Read Paul Revere's Ride Online
Authors: David Hackett Fischer
Tags: #General, #Biography & Autobiography, #History, #United States, #Historical, #Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), #Art, #Painting, #Techniques
choice of landing place,
115
–16
Smith: holds troops in Cambridge
detaches Pitcairn at Menotomy,
127
Pitcairn: puts Adair in van,
127
orders troops to load before entering Lexington,
187
loses control of column,
187
–88
Adair: decides to turn right at Lexington,
189
–190
circumstances of first shot,
196
–94
Pitcairn loses control of men at Lexington,
196
–98
Smith: recovers control at Lexington
199
decides to continue march,
199
Laurie, decisions at North Bridge,
211
–12
Smith, delay in reinforcing Laurie,
263
Gage: obsession with secrecy delays march of Percy,
233
–35
Percy decides to march without ammunition wagons,
242
–43
choice of tactics in retreat,
245
,
413
choice of Kent Lane route,
259
,
414
Gage, loses battle for public opinion,
276
–79
inevitability, as an act of choice,
65
–77
AMERICAN
: Mass. Provincial Congress, decides to establish alarm and muster system,
51
,
152
Revere, Paul, “spirit”
and “means”
of resistance
48
organizes intelligence gathering,
51
organizes alarm system,
87
–89,
99
,
148
advance plans for lantern signals
89
,
99
advance plans for escape from Boston by boat,
103
–5
Warren, Joseph, decides to trigger alarm system,
94
–96
Revere, Paul, designs and executes failsafe alarm procedures,
88
,
98
–99,
128
–29
Adams, Samuel, and policy of “putting
enemy in the wrong.”
79
Revere helps concert this policy,
210
Parker executes policy at Lexington,
188
–89,
210
,
400
–401
Barrett executes policy at Concord,
210
White, Ammi, murder of wounded Regular changes tone of engagement,
215
–18,
406
–7
Heath: and choice of American tactics,
247
–50
command and control,
250
–55
Committee of Safety, wins contest for
public opinion,
269
–76
Revere assists in this process,
267
–69
OTHER CONTINGENCIES
: moon,
312
tides,
313
Cook, Samuel,
320
Coolidge, Calvin,
337
Cooper, Benjamin,
257
Cooper, Rachel,
257
Cooper, Samuel,
144
,
168
,
303
,
376
Copley, John Singleton,
2
–4,
14
,
35
,
37
,
95
,
176
,
177
,
178
,
293
Cornwall,
76
Cotins, Lt. Henry,
310
Counter-intelligence, British,
89
,
104
,
273
Cox, Joseph,
286
Cox, Lt. Thomas,
322
Craig, Capt. Thomas Henry,
323
Crandall, Ralph,
424
Crane, John,
303
Craven, Catherine,
424
Cressy, Lee,
424
Cressy, Mary,
424
Cromwell’s Head Tavern, Boston,
20
,
302
,
377
,
382
Crosbie, Capt. William,
323
Crossley, Jack,
343
“Cuckolds Come Dig.”
71
Cudworth, Capt. Nathaniel,
222
,
409
Culloden, battle of,
34
Cumine, Lt. George,
324
Cumming, Thomas,
398
Curtis, Judith M.,
423
Cutler, Timothy,
12
Cutter, Ammi,
412
Dabney, Virginius,
343
Daland, Benjamin,
63
Dana, Elizabeth Ellery,
336
Danforth, Susan,
423
Dann, John,
423
Danvers, Mass.,
63
,
64
,
140
,
163
,
172
,
256
,
266
,
320
Dartmouth, Earl of,
76
–78,
80
,
86
,
264
Daughters of the American Revolution,
334
Davis, Caleb,
303
Davis, Edward,
303
Davis, Capt. Isaac,
145
,
155
,
165
,
166
,
209
,
212
,
320
,
406
Davis, Maj. Robert,
303
Davis, William,
303
Davison, Capt. William,
323
Dawes, Charles,
337
Dawes, William,
97
,
129
,
130
,
131
,
151
,
180
,
287
,
332
