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Many people believe Paul Revere but it was Samuel Prescott that delivered the message to the colonist in Lexington.
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Who was the colonist who warned the british were coming by horseback?
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.
What were the initial goals of the colonists in 1775?
THE BRITISH TROOPS SENT
Where did the British soldiers and American colonists clash in April 1775?
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Who barges into the Meeker Tavern in April 1775 and with what news?
Paul Revere saying the British are coming the British are coming!
What did Paul Revere do that was so big?
He is best known as a pre Revolutionary War courier, for his ride from Boston to Concord, on April 18, 1775, to caution the colonists that the British were coming.
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