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Comparison Of Paul Revere's Ride

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The two documents Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the letter from Paul Revere to DR. Jeremy Belknap that was written in 1798. The letter written for Jeremy Belknap is about “Paul Revere’s Ride” including other people had warned him about British and that was running from British but after he fled them woke up a captain and that told almost every house until he got to Lexington. While the poem Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is mainly about how he rode to Lexington warning people it does not include and details or facts about him running into many British soldiers or being warned by other people about British soldiers ahead. Next, the two documents Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the letter from Paul Revere to DR. Jeremy Belknap are similar because both include using lantern as singles. Quotes to support that that both articles have something in common is from the poem, it states “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” This quote is important because it support that in the documents it talks about using lanterns as signals. Another quote that shows the two documents are similar it states “ The Sunday before, I agreed with Colonel Conant and some other gentlemen that if the British went out by water, we would show two lanterns in the North

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