"Listen my children and you shall hear
             Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
             On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
             Who remembers that famous day and year.
             He said to his friend, "If the British march
             By land or sea from the town to-night,
             Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
             Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
             And I on the opposite shore will be,
             Through every Middlesex village and farm,
             For the country folk to be up and to arm."
             Paul Revere was perhaps one of the greatest patriots of all time. He thwarted the British Regulars. He rode horseback through many dangers in order to deliver a message to aid the Americans. Revere also was one of the many "Indians" who were part of famous Boston Tea Party.
             This great man was an American patriot who, in 1775, carried news to Lexington of the approach of the British. The primary goal of the British regulars was to apprehend the leaders of the opposition, Sam Adams and John Hancock. Their secondary goal was, to disarm the populace along the way.
             He warned the patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock of their danger and called the citizens of the countryside to arms. Revere confronted 2 British regulars manning a road block as he headed north across Charlestown Neck. The purpose of the British road blocks was to prevent the colonists from communicating with each other outside of their towns. Their primary mission to capture Hancock and Adams, they thought, was top secret. As he turned around, the regulars gave chase and he eluded them. He then continued on to Lexington, to the home of Jonas Clarke where Sam Adams and John Hancock were staying. There, his primary mission was fulfilled when he notified Adams and Hancock that "The Regulars are coming out!" (he never exclaimed, "The British are coming". This would have made no sense at the time since they considered themselves British). These were the inspirations of Henry Wads...