USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Paul Revere never shouted the legendary phrase later attributed to him (“The British are coming!”) as he passed from town to town. The operation was meant to be conducted as discreetly as possible since scores of British troops were hiding out in the Massachusetts countryside.

Detailed explanation-2: -On April 18, 1775 Paul Revere was asked to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British troops were coming to arrest them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paul Revere didn’t ride through the streets of Concord hollering a warning. He didn’t even make it to Concord at all. Paul Revere, an activist in the Patriot movement, rode that night with two other men, Samuel Prescott and William Dawes. Only one of them succeeded in reaching Concord to warn of the British invasion.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -When his associates learned the British were moving troops out of Boston and planned to arrest revolutionary leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington, Massachusetts, Revere was tasked with tipping them off to help them avoid arrest.