Paul Revere's Lesson for America

 

 

Imagine you are a colonist in 1770s America.  As the tyranny of King George continues to increase its authoritarian rule over the colonists, there is anger and talk of revolution.  At first, minor skirmishes occur that eventually lead to major incidents such as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party in which your friends are shot and killed by British troops.  Small groups of colonists begin to meet in secret, afraid of British retaliation.  Samuel Adams forms the Sons of Liberty and establishes a network for communication among patriot groups in each of the colonies called the Committees of Correspondence. 

On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren, a noted patriot leader in Boston, got word that the British planned to march to Concord, destroy guns and supplies of the colonists, and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington.  Dr. Warren asked friend and fellow patriot Paul Revere to ride to Lexington and Concord to spread the word.  Paul Revere’s written history of that night tells of a second rider from Boston, William Dawes, who met up with Revere after midnight in Lexington to warn Adams and Hancock.  There, they were joined by a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott, who rode on to Concord, stopping at houses all along the way to prepare to intercept the British forces on Lexington Green and in Concord.

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