Minutemen are special troops were created to be ready to fight at a moment’s notice.

In April 18,1775.

During Paul Revere and the other riders to tell people to put up the lanterns the minutemen are getting ready for war.

Now that the Revolutionary War was about to start cause of the lanterns they had problems.

In 1775 colonists were already preparing for war.

Going around the three riders told everybody to put up lanterns cause the British were going to attack.

Here are the locations of where they traveled to Boston, Charlestown ,and Lexington Massachusetts.

The lanterns were hung in a church in Boston so they could tell what way the British would go.

Riders Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott  went on a road that the soldiers would be taking.

In April like 700 British soldiers marched out of Boston.

During Paul Revere keeping an eye on the British he heard that the soldiers were getting ready to march to Concord.

Everybody was getting the lanterns up for the Revolutionary War.