USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Around 11:00pm, the two riders headed out, and thus began the midnight ride of Paul Revere. While Dawes took a southern route to Lexington, Revere took the more dangerous northern road out of Boston through Charlestown.

Detailed explanation-2: -Then, at about 10 p.m. on April 18, 1775, Revere set out in the dark from his North Boston home by horse with William Dawes to reach Adams and Hancock. The two riders met Adams and Hancock in Lexington and enabled the revolutionaries to avoid arrest.

Detailed explanation-3: -On this night in 1775, Paul Revere was instructed by the Sons of Liberty to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Paul Revere Arousing Hancock and Adams.” Wikimedia Commons. Paul Revere began his famous ride from Boston to Concord, around 11:00pm on April 18, 1775, informing the residents and militiamen that the British were on the march. He arrived in Lexington, a town about 10 miles from Boston, around midnight.