COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Paul Revere
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Alexander Hamilton
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Sam Adams
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George Washington
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Detailed explanation-1: -He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1861 poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride".
Detailed explanation-2: -On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere and gave him the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that British soldiers stationed in Boston were about to march into the countryside northwest of the town.
Detailed explanation-3: -Longfellow wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride” in 1860, in the midst of a national crisis that would break out into war a year later.
Detailed explanation-4: -On April 18th, 1775, Revere made the most famous ride of his life, to Lexington, to warn patriot leaders in hiding there. During the Revolutionary War, Revere helped fortify Boston against a possible British attack.