On the dank cloudy night of April 18th, 1775, Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere to make the ride to Lexington to tattle on the British. What Americans generally don’t know is that there was a s…second rider, William Dawes, who also took off for Lexington. What history also also doesn’t tell is that Dawes and Revere crossed the river and met up with their friend Samuel Prescott at a tavern in Charleston, and Paulie Revere may have shotgunned one too many tankards of Boston brew.
With Paulie passed out in his breeches, the colonials still needed to warn of the British. They needed to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock they were in danger of arrest. They needed a new rider.
It just so happened there was another young rebel in the tavern, hunched in the shadows, who would do just about anything for pie.
