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The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere Analysis
Schools all over the nation may been teaching the story of Paul Revere wrong. They use the knowledge they get from the poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,”. It was written in 1860. Mr. Longfellow, while getting some details right, he gets some parts wrong. There are many reasons that make the poem incorrect, three of those ways are that Paul Revere never saw the lanterns signal, that Paul Revere was captured, and that Mr. Revere never made it.
Some may claim that the Poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” is very credible. They say the date is correct and that there were two lanterns were used as a signal. However, those are just little details in the story,

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