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Why did paul revere warn the local militia that the british were coming?
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What did Paul Revere ride signify?
The British Regulars were on the move and Revere's job was to warn the local militia.
What did Paul Revere do in the Revolution war?
The Midnight Ride. Warning the Local militias that the British were coming A fellow patriot hung two lanterns in the tower of the Old North Church to signal to Paul that the British were coming by sea. the saying one if by land two if by sea. that's where its from
How long did Paul Revere stay in jail?
Paul Revere and William Dawes arrived at Lexington during the night. They continued on to Concord in the night and were joined by a local, Dr. Prescott. The 3 were stopped by a British patrol. Dr. Prescott galloped off in the night to take the warning to Concord and Revere was captured. The British army did not arrive in Lexington until just about the time the sun was coming up. Revere was captured sometime before then.
How many colonist fought in Lexington?
The Battle of Lexington saw 700 British troops fighting against 70 Minutemen of the local militia.
Who rode to warn the colonists that the british troops were coming?
The real midnight rider wasn't Paul Revere it was actually 25-year-old mail carrier named Israel Bissel. He rode some 400 miles in 5 days. He alerted local militias that a British Force was marching on Lexington & Concord. Another rider was a 16-year-old girl named Sibyl Ludington, who rode more than 40 miles in 6 hours and called out any army of patriots to halt a British advance at Danbury, Connecticut. Paul Revere's mission was to warn rebel leader Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British soldiers were on the way to arrest them. Paul Revere never saw the signal and he wasn;t the only midnight rider.
Why Did African-Americans patriots fight in the war?
The American Colonists fought the British in the American Revolutionary War because they fought back. When raids occurred in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where houses were burned and women raped, the Americans raised a militia. They attacked the British at Point Pleasant. Then the people of New Hampshire drove out the British for the same reason. Paul Revere tried to get the people of Lexington and Concord worked up about the British Army coming that way. Then fires from burning houses and barns lit the eastern sky. Necked women came screaming begging the local populace to get revenge. The men got their guns and faced the British Army. In Charleston, Mass., the British Army burned the town and abused the women. Men from all around formed a militia and stood up to the militia at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In Virginia, the British burned the town of Norfolk to the ground and again abused the women. A militia from North Carolina arrived and drove off the British. (All this is from the official report to Parliament.)
What happend on Paul Revere's big event?
Paul Rever didn't have a big event, he had his ride, most commonly referred to as the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. During this ride it was Revere's job to notify the local population of the arrival of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
The local militia was better known as the?
Minutemen
What did Paul Revere do for America?
Paul RevereWhat Did Paul Revere Do For USAPaul Revere was a hero of the American Revolutionary War, famous for his "midnight ride" of 1775, during which he sounded the alarm that British forces were moving against the colonists. His fame was galvanized in the late 19th century, thanks to the poem "Paul Revere's Ride," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. An accomplished gold and silversmith, Revere was a Boston artisan who was smack in the middle of pre-revolutionary action. One of his many associations was as a rider for the Committee of Correspondence, and between 1773 and 1775 Revere relayed messages about British troop movements from Boston to Philadelphia, New York and Hartford. When British general Thomas Gage was about to move against revolutionary-minded colonists in Massachusetts, Revere and William Dawes were given the task of alerting the colonist rebels. Revere's efforts that night, his services during the war for independence and his later success as a businessman in Boston and Canton, Massachusetts made him a local hero. Longfellow's poem, published nationally in 1861, made Revere a legendary figure whose story had to be corrected a century later. He never said "the British are coming!" (he called them "regulars"), and he and Dawes (and latecomer patriot, Dr. Samuel Prescott) were captured by the British and detained -- but Dawes and Prescott escaped and got the word out. Nonetheless, Revere is remembered for his active role in events preceding the Revolutionary War, and for his metalworking talent and entrepreneurial savvy.According to an advance plan, a two-lantern signal in Boston's Christ Church (known as the Old North Church) communicated that Gage's forces were advancing by water, not land. Thanks to Longfellow's poem, generations of American schoolchildren later learned the rebels' simple lantern code: "One if by land, and two if by sea"... It has long been suggested -- without concrete proof -- that an informer let the American patriots know of the British army's intentions, and that it may have been Margaret Kemble Gage, the British commander's American-born wife...paul revere warned lexington and so warned Dr.presscott who actually warned concord were all the minutemen were so they could fight. if revere hadnt rode to warn everybody then we would still be under british control.
How did the patriots' knowledge of local geography help them defeat the British?
The British even though they were the superior force they didn't know the landscape. The American militia helped to stop the British by ambushing them and making sure the British couldn't live off the land. In the battle of Yorktown the patriots managed to trap the British on a peninsula.
What did the men do during the Revolutionary War?
They fought in the local militia.
What was on one of the patriots strengths?
The greatest strength was that they were on home turf. They knew the land and the area. The British didn't and this was a great strength.
