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They interrogated him and confiscated his horse. Horseless, he wandered around a cemetery until he came to the house where Samuel Adams and John Hanncok were staying (in Rev. Clarke's house). So, they didn't just let him walk away freely.

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Did the British People Kill Paul Revere?

No British soldiers surrounded him and stole his horse. they let Paul go. he did not complete his mission and returned home


Who captured Paul Revere when he was trying to warn his people then let him go without the horse?

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he never went to jail, he was merely kept for the night of his ride, in a camp with British soldiers, who let him go in the morning.


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during the midnight ride, Paul revere ran into trouble, trouble being the British. some British watchmen are posted in some places, or are patrolling some of Massachusetts. until, Prescott decided to help Dawes and Paul, they were surrounded by British soldier's, and Prescott agreed to go warn the rest of the patriotic public people.


Paul Revere's family life?

well Paul's father died when he was a kid so he and his brothers had to take up silversmithing. They were in a small-house-big-family scenario.


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What happened to Paul Revere when he got captured?

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