Riders and people

A Boston silversmith, engraver and member of the Sons of Liberty. He was one of the express riders for the Boston Committee of Safety, and he had ridden messages to New York and Philadelphia before 1775.

He did not become famous until 1860, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "Paul Revere's Ride." The poem gets many facts wrong. It is the reason the line "One if by land, and two if by sea" is so well known.

A tanner. Joseph Warren sent him out of Boston by the land route, through the guards on Boston Neck, while Revere rowed across the river. He reached Lexington about half an hour after Revere. On the road to Concord he escaped the patrol by riding up to an empty farmhouse and shouting as if there were men inside.

A young doctor from Concord, riding home late from Lexington. He joined Revere and Dawes on the road. When the patrol stopped them in Lincoln, he jumped his horse over a stone wall and rode through the woods to Concord. He was the only rider of the three to get there. He is thought to have died as a prisoner during the war.

On 26 April 1777, after British troops burned Danbury, Connecticut, 16-year-old Sybil is said to have ridden about 40 miles through the night to call out her father's militia in New York. The story was first printed in 1880, more than a hundred years later, and some historians doubt it. The game gives her the ride anyway.

A post rider. On 19 April 1775 he left Watertown, Massachusetts, with the news of Lexington and Concord and carried it south through Connecticut toward New York and Philadelphia. Stories say he rode 345 miles in four days. Other riders carried the message too, so he probably did not ride every mile himself.

In June 1781, Jouett saw British cavalry under Banastre Tarleton passing a tavern in Virginia. He guessed they were going after Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature in Charlottesville. He rode about 40 miles by back roads overnight and got there first. Jefferson escaped from Monticello.