Paul Revere was a prosperous Boston silversmith who helped organise an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. On April 18, 1775, two years after the Boston Tea Party incident and one year after the Coercive Acts legislation was passed by Parliament, to which the colonists rejected, he left his North Square home, slipped out of the city in a rowboat, borrowed a horse in Charlestown, and began riding. His mission: to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington that British troops were coming from Boston to arrest them. This led to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Following the American Revolutionary War, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels.
His 1770 house, in Boston's north end.
Kitchen
Bedroom
Paul Revere Bell
Paul Revere statue with Old North Church in the background
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