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At the age of 12 Paul Revere left school to become a silversmith apprentice.
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He fought during the Seven Year War, also called the French Indian War. He severed as a lieutenant in an artillery regiment.
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His father Apollos Rivoire died, Paul takes over his father's silversmith shop and becomes responsible for his large family.
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In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who call themselves "The Loyal Nine", began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act.
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The English merchant ship Dartmouth arrives in Boston Harbor, carrying tea under terms of the controversial British law, The Tea Act. In protest Revere leads a group in destroying the tea bu throwing it into the harbor.
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The 1st Patriot intelligence network on record was a secret group in Boston known as "The Mechanics".The group apparently grew out of the old sons of liberty organization that had successfully opposed the hated Stamp Act.
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He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 18-19 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battle of Lexington and Concord.
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Paul Revere was promoted to past of a major of infantry and later he became lieutenant colonel of artillery.
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Paul Revere unwittingly became the first person to practice forensic dentistry in United States.
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Paul Revere had made so many advancements in metalwork that he started a iron and brass foundry in Boston.
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