Brianna’s professor tells her history class that Paul Revere did not complete his ride because he was captured by the Redcoats and a fellow rider named Prescott completed their mission to warn of the British arrival. However, he did complete part of his ride.
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was instructed by the Sons of Liberty to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock about the British troops movements. He accomplished this mission. It was on the way to Concord to warn patriots there; he and his compatriots, were stopped at by the very British soldiers they were warning Adams and Hancock about. Revere was captured and questioned. The British brought him back to Lexington but left him alone when they heard the gunshots from the Battle of Lexington Green. Revere found John Hancock and his family and helped them escape Lexington with a trunk full of incriminating papers.
