The British are coming...

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Posted by 46er (73.29.197.155) on 20:14:42 04/18/15

"On the evening of April 18, 1775, volunteer couriers Paul Revere and William Dawes, set off from Boston toward Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that after months of tension and unrest, the British were en route to disarm the rebels. Worried about their possible interception of the warning, the colonists also hung two lanterns in the bell tower of Boston s Christ Church a prearranged signal meaning that the Redcoats were arriving by sea. The events that followed from the Battles of Lexington and Concord the next day to Henry Wads­worth Longfellow s epic poem Paul Revere s Ride a century later helped cement that flash of lantern light and the cry The British are coming! as the stuff of patriotic legend." - Yankee Magazine


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