Paul Revere and William Dawes leave Boston to alert Massachusetts minutemen that a British army sought to capture Patriot arms and ammunition and arrest many Patriot leaders. Revere and Dawes were later accompanied by Samuel Prescott and successfully alerted every Massachusetts town between Boston and Concord.
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