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  2. Paul Revere's midnight ride - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Paul Revere - Wikipedia

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    Paul Revere (/ r ɪ ˈ v ɪər /; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.) [N 1] – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of ...

  4. Lexington Alarm - Wikipedia

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    Hy Hintermeister (either John Henry or his son Henry), Revere arousing Hancock and Adams. At about 10:00 p.m., the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren asked Paul Revere to contact John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington about the movement of British troops. Warren and Hancock were members of the Committee of safety and Revere had been ...

  5. River-fog cleared just in time for Paul Revere to warn ... - AOL

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    Paul Revere, a patriot of the American Revolution, forever marked the date April 18, 1775, in history with his unique strategy to tackle the British along with his famous horseback ride warning ...

  6. Samuel Prescott - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Battles of Lexington and Concord - Wikipedia

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    During World War I, a film about Paul Revere's ride was seized under the Espionage Act of 1917 for promoting discord between the United States and Britain. [136] A minor controversial interpretation holds that the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774, in what is now West Virginia was the initial military engagement of the Revolutionary ...

  8. 1795 time capsule buried by Paul Revere unearthed in Boston - AOL

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    The year is 1795. Samuel Adams and Paul Revere want to freeze some modern objects in time, so they place a small box in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House. Flash forward to 2014.

  9. Robert Newman (sexton) - Wikipedia

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    Grave at Copp's Hill Burying Ground. Robert Newman (March 20, 1752 – May 26, 1804) was an American sexton at the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts.He is considered a Patriot in the American Revolution for hanging lanterns along with vestryman John Pulling [1] [2] [3] in his church's steeple on April 18, 1775, part of a warning signal devised by Paul Revere during the Battles of ...