Two if by sea ...

Dear Editor,

I would like to correct the information that was given in my book review of "Paul Revere: A True Republican" on Jan. 18, 2007, in the Gazette.

One lantern meant that the British would come by land. Two lanterns meant they would come by sea.

Gen. Gage, the British commander in chief, was planning to destroy the munitions stored by the colonists at Concord, Mass. He also wanted to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

He ordered Lieutenant Co. Francis Smith to go to Concord with 700 British soldiers.

Revere learned about the plan and had the signal sent from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church. The poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, stated that the lantern signal was one if by land, and two if by sea.

Dr. Joseph Warren received word that British soldiers were marching to the Boston Common. Boats were observed waiting for them.

Helen Ruth Arnold,

McCook