,
336
,
337
,
386
,
392
,
395
midnight ride,
97
–98;
110
–12;
141
–43,
393
historians,
394
illus.,
98
Dawson, Lt. George,
310
De Berniere, Ens. Henry,
81
,
83
,
84
,
208
,
222
,
231
,
262
,
263
,
290
,
294
De Lancey, Capt. Oliver,
75
,
80
,
308
De Witt, William,
340
Debunkers,
336
H. L. Mencken,
338
Helen More,
338
American Mercury,
338
Boston Globe,
337
errors of,
337
debunk Paul Revere’s horse,
337
,
389
compared with iconoclasts,
340
Dedham, Mass.,
147
,
156
,
158
,
311
,
320
Deland, Benjamin,
320
Democracy,
39
Depositions, American on battle,
275
Derby, Capt. John,
275
Deshon, Moses,
303
Despard, Lt. Andrew,
324
Deutsch, Sanna,
423
Devens, Richard,
90
,
105
,
106
,
130
,
141
,
330
,
389
Devon,
76
Diamond, William,
181
,
188
,
319
,
398
Disease: camp fever,
269
,
286
,
287
canker rash,
166
malignant spotted fever,
66
throat distemper,
66
tuberculosis,
149
yellow fever,
376
Disorders, Britain and Ireland,
77
Dodge, William,
391
Dodge, William III,
320
Dolbear, Edward,
303
Donahue, Brian,
424
Donkin, Capt. Robert,
323
Doolittle, Amos,
418
Dorchester Heights,
282
Dorr, Ebenezer,
388
Douglass, Joseph,
298
Dover, Mass.,
121
Dover, N.H.,
311
Dover Farms,
147
Downer, Eliphalet,
256
Doyle, Capt. Peter,
303
Dracut, Mass.,
139
Drummers,
69
,
181
,
199
,
298
,
399
,
403
Drummey, Peter,
424
Dumfries, Va.,
325
Dunkerly, Joseph,
18
Dunmore, Gov. Lord (Va.),
277
Dunster, Henry,
396
Durham, N.H.,
55
Dyert, John,
375
Eames, Capt. Jesse,
222
East Cambridge, Mass.,
124
East Guilford, Conn.,
325
East Sudbury, Mass.,
83
,
159
,
160
see also
Sudbury
Wayland
Eastman, Jane,
423
Eaton, Capt. Joseph,
303
Eaton, Noah,
230
Eayres, Thomas Stephens,
297
Eckley,
304
Edenton, N.C.,
325
Edes, John,
20
Edes, Peter,
273
Edinburgh, University of,
298
Edwards, Sally,
297
Eight Bell Church,
see
Old North Church
Elizabeth, N.J.,
325
Elizabeth I,
32
Elm Brook,
407
Ely, Carol,
424
Emerson, Rev. William,
168
,
203
–5,
213
,
218
,
273
,
286
,
289
,
394
,
404
Emmes, Samuel,
304
England, Lt. Pook,
323
England, Capt. Richard,
323
English Bill of Rights,
21
English opposition ideology, xix Estabrook, Prince,
286
,
320
Etheridge, William,
304
Eton,
80
Everett, Israel,
320
Everett, Mass.,
331
Exeter, N.H.,
27
Fadree, Isannah,
300
Fairbanks, Joseph,
423
Fairfield, Conn.,
325
Fallick, Bernice H.,
423
Falmouth, Me.,
284
Fanueil Hall,
41
Farmer, Nathaniel,
320
Farny, Michael,
424
Farrington, Capt. Anthony,
308
Faulkner, Maj. Francis,
145
,
250
Felt, Joseph,
320
Fenno, Samuel,
304
Fenwick, Capt. Lt. Robert,
308
Ferrell, Capt. Ambrose,
304
Fessenden, Thomas,
196
Field, Capt. Joseph,
304
Films: of midnight ride, Lexington, Concord,
333
,
336
,
407
,
419
,
420
Finney, Lt. William,
324
Firearms, range of,
407
see also
Musketry
British army, arms and equipment
Militia, arms and equipment
Fischer, Anne Whitmore,
424
Fischer, John Anderson,
424
Fischer, John Henry,
424
Fischer, Judith,
424
Fischer, Kate,
424
Fischer, Miles Pennington,
424
Fischer, Norma,
424
Fischer, Susanna,
424
Fischer, William Pennington,
424
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield,
339
Fisher, Keri,
424
Fiske Farm,
230
Fiske Hill, fight at,
221
,
229
,
231
,
410
Fitch Tavern,
227
Fitzgerald, Capt. Edward,
323
Flagg, Bartholemew,
375
Flags,
162