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Paul Revere’s Ride
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Paul Revere’s Ride reconstructs the political intelligence, communication networks and military decisions that led to the fighting at Lexington and Concord. Revere emerges as an important organiser and courier, but Fischer places his journey alongside the work of Joseph Warren, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott, town committees, express riders and militia officers throughout Massachusetts.
The narrative replaces the legend of a lone rider with a collective story of preparation and rapid mobilisation. It also examines General Thomas Gage’s intelligence problems, the march of British regulars and the contingent encounters that turned an attempt to seize military stores into the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.