 | 1863 - 538 pages
...lanterns were displayed, by the order of Paul Revere, on the night of the 18th of April, 1775, to warn the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord, — whether it was the tower of the existing Christ Church in Salem street, or that of the Old North... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 446 pages
...this old church, forty-two feet from the side walk, bearing the following inscription : THE SIGINAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE, DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE...MARCH OF THE BRITISH TROOPS TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. It is said that Gen. Gage witnessed the burning of Charlestown and the battle of Bunker Hill from this... | |
 | Moses King - 1878 - 358 pages
...A tablet was placed on the front of Christ Church in 1878, bearing the following inscription : — THE SIGNAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE DISPLAYED IN THE...MARCH OF THE BRITISH TROOPS TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. Trinity Church, at the intersection of Huntington Avenue, Boylston and Clarendon Streets, is the finest... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1882 - 790 pages
...shown in Vol. II. p. 509. A tablet was placed on its front Oct. 17, 1878, with this inscription: " The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the...the British troops to Lexington and Concord." The original spire was overthrown in the great gale of 1804; but a new one, built by Charles Bulfinch,... | |
 | Edward MacDonald - 1882 - 68 pages
...forty-two feet above the sidewalk: THE SIGNAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE, DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE OF THI3 CHURCH, APRIL 18, 1775, WARNED THE COUNTRY OF THE...OF THE BRITISH TROOPS TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. The tombs under the church number thirty-three. The first was built in 1732. In one of them were interred... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 454 pages
...this Old church, forty-two feet from the side walk, bearing the following inscription : THE SIGINAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE, DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE...MARCH OF THE BRITISH TROOPS TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. It is said that Gen. Gage witnessed the burning of Charlestown and the battle of Bunker Hill from this... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 500 pages
...know it by heart. Thus it runs : — THE SIGNAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE, DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE OP THIS CHURCH, APRIL 18, 1775, WARNED THE COUNTRY OF THE MARCH OF THE IUUTISH TROOPS TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. This inscription, then, has constituted Christ Church, in... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1884 - 500 pages
...the way, which he does slowly and attentively. Bostonians all know it by heart. Thus it runs : — THE SIGNAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE, DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE OF THIS CHUHCII, Al'RIL 18, 1775, WAUNED TllE COUNTRY OK THE HABCH OF TllE mtlTISH TUOOPS TO I.EXINUTON AND... | |
 | 1902 - 854 pages
...tablet, placed in the wall of the tower by order of the city government in 1878,* tells them that : THE SIGNAL LANTERNS OF PAUL REVERE DISPLAYED IN THE...THE BRITISH TROOPS TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. (*The proposition for the placing of this tablet, when brought forward in the Boston city government, precipitated... | |
 | T. M. Shuttleworth - 1884 - 140 pages
...it:— "The original lanterne of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church " April 17th, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British " Troops to Lexington and Concord:" We drove on to the environs of Boston. Bunker Hill Monument (of which I purchased a view, and of other... | |
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The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord. 
