Revere's midnight ride, forgotten items included
On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere arranged for two lanterns to be hung in Boston's Old North Church to signal that the British were moving by water. He then rowed to Charlestown and rode toward Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Fritz's telling includes his mishaps: he forgot the cloth to muffle his oars and the spurs for his boots, and he was captured by a British patrol before reaching Concord, lost his horse, and walked back to Lexington, where he helped carry Hancock's trunk of papers to safety as the fighting began.