Paul Revere: The Sons Of Liberty

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Paul Revere is mainly known for famously riding to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were marching to arrest them, but there is so much more to this man then first meets the eye. As seen in the book Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer, Paul was a complex man who played very significant roles in the revolution of the United States. Revere joined the Sons of Liberty soon after Britain decided to levy taxes on America and took a leading role in Boston’s campaign for the revolution. Paul Revere’s father, Apollos Rivoire, came over to the colonies from France in 1715 when he was only 12 years old. Like many others, he was a religious refugee and came from a family of French Huguenots. Apollo first went to New England, but then sailed to Boston 6 days before his 13th birthday on November 15, 1715. Apollos Rivoire was a silversmith and in 1722, when …show more content…
The Sons of Liberty is an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. Paul Revere made many contributions to this organization, as said throughout the first chapter of Paul Revere’s Ride. Some of these include, “(quote about engraving some of the bowls- watched the boston resistance come with anger and made an engraving that said insolent parade to describe it)”. During the time in which Paul was a part of this organization, a steady violence was spreading across Boston and he had a front row seat for all of it. Sometimes the British soldiers would instigate the violence, other times an angry townsman. On March 5th, 1770, soldiers fired shots. This came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Paul did yet another carving of this event in which he engraved a drawing by Henry Pelham that, “created an image of British tyranny and american innocence (page