USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What did Paul Revere hear and feel when he entered Concord town? He heard the bleating of the flock. He heard the twitter of the birds. He felt the breath of the morning breeze.

Detailed explanation-2: -Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride.

Detailed explanation-3: -Revere also never reached Concord, as the poem inaccurately recounts. Overtaken by the British, the three riders split up and headed in different directions.

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: -He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of British invasion before the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military.