In 1775, Paul Revere began a midnight ride that warned an entire revolution
On a tense night in 1775, a silversmith named Paul Revere set off on a high-stakes ride to alert colonial militias that the British army was moving to seize their weapons.
The American Revolution took a decisive turn on the night of April 18, 1775, when Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride. As British troops crossed the Charles River to seize gunpowder in Concord, Revere and other riders galloped through the Massachusetts countryside to sound the alarm.
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