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Paul Revere’s legacy is known well in American history, and his midnight right has been enshrined in poetry and legend. Revere died on May 10, 1818 at the age of 83 at his home in Boston. He was buried at the Granary Burying Ground.
On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere and gave him the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that British soldiers stationed in Boston were about to march into the countryside northwest of the town.
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
