The true story of Paul Revere, his midnight ride, his arrest and court-martial, his useful public services . e Story of Paul Revere were, within two miles. We went into theTavern to git a Trunk of papers, belong-ing to Col. Hancock, before we left theHouse, I saw the ministeral Troops fromthe Chamber window, we made haste, &had to pass thro our Militia, who were ona green behind the meeting house, to thenumber as I supposed, about 50 or 60. Iwent thro them; as I passed I heard thecommanding officer speake to his men tothis purpose, * Lett the troops pass by, &dont molest them, without They beg
The true story of Paul Revere, his midnight ride, his arrest and court-martial, his useful public services . e Story of Paul Revere were, within two miles. We went into theTavern to git a Trunk of papers, belong-ing to Col. Hancock, before we left theHouse, I saw the ministeral Troops fromthe Chamber window, we made haste, &had to pass thro our Militia, who were ona green behind the meeting house, to thenumber as I supposed, about 50 or 60. Iwent thro them; as I passed I heard thecommanding officer speake to his men tothis purpose, * Lett the troops pass by, &dont molest them, without They begin had to go a cross Road, but had not gothalf Gun shot off, when the MinisteralTroops appeared in sight, behinde theMeeting House; they made a short halt,when one gun was fired, I heard the re-port, turned my head, and saw the smoakein front of the Troops, they imeaditly gavea great shout, ran a few paces, and then thewhole fired. I could first distinguish Ireg-ular fireing, which I supposed was the ad-vance guard, and then platoons, at thistime I could not see our Militia for they[118]. The Midnight Bide were covered from me, by a house at thebottom of the Street. ^ This was the battle of Lexington, —fifty provincials exchanging a few shotswith eight hundred of the Kings troops,who then marched on to Concord, only tofind, after a bloody encounter, that the mostvaluable of the stores they had come to seizeor destroy had, thanks to the timely warn-ing of Paul Revere three days before, beenalready removed to places of safety. On the day following these events Reverewas permanently engaged by Dr. Warren,president of the Committee of Safety, as ^ This account is from Reveres manuscript found inthe family papers, and is supposed to have been writtenin 1783, eight years after the events recorded 1798 Revere sent a revised account to Jeremy Belk-nap, secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society,as noted on a preceding page. The revised account isthe one bes
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