He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light--
One if by land, and two if by sea--
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

American Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, wrote the poem from which this excerpt is taken in 1860. About which famous Revolutionary War patriot was Longfellow writing?