Comparing The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere

What was it like for Paul Revere on the night of the midnight ride? There are similarities and differences between “The Midnight ride of Paul Revere” and the historical account. Revere’s account and the poem both discuss how Revere alerted as many people as he could. The poem talks about how Paul Revere rows the boat alone, but in Revere’s account he talks about how he got two friends to row him across the river. Longfellow used and changed historical facts. In similarity, Revere’s account and the poem both discuss how Revere alerted as many people as he could. In the article Revere’s account the text states,”...I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington ''(par 43). This shows that in the article Revere rode to lexington alarming every house to get ready. Similarly, in the poem the author says,”Ready to ride and spread the alarm”(Longfellow, line 12). This quote explained that Paul Revere rides to houses

In the "Historical account" according to the text, “Where I had kept a boat; two friends rowed me across Charles River, a little to the eastward where the man-o-war Somerset lay”(par 4). This means that two of his friends rowed him across the Charles River. However, in the poem according to the speaker, ”Then he said “Good night!” and with muffled oar/silently rowed to the charlestown shore ” (Longfellow, Lines 15-16). This is important because the text says that Revere rowed but it doesn't say anything about anyone else being there with him so that means that is saying that he rowed alone. Nevertheless, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow didn’t include that two people rowed Revere across the river but we know he does get rowed by two people because Revere said it himself and I think Longfellow did this because it is kind of a small detail that he was rowed by two people and just by