Paul Revere's midnight ride
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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 p
A 20th-century depiction of Revere's ride
Paul Revere landing site marker, Charlestown waterfront
The equestrian statue of Paul Revere in Boston's North End by Cyrus Dallin was unveiled in 1940.
Revere on a 1958 U.S. stamp
Paul Revere
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Paul Revere 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
Paul Revere's midnight ride
…a planned crackdown on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, then based in Concord, by the British 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…
Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, 1768
Revere's dentistry tools
The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5, 1770, a copper engraving by Paul Revere modeled on a drawing by Henry Pelham, 1770.