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20th-century depiction of Revere's ride. 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, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – c. 1777) was an American physician and a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.He is best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts, of the impending British army move to capture guns and gunpowder kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Battle Road, formerly known as the Old Concord Road and the Bay Road, is a historic road in Massachusetts, United States.It was formerly part of the main road connecting Lexington, Lincoln and Concord, [2] three of the main towns involved in the American Revolutionary War.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 07:35, 15 March 2021: 1,019 × 426 (242 KB): ΟΥΤΙΣ == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Map |title = {{title|Routes of the British Expedition and the Patriot Messengers|lang=en}} |description = {{label|Q97327423}} {{en|This is a map depiction the outbound routes taken by Patriot riders and British troops in the Battles of Lexington and Concord on ...
Between 9 and 10 pm on the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren told Revere and William Dawes that the British troops were about to embark in boats from Boston bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord. Warren's intelligence suggested that the most likely objectives of the regulars' movements later that night would be the ...
"Paul Revere's Ride" was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1861. "Paul Revere's Ride" is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies.
The engagement which took place at the North Bridge has historically been known as the "Concord Fight" and was a part of the larger Battles of Lexington and Concord. On April 18, 1775, General Thomas Gage, the military Governor of Massachusetts, dispatched a force of roughly 700 British soldiers from Boston to confiscate or destroy military ...
Brooks Hill is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord. It was here, beside the Battle Road, that the British regulars passed on their marches to Concord from Boston, and again on their retreat east. [1] It has also been referred to as Hardy's Hill. [2]