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President of the Continental Congress who was staying at the Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775. Revere rode to warn him and Samuel Adams of the approaching British.

Boston artisan who became the Revolution's most famous messenger, riding to warn Lexington and Concord of the British approach on April 18, 1775.

The organizer who built the resistance movement in Boston through town meetings, correspondence committees, and strategic confrontations with British authority.

Commander of the Lexington militia who ordered his men to stand on Lexington Green. Parker, 45 and suffering from tuberculosis, made the fateful decision to face the British.

Cousin of Captain John Parker, Jonas was among the eight killed on Lexington Green. Wounded and on his knees, he was reportedly bayoneted while trying to reload.

John Hancock's fiancée was present at the Hancock-Clarke House on the night of the alarm. She witnessed the flight to safety and later married Hancock.

Mortally wounded on Lexington Green, Harrington crawled across the road to die at his wife's feet on their doorstep—within sight of his home.

An enslaved man who fought on Lexington Green and was wounded. Estabrook represents the complex position of Black Americans in the Revolution.