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Paul Revere's Ride: Concord

On he went, mile after mile, intent upon arousing the people. At every house he stopped, rapped furiously on the door, or called out from the roadside, "Get up, and arm yourselves. The Regulars are marching to Concord!" And then he would dash away, leaving the occupants to rise and hastily dress themselves.

The British marched out of Boston about midnight. Just at that hour, Revere rode into Lexington with a great clatter of hoofs upon the streets. He galloped up to the house of the Rev.

Mr. Clarke, where Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two leading Patriots, were asleep. "Don't make so much noise," called out the guard in front of the house, "you will awake the inmates." "Noise!" exclaimed Revere. "You'll have noise enough before long. The Regulars are coming!"