Framed Paul Revere Rousing the Inhabitants Along the Road to Lexington by Frederick Coffay Yohn

Paul Revere Rousing the Inhabitants Along the Road to Lexington by Frederick Coffay Yohn captures a famous moment from Paul Revere’s midnight ride on April 18, 1775. Paul Revere’s ride from Boston to Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775, was a critical moment that helped spark the American Revolution. As a member of the Sons of Liberty, Revere was tasked by Dr. Joseph Warren to warn Patriot leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington that British troops were marching from Boston to arrest them and seize colonial munitions in Concord. Around 10 p.m., after arranging for two lanterns to be hung in the Old North Church steeple (signaling the British were crossing the Charles River by boat), Revere was rowed across to Charlestown. He borrowed a horse and set off, riding through towns like Medford and Menotomy (now Arlington) to Lexington, alerting militia and inhabitants along the way. He stopped at key homes, waking captains of minutemen and spreading the alarm, which rippled outward as others joined the effort. Revere reached Lexington around midnight, warned Hancock and Adams, and then joined William Dawes (who’d taken a different route) and Samuel Prescott to head for Concord. A British patrol intercepted them in Lincoln; Revere was captured but later released, while Prescott reached Concord to continue the warning. This ride triggered the “alarm and muster” system, mobilizing minutemen who clashed with British forces the next day at Lexington and Concord—the first battles of the Revolution.