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Why did Paul Revere and William Dawes ride toward Lexington on the night of Apirl 18, 1775?

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They were warning the British that the Americans were coming to attack.

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To warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British Army, which was beginning a march from Boston to Lexington, ostensibly to arrest Hancock and Adams and seize the weapons stored in Concord.

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