18 April 1775 – The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Portrait by John Singleton Copley

Paul Revere’s deposition, fair copy, circa 1775

Letter from Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap, circa 1798

Chapter III, “The Midnight Ride of April 18, 1775” in The True Story of Paul Revere, His Midnight Ride, His Arrest and Court-Martial, His Useful Public Services by Charles Ferris Gettemy (1906).

Recreate the Ride

Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories by James Baldwin.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Landlord’s Tale”

Atlantic Monthly January 1861

“The Landlord’s Tale” in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Audio Recording

“What’s in a Name?” by Helen F. More about William Dawes, who also rode that night.

A broadside delivered by Israel Bissell on his ride to spread the news of the British attack and two poems written in the 1950s about his ride.

Music

Song “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Webb Miller

“Me and Paul Revere” by Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin

Art

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Grant Wood (1931).

Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin (1940).

Other Rides of the Revolution

James Jack, who carried the Mecklenburg Declaration, made in response to news of Lexington and Concord, to the Continental Congress – read and listen to the “Meck Dec.”

“Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine”

“The Ride of Tench Tilghman” by Clinton Scollard.

Jack Jouett of Albemarle, the Paul Revere of Virginia (1922), “Jack Jouett’s Ride” (1961), and a newer song, “Jack Jouett’s Ride” (lyrics)

“How Once Upon a Time Caesar Rodney Rode for Freedom” by Katharine Pyle.

And find even more names in this essay on “Heroic horsemen … and women.”

Lesson Plans

Mapping Paul Revere’s Ride

Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution

Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere’s Ride in History and Literature

The Birth of An American Hero in “Paul Revere’s Ride”

18 April – Saint Apollonius

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum (21 April)

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Character Calendar

Pictorial Lives of the Saints

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Medieval Hagiography

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History (book V, chapter XXI)

Art & Architecture

Portail Biblissima

Saints and their Emblems

18 April – Saint Marie of the Incarnation

Quatre traits de la vie de la Bienheureuse Marie de l’Incarnation
esquisse pour les quatre compositions peintes sur les murs de la chapelle dédiée à Marie de l’Incarnation à l’église Saint-Merri à Paris

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

La vie des saints 

La vie des saints

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Catholic Pioneers of America

Art & Architecture

Répertoire dupatrimoine culturel du Québec

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Europeana

Wikimedia Commons

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – image de Notre Dame.