USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Forced to limp into the moonlit night, he receded into obscurity, and Dawes lost his horse, although he managed to scare the soldiers away. So of the three, only Prescott finished the midnight ride.

Detailed explanation-2: -But truth be told, it was really Samuel Prescott who completed the midnight ride. Read on to find out how the three riders carried out their mission on the night of April 18, 1775 to start the American Revolution. Paul Revere would be surprised that he receives sole credit for the midnight ride.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Samuel Prescott was headed home to Concord from Lexington when he encountered Revere and Dawes on horseback around 1 a.m. on April 19. Revere later described their meeting in his 1775 deposition to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and in a 1798 letter to Jeremy Belknap.

Detailed explanation-5: -Samuel Prescott was a physician who lived in Concord, Massachusetts. In the early hours of April 19, 1775, he joined Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn people the British were marching to Concord.