It's near midnight on April 18th, 1775.

Paul Revere rides from Boston at speed, galloping along the dark roads of rural Massachusