‘One if by Land’: White House, Boston celebrates 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride

It’s been 250 years since Paul Revere rode into the nighttime — and now, the Trump medication is riding precocious connected history.

On Friday, the White House released a statesmanlike connection commemorating Revere’s ride, calling the silversmith a patriot whose "bold enactment of defiance acceptable successful question a warfare of independency that changed the people of history."

The White House besides posted a video tribute titled "The Ride That Roused a Nation," offering a cinematic retelling of the 1775 event. 

Meanwhile, successful Boston, Massachusetts, wherever it each began, the day was marked Friday with a reenactment of Revere's historical ride.

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Actor Michael Lepage portrayed Revere, walking from the Paul Revere House to the Old North Church, wherever 2 lanterns were lit to awesome the British advance. After crossing the Charles River, First Sgt. Matthew Johnson of the National Lancers took up the thrust connected horseback, continuing the travel to Lexington.

Massachusetts 250th is conducting assorted American Revolution events passim Boston and Massachusetts. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Revere’s ngo began precocious connected the nighttime of April 18, 1775, erstwhile 2 lanterns lit successful Boston’s Old North Church signaled that British troops were crossing the Charles River by sea.

Revere mounted a borrowed equine and rode into the countryside to alert assemblage militias and pass patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock successful Lexington. Although helium was stopped by British patrols earlier reaching Concord, his connection had already been passed on by chap riders William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott. 

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Thanks to their warning, militia forces were acceptable erstwhile the archetypal shots of the American Revolution rang retired the adjacent greeting connected Lexington Green.

The statesmanlike connection highlighted these facts portion paying tribute to Revere arsenic "a maestro craftsman, a husband, a father, and a arrogant lad of liberty." 

It besides quoted from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s celebrated 1860 poem, "Paul Revere’s Ride," which turned the midnight travel into a nationalist legend. While the existent thrust was portion of a larger effort involving aggregate messengers, Longfellow’s verse — "a outcry of defiance, and not of fear" — helped enshrine Revere’s sanction successful American memory, wherever it remains to this day.

"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" is simply a depiction of the legendary travel of American patriot Paul Revere from Boston to Lexington successful 1775, to bring quality that regular troops were astir to march into the countryside northwest of Boston. From "The Studio", Volume 125. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)

The video released by Trump’s squad underscored that bequest with melodramatic narration, archival imagery, and references to cardinal sites similar Old North Church and North Bridge successful Concord. 

"In the dormant of night, a silversmith became a signal. A awesome became a movement. And that question became America," the voiceover declares, successful the archetypal of galore patriotic events planned arsenic portion of the administration’s "Salute to America 250" initiative.

That effort, launched up of the 250th day of the Declaration of Independence successful 2026, includes coordinated federal, state, and section commemorations aimed astatine spotlighting large moments successful aboriginal American history. 

Paul Revere's gravestone successful Boston, Mass. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Friday’s Revere tribute serves arsenic an unofficial kickoff, tying 1775 to 2025.

Previous presidents person besides marked Revolutionary milestones.

Gerald Ford launched the nation’s Bicentennial by lighting a lantern astatine Old North Church successful 1975, symbolically extending Revere’s connection into the country’s 3rd century. 

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In 2001, George W. Bush commemorated the 225th day of independency with a code successful Philadelphia focused connected the founding ideals of liberty and equality. 

The Trump administration’s connection follows successful that tradition, portion besides preparing for what’s expected to beryllium a high-profile semiquincentennial year.