Paul Revere has been given credit for warning the colonists about the British attack on Lexington and Concord. The text portrayes his contributions and adds misconceptions of the British's attack. How? First, there were three riders and the word of the warning was unlikely.
Paul Revere was a French immigrant whose father died when he was 19. Paul had to take on his father's business as a goldsmith. Through buisness connection, Revere joined the other in dumping tea into the Boston Harbor to protest taxes. In April of 1775, Paul Revere was told to warn the population that the British were coming. On his journey he met up with two riders, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, on the same mission. Except those two men have not been credited