The think cerca article, "Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and Gunpowder and The Myth of Paul Revere's Ride," the author talks about Paul Revere and his legend that was actually fictional. On the evening before the Revolutionary War, Paul Revere was sent to Lexington by Dr. Joseph Warren to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British plans. Longfellow's poem about Paul Revere immortalized the great achievements of only one person while omitting that there were many more colonists who rode to warn the o Henry Longfellow's opinion shaped the myth of Paul Revere's ride. Longfellow wrote down his own opinion and publicized it. His opinion then spread everywhere and people started believing it then telling everyone they knew about it.
