Paul Revere's Ride: The British Are Coming
Joseph Warren dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn that British troops sailed across the Charles River to seize Adams and Hancock. Revere slipped past HMS Somerset, rode through Somerville and Medford shouting "The Regulars are coming out," and sparked a chain reaction of forty riders alerting Middlesex County militias before dawn. This coordinated warning enabled colonial forces to confront the regulars at Lexington and Concord, igniting the American Revolution.
April 18, 1775
251 years ago
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