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 Subject: American Minute - Jun. 11 - Who sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride?

 American Minute with Bill Federer

 June 11

 He sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride to warn Lexington the
 British were coming.

 A Harvard graduate, he was a successful doctor in Boston, but left
 his career when the British passed the hated Stamp Act.

 With Samuel Adams, he organized the Provincial Congress to protest.

 His name was Dr. Joseph Warren, born JUNE 11, 1741.

 Following the Boston Tea Party, King George III enacted the
 Intolerable Acts of 1774:

 blocking Boston harbor until citizens reimbursed the East India Tea
 Company;

 quartering British soldiers in private homes;

 allowing British officials to be unaccountable for their crimes;

 and replacing Massachusetts' elected officials with royal appointees.


 In response, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves, urging
 Massachusetts to establish a free state, boycott British goods, form
 militias and no longer be loyal to a king who violates their rights.

 Fighting in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a monument marks where Warren
 died.

 Three years earlier Dr. Joseph Warren stated on the anniversary of
 the Boston Massacre:

 "If you perform your part, you must have the strongest confidence
 that the same Almighty Being who protected your pious and venerable
 forefathers...will still be mindful of you."