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A silversmith by trade, Paul Revere warned the countryside on April 18, 1775, as set down in Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride" (1861). He and his fellow riders William Dawes and Samuel Prescott were stopped, but Dawes and Prescott escaped. As Revere was brought toward Lexington, the sound of gunfire caused his three British captors to take his horse and head for the battle, and so he also escaped. He later helped John Hancock and his family to flee Lexington.

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