So many facts, so little time!

You seldom hear of Paul Revere's other great ride. He was placed in charge of artillery for the capture of a half-built British fort in Penobscot Bay. The Rebels assembled an amazingly large fleet of armed ships and transports, some sixty ships in all, and when they arrived off Fort Castine the British commandant was quite ready to surrender but no one bothered to ask. After the Rebels dithered around for two months, a British relief fleet arrived, chased the Rebel ships up the river where most of them were run ashore and burned, or sunk. Paul Revere managed to escape, along with his baggage, and galloped south to Boston. He survived a court martial for cowardice conduct.

Charley Noble, a proud patriot