History of paul reveres ride painting
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Paul Revere's midnight ride
event of the American Revolution
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History of paul reveres ride painting
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"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" redirects here. For the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, see Paul Revere's Ride. For the painting, see The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting).
Paul Revere's midnight ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, , warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
In the preceding weeks, Patriots in the region gained wind of a planned crackdown on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, then based in Concord, by the British occupational authorities in the colony.
Sons of Liberty members Paul Revere and William Dawes prepared the alert, which began when Robert Newman, the sexton of Boston's Old North Church, used a lantern signal to warn colonists in C