Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
On April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes were dispatched to spread the news of a British order to seize the patriot's military supplies, the final spark that lit the revolutionary war. The Daily Dose provides microlearning history documentaries like this one delivered to your inbox daily: https://dailydosenow.com We strive for accuracy and unbiased fairness, but if you spot something that doesn’t look right please submit a correction suggestion here: https://forms.gle/UtRUTvgMK3HZsyDJA Learn more: https://dailydosenow.com/midnight-rid... Subscribe for daily emails: https://subscribe.dailydosenow.com/ Become a Patron: / dailydosenow Follow us on social media: Twitter: / thedailydose18 Facebook: / thedailydosenow Click to subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DailyDoseDo... #PaulRevere #MidnightRide #Documentary #History #Biography Today's Daily Dose short history film covers Paul Revere's midnight ride, on the night before the start of the Revolutionary War. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding: Today on The Daily Dose, Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride. In June of 1774, King George the 3rd shut down Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the tea they dumped in protest, followed by Parliament’s proclamation that the colony of Massachusetts was in a state of open rebellion. When colonial physician and Patriot Joseph Warren learned from a friend in the British high command that British troops were ordered to seize the Patriot’s largest cache of military supplies in Concord, late in the evening of April 18th, 1775, two lanterns were lit by John Pulling in the steeple of Boston’s Old North Church—the highest point in the city—later memorialized by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote “One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the Country folk to be up and to arm.” In response, Warren dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to spread the news in advance of a 700-man British column on the move, both men taking separate routes in case one or the other was captured. Revere crossed the Charles River by rowboat, slipping past the British warship HMS Somerset, before riding from Charlestown to Lexington in an effort to spread the news to nearly every household along his route. During his night ride, an additional 40 Patriots joined in Revere’s courageous undertaking, spreading the news to nearly every household in Middlesex County. Dawes, on the other hand, traveled along the Boston Neck peninsula, meeting up in Lexington with Revere and Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock before setting out with a third rider, Samuel Prescott—a doctor who happened to be in Lexington "returning from a lady friend’s house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.” During their ride out to Concord, the trio again warned the Sons of Liberty about the British advance on Lexington and Concord. Before the night was over, Revere was captured by a British patrol, while Dawes was thrown from his horse and forced to walk back to Lexington on foot. The following day, British Redcoats and colonial Minutemen would take up arms at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, marking the beginning of the Revolutionary War, at the same time making the midnight rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes, an important moment in the Patriots’ push for independence. And there you have it, Paul Revere’s midnight ride, today on The Daily Dose.
