ride
He never finished the ride. And it didn't matter.
Everyone knows the poem — the lone rider, the lantern, the gallop through the night. The truth is messier, braver, and a lot more moving. On our Road to 250, we go back to April 18th, 1775, and walk through what actually happened: the muffled oars crossing enemy water, the riders who finished what Paul Revere couldn't, and the names history almost let us forget. Based on Kostya Kennedy's The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America.
Part two of our series leading up to July 4th, 2026. Next time: the men who built a government out of…
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