Paul Revere Captured!

Paul Revere Captured!. Minute Man National Historical Park. , Along this stretch of the Battle Road, the famous "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" came to an end. While passing through Lexington at around midnight, Paul Revere and William Dawes met Dr. Samuel Prescott of Concord, who was riding home after courting Lydia Mulliken. Prescott agreed to help spread the alarm that "the Regulars were out." , The three men ran into a patrol of ten mounted British officers posted near here to prevent word of the British march from reaching Concord. Revere was captured, Dawes escaped back towards Lexington. Prescott jumped his horse over a stone wall and eluded the British soldiers. , I saw four of them, who rode up to me, with their pistols in their hands, and said G-d d--n you stop, if you go an Inch further, you are a dead Man. immeditly Mr. Prescot came up we attempted to git thro them, but they kept before us, and swore if we did not turn in to that pasture, they would blow our brains out...Mr. Prescot said to me put on. He took to the left, I to the right, towards a Wood...just as I reached it, out started six officers, seised my bridle, put their pistols to my Breast, ordered me to dismount... Paul Revere , ( captions ) , , Revere was questioned, held for a while, but then released by the British officers after they confiscated his horse. Revere walked back to Lexington in time to hear the gunfire at dawn on the town Common. , , Samuel Prescott, not Paul Revere, carried the alarm to Concord and beyond.