USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere and gave him the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that British soldiers stationed in Boston were about to march into the countryside northwest of the town.

Detailed explanation-2: -Four men and one woman made late night rides, alerting the early Americans of what dangers lay ahead. They were Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, Israel Bissell, William Dawes, and Sybil Ludington.

Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, as you may recall from your high school history class, was to race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops-700 of them-were marching to Concord to arrest them. True, warning Adams and Hancock triggered Revere’s ride from Boston.

Detailed explanation-4: -Paul Revere was a colonial Boston silversmith, industrialist, propagandist and patriot immortalized in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem describing Revere’s midnight ride to warn the colonists about a British attack.

Detailed explanation-5: -Joseph Warren was, undoubtedly, the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill and by dying on that hill that June day in 1775; he became the embodiment of the young nation’s sacrifice.