John Singleton Copley · Public domain · Source
Person1735 – 1818
Paul Revere
Boston silversmith who rode through the night of 18 April 1775 to warn that the British regulars were coming
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
British soldiers quartered in Boston fired into a crowd pelting them with snowballs and insults, killing five people.
- 2
British regulars sent to seize militia arms at Concord exchanged fire with colonial militia at Lexington and Concord — the first fighting of the American Revolutionary War.
People who appear alongside
Samuel Adams1722 – 1803Boston politician and leader of the Sons of Liberty against British taxation; a leader of the American Revolution
John Adams1735 – 1826Massachusetts lawyer and statesman who championed independence in Congress, negotiated the Treaty of Paris and became the second US president (1797–1801)
Themes this person appears in
- The American Revolution1765 – 1789
From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution