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he told the colonist the British were coming and he also made tools for the war
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They wanted religious freedom, such as the Pilgrims coming over on the Mayflower.
Paul Revere was a citizen of the British colony of Massachusetts. He was born in America but was, at least until the American Revolution technically a British subject as were all colonists at the time. After the war, Revere like all colonist who chose to remain in America, was an American. His cry thought every Middlesex town that "The British are coming!" referred to the British regulars who were marching toward Lexington and Concord, and in fact according to Revere's memoirs, his exact phrase was "The regulars are coming out!" He would not have said that the British were coming because in his mind he was British as well.
Paul Revere was a patriot. He was in the Sons of Liberty and was a Federalist Although he is famous for his midnight ride, he did actually say "The British are coming". Then he was arrested by British soldiers while he was riding to lexington, but a patriot he was, riding with delivered the message.
To destroy the stock pile weapons the colonist had put away for battle.
Paul Revere rode into Lexington to warn the colonists. That's where the saying "The British are coming" comes from.
Paul Revere became famous when he warned the colonist that the British were coming, on April 18, 1779
Dr. Samuel Prescott was one of the Massachusetts Patriots who made the midnight ride with Revere and Dawes to alert the Colonist that the British were coming. there was additional people who were in the midnight ride. Dawes ran away and got lost in the woods, revere got captured by the british, but prescott jumped his horse over a stone wall and escaped.
Many people believe Paul revere but it was Samuel Prescott that delivered the message to the colonist in Lexington.
April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and other colonists learned of the British plan to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams and to raid the colonists military supplies, so they rode ahead and alerted the minutemen.