THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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locating the route Revere needed to travel as described in the historical account
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showing the exact route that Revere took on his midnight ride
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identifying the routes of three riders as described in the selection
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locating the most important cities near the Boston Harbor
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Detailed explanation-1: -A more accurate title would have been “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.” The ride went like this, according to The Paul Revere House: Revere was asked by patriot Joseph Warren to take news to Lexington that British troops were on the march.
Detailed explanation-2: -The route follows Main Street in Charlestown, Broadway and Main Street in Somerville, Main Street and High Street in Medford, Medford Street to Arlington center, and Massachusetts Avenue the rest of the way through Lexington and into Lincoln. Revere’s ride is reenacted annually.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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.