History of Brown Beauty

Brown Beauty is the horse immortalized along with Paul Revere for their "Midnight Ride" at the start of the American Revolution.

On the night of April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Boston to Lexington to warn fellow patriots, including John Hancock and Samuel Adams, about the British army's planned march to Lexington. The warning delivered by Revere and his fellow messengers allowed the patriot militia to repel the British army in Concord and force them back to Boston.

An excerpt from the poem Paul Revere's Ride:

  A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
  A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
  And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
  Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet:
  That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
  The fate of a nation was riding that night;
  And the spark struck out by that steed, in [her] flight
  Kindled the land into flame with its heat.

   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow