Unsung Hero of The Revolutionary Battle – Dr. Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren was an American doctor who played a major role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually acting as head of state of the advanced Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
Dr. Joseph Warren was an American doctor who played a major role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually acting as head of state of the advanced Massachusetts Provincial Congress.
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He promptly came to be caught up in the fight for freedom from Tyranny. Here are just few things he did:<br />
• He was a member <strong>of</strong> the Boston committee that assembled a report on the following month’s Boston<br />
Massacre.<br />
• Royal authorities tried to place his authors Edes as well as Gill on test for an incendiary newspaper<br />
essay <strong>Warren</strong> created under the pseudonym A True Patriot’<br />
• In 1774, he authored a song, "Free America," which was released in colonial newspapers.<br />
• <strong>Warren</strong> was assigned to the Boston Committee <strong>of</strong> Correspondence. He two times supplied orations<br />
in commemoration <strong>of</strong> the Massacre, the second time in March 1775 while the town was occupied by<br />
military soldiers.<br />
• <strong>Warren</strong> composed the Suffolk Resolves, which were recommended by the Continental Congress to<br />
advocate resistance to Parliament’s Coercive Acts<br />
• He was assigned President <strong>of</strong> the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the highest position in the<br />
revolutionary federal government.<br />
However, he is most known wherefore he did on the night <strong>of</strong> April 18th, 1775. <strong>Warren</strong> got information from a<br />
highly placed British informant that British troops were planing a raid on Concord to destroy munitions kept<br />
there by the colonials. <strong>Warren</strong> additionally discovered that the soldiers intended to arrest Sam Adams as well<br />
as John Hancock.<strong>Warren</strong> sent out William Dawes and Paul Revere on their famous "midnight rides" to warn<br />
Hancock as well as Adams in Lexington concerning the approaching troops. "<strong>The</strong> British are Coming! <strong>The</strong><br />
British are coming!"
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