THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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six o’clock in the morning
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six o’clock at night
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noon
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midnight
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Midnight Ride was the alert to the American colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.