The Midnight ride of Paul Revere | April 18th, 1775

On the night of April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere was instructed by the Sons of Liberty to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming. On his way to Lexington, Revere raised the alarm, stopping at each house. As he approached the house where Adams and Hancock were staying, a sentry asked that he not make so much noise. “Noise!” said Revere, “You’ll have noise enough before long. The regulars are coming out!”
Following Lexington, Revere’s next stop that late night was Concord, Massachusetts, a hotbed of the resistance and the suspected location of the British troops’ second attack. But Revere, Dawes and a third rider named Samuel Prescott were captured by the British en route, and only Prescott reached Concord.
Revere was soon released, but he had already helped give the colonial militia a key advantage by alerting them to the impending attack by the British. The Battles of Lexington and Concord would spark the Revolutionary War.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 986-word poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” published on the eve of the Civil War, tells how a lantern, displayed in the steeple of Boston’s Christ Church that evening, warned the militia men of the approach of the British troops. Longfellow began writing the poem the next day. The signal lanterns were immortalized in his phrase, "One, if by land, and two, if by sea."

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