Paul Revere

Overview

(Source: 2nd Grade Bio Cards)

PAUL REVERE was trained by his father to be a silversmith. When he was twenty-one, Paul volunteered as a soldier to fight the French during the French and Indian War. Preceding the American Revolution, Revere was a member of the “Sons of Liberty,” a group of colonists who were anti - British. He took part in the Boston Tea Party by helping dump tea into Boston Harbor to protest high British taxes. During the American Revolution, Paul Revere became one of the colonists’ most trusted and dependable messengers. When his spies found out British troops were going to march to Lexington and Concord, Revere boldly made a dangerous ride. He warned almost every house between Charleston and Lexington that troops were coming. As he continued to Concord, Paul Revere was captured, but the British eventually let him go.