ing was going to happen. A move by the British was truly inevitable. Paul Revere was to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock, both staying with the Reverend Jonas Clark in Lexington, of the probable British invasion. Not only was Revere to notify Adams and Hancock of a possible attack, he was also to direct the two patriots to hide the Concord weapons supply. On his way back to Boston, Paul Revere stopped in Charlestown to seek out some of the patriots and militiaman to set up a signal plan to relay the path of the British attack to Revere and other messengers. He found Colonel William Conant, a patriot and militiaman of the area. Revere and Contant decided on using lanterns to relay the signal to the messengers using the lanterns. Once the order was given, Paul Revere made his way back across Boston to the Cambridge shores to await the signal. During his ride across the bay, he glided right under the H.M.S. Somerset. On the shores of Cambridge he awaited his horse, an animal that belonged to Deacon Larkin. The British made their first move on the eighteenth around two o’clock in the morning a move that was expected. The troops were shaken by their commanding officers that morning instead of going through the usual wake up call in order to keep suspicion low and noise to a minimum. Early in the morning, companies of half-awake British soldiers marched through Boston Common and the Park Square towards the waterfront. The British troops marched in complete silence through the town as they approached the harbor and silenced any noise that might disturb or awake anybody in the area. They strangled dogs that awoke in order to end the barking. In the morning, the British reached the waterfront and Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown. William Dawes started over Boston Neck with the same destination. On April eighteenth, Paul Revere was awakened at his North Square home and he headed, without a sound, for the nort...
