Many people believe Paul Revere but it was Samuel Prescott that delivered the message to the colonist in Lexington.
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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.
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Paul Revere saying the British are coming the British are coming!
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.