Paul Revere Grave
42.357583°N 71.062119°W

6/23/2012 3:27:31 PM

Granary Burying Ground

Paul Revere gained fame from his famous midnight ride. The British got word that guns and ammunition were being stored in Concord. On April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren discovered that British soldiers were preparing to board boats to Cambridge where they would disembark for a march to Lexington and Concord. He sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn the patriots that the British were coming. His intelligence also suggested that they were probably going to try and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams who also needed to be warned.

Revere eventually helped Hancock to escape from the British. He was immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Paul Revere’s Ride.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere (December 21, 1734 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride."

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul Revere