On the night of 18 April 1775, Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott rode out from Charlestown across the Massachusetts countryside to warn colonial militias that British troops were advancing toward Lexington and Concord.
Their urgent message—"the regulars are coming"—was a call to arms that helped the American patriots prepare for the opening clashes of the Revolutionary War.
The ride, especially Revere’s, would become a legendary symbol of American resistance and early revolutionary fervour.
