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in fortification, facing to a wall or bank, as of a scarp REVERE, PAUL, an American pa-or parapet. The material depends upon triot, famous for his midnight ride from Boston to Lexington; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1735. He was the son of a goldsmith from Guernsey, whose trade he followed after serving as a lieutenant of artillery in the expedition against Crown Point (1756). He also engaged in copperplate printing, and before the Revolution constructed a gunpowder mill.
A keen patriot, he was one of the party that destroyed the tea in Boston harbor, and he was at the head of a volunteer committee, consisting of 30 young mechanics, who formed a secret society to watch the British. When it was known that the latter intended to move, Revere crossed over to Charlestown, and April 18, 1775, the night before Lexington and Concord, at a signal rode on to Lexington and to Lincoln, rousing the minutemen as he went; at Lincoln he was stopped, but a companion succeeded in reaching Concord. His ride is the subject of a well-known poem by Longfellow. During the war he rose to lieutenant-colonel of artillery; afterward he returned to his goldsmith's work, and in 1801 founded the Revere Copper Company at Canton, Mass. He died in Boston, May 10, 1818.