As almost every school child in this country once learned, Paul Revere, who was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as “an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of important documents as far away as New York and Philadelphia,” played a key role in the American Revolution.

Around midnight on April 18, 1775, Revere was ordered to ride to Lexington, Mass., and warn the townspeople that British soldiers, who were quartered in Boston, were ready to head their way. “And so through the night went his cry of alarm / To every Middlesex village and farm,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, declaring Revere’s warning “a word that shall echo forevermore!”

On Tuesday, 250 years after that ride, Judge Charles Breyer of the Fe

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