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**Paul Revere** Today on the Boston Gazette Paul Revere joined the Sons Of Liberty. Paul Revere was angry with the Boston Massacre. He hung up engravings of the Massacre to show how angry he was. Paul Revere attacked a fort in Portsmouth and stole gunpowder, cannons, and muskets. media type="custom" key="9233472"

**British Plan** Thomas Gage gathered 800 British soldiers to steel American weapons in Massachusetts and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Doctor Joseph Warren heard about the British plan and told Paul Revere to send the message to Hancock and Adams. Paul rode up to a house in Lexington where Hancock and Adams lived. Paul Revere came to warn them that the British were coming to arrest them.

**Paul Revere Tricks the British**

Paul was captured after warning Hancock and Adams. He wanted to be free so he said to the British their lines were in danger. The British soldiers were scared so they let him go.

**Revolutionary War Begins** 70 minutemen were against 500 British soldiers. This battle was the beginning of the Revolutionary war. No one knew who shot the first shot of the war.