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Paul Revere

18th April 1775 on the strong big-boned mare 'Brown Beauty' may have been her name borrowed from John Larkin a very good horse of Narragansett Pacer fame a copper-bottomed silversmith Son of Liberty Patriot and Boston-born riding with Prescott and Dawes toward Lexington then Concord minutemen in advance to warn of the British Army's actions was intercepted in Lincoln but doing his bit the man had lanterns as the plan and arranged to have a signal lit in the Charlestown Old North Church with one if by land two if by sea but in those long-gone days as it was unknown technology right then and there it was quite unlikely to see three if by air some say vestryman Pulling and sexton Newman (not a deacon) as the midnight rider never made it all the way were the real heroes of the day in fact quite a beacon

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