This candle is not just a source of warm, flickering light; it's inspired by an extraordinary moment in history - Paul Revere's daring midnight ride. The image on the candle's label is a depiction of the famous ride on horseback, an illustration that has been preserved as a negative in the National Archives' holdings. The scent captures the scent of saddle leather and hay, like Paul Revere may have experienced as he set out on April 18, 1775, to warn the colonists that the British were marching on Concord. 

More than a year before Americans declared their independence, the Revolutionary War erupted with the “shot heard round the world” at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Convinced that Massachusetts was already in outright rebellion and that the other colonies would soon follow, royal officials decided to act. In an attempt to collapse colonial resistance, 700 British soldiers, known then as “Regulars,” marched on the town of Concord to seize provincial military supplies and possibly arrest rebel leaders. Rather than end the rebellion, the events of April 19, 1775, triggered a war between Great Britain and its American colonies that raged for eight years.