After darkness fell on April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to fulfill a dangerous but crucial mission:  to alert American colonists of advancing British troops, which would seek to crush their nascent revolt.  

Revere was not the only rider that night, and indeed, he had completed at least eighteen previous rides throughout New England, disseminating intelligence about British movements.  But this ride was like no other, and its consequences in the months and years to come--as the American Revolution morphed from isolated skirmishes to a full-fledged war--became one of our founding legends.

In The Ride, Kostya Kennedy reveals Revere's ride to be more complex than it is usually portrayed--a loosely coordinated series of rides by numerous men, capture by British forces, near-disaster, and finally success.  While Revere was central to the ride and its plotting, Kennedy portrays the other colonial leaders--Samuel Adams, John Hancock, William Dawes, Dr. Joseph Warren, and others---who helped to set in motion the events that would lead to America's independece.*

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*From the book jacket