The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1775

Postcard from the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1926). Paul Revere (1735-1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Between 9 and 10 p.m. on the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren told Revere and William Dawes that the king's troops were about to embark in boats from Boston bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord. Riding through present-day Somerville, Medford, and Arlington, Revere warned patriots along his route, many of whom set out on horseback to deliver warnings of their own. By the end of the night there were probably as many as 40 riders throughout Middlesex County carrying the news of the army's advance. Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him, The British are coming! His mission depended on secrecy, Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and his own descriptions, was The Regulars are coming out

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