Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

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Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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Tensions in Boston, Massachusetts had been
building for months. The colonists had grown more
and more unhappy about the series of taxes passed
by Parliament Sugar Act,
Currency Act Quartering Act Stamp
Act Townshend Act Tea Act- led
to the Boston Tea Party
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The primary goal of the Brittish regulars was to
apprehend the leaders of the opposition, Sam
Adams and John Hancock. (leaders in the revolt)
John Hancock
Sam Adams
There secondary goal was, to take the guns away
from the colonist.
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Paul Revere
Silversmith Son of Liberty Boston Tea
Party Organized an Intelligence and alarm system
that kept track of British Troops Official
courier for the the Massachusetts Committee of
Correspondence
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On the night of April 18, 1775, silversmith Paul
Revere left his small wooden home in Boston's
North End. That home is still standing at 19
North Square and is a national historic
landmark.
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Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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Listen my children and you shall hearOf the
midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth
of April, in Seventy-five Hardly a man is now
aliveWho remembers that famous day and year. He
said to his friend, "If the British marchBy land
or sea from the town to-night,Hang a lantern
aloft in the belfry archOf the North Church
tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by seaAnd I on the
opposite shore will be,Ready to ride and spread
the alarmThrough every Middlesex village and
farm,For the country folk to be up and to arm."
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Old North Church
The church sexton, Robert Newman, climbed the
steeple and held high two lanterns as a signal
for Paul Revere that the British were marching to
Lexington and Concord by sea and not by land.
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. Revere's two friends rowed him to Charlestown
They used pieces of cloth to muffle the sound of
their oars so the British Warships wouldnt hear
them..
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This lantern is at the Concord Museum in Concord,
Massachusetts. Revere called his signal lights
"lanthorns". This one hung in the steeple of
Christ Church, the Old North Church, Boston's
tallest building, as a signal
One if by land
Two if by Sea
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1100 Paul Revere arrives in Charlestown at night
and borrows a horse from a friend.
1115The moon shone bright. I had got almost over
Charlestown Common... when I saw two Officers on
Horseback... I was near enough to see their
Holsters cockades... I turned my horse short
about, and rid upon a full gallop for Mistick
Road." -P. Revere
Paul Revere spots two British officers on
horseback during his midnight ride.
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Paul rides along Mystic Road, alarming all the
households he sees. "The regulars are
out! 1130 PM As Paul rides through Medford,
he crosses an old plank bridge over the Mystic.
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1200 Midnight Revere arrives in Lexington.
Warns Sam Adams and John Hancock Billy Dawes
and Dr. Prescott join Revere and continue
to Concord.
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100 A.M. Captured
Revere left Lexington with Billy Dawes and Dr.
Prescott to warn the militia at Concord. The
three were stopped by a British patrol Revere
was taken prisoner. Billy Dawes lost his horse,
but escaped on foot. Dr. Prescott jumped his
horse over a stone wall and made it to Concord.
 
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I saw four of them, who rode up to me, with their
pistols in their hands, said G-d d-n you stop. If
you go an Inch further, you are a dead Man...we
attempted to git thro them, but they kept before
us, and swore if we did not turn in to that
pasture, they would blow our brains out . . .
(from a statement made by Paul Revere)
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Revere was released without his horse and
returned to Lexington. At Lexington he joined
Adams and Hancock and fled to safety in
Burlington. Revere returned to rescue valuable
papers in Hancock's trunk. When the British
arrived on April 19, the minutemen were waiting
for them.
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• Through all our history, to the last,In the hour
  of darkness and peril and need,The people will
  waken and listen to hearThe hurrying hoof-beats
  of that steed,And the midnight message of Paul
  Revere.

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