7 Reasons Everyone Hated Paul Revere
Under the moonlit New England sky, a lone figure on a majestic steed courageously brings the warning of an approaching army to the people of Concord and Lexington. The myth of Paul Revere, perpetuated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and others throughout history, has endured to this day, and though the warning was real, the man who brought it was far from the universally admired figure that we think we know today. Borrowing from his new book on the Revolutionary icon, titled The Court-Martial of Paul Revere, Michael Greenburg offers several instances in which the so-called hero fell well short of his legend: