Paul Revere
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History, Economics
- Subcategories: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Trade, Commerce, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Industry, Manufacturing, Factories
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American Early National History (1789-1815)
Article abstract: American Revolutionary patriot and propagandist, Revere was a prominent silversmith, engraver, and industrialist.
Early Life
Paul Revere was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third of twelve children born to Paul Revere and his wife, Deborah Hichborn Revere. Revere’s father, a French Huguenot who at an early age had gone to live with an uncle on the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel, anglicized his name from Apollos De Revoire. After arriving in Boston in 1715, the thirteen-year-old Revere was apprenticed as a silversmith; he...
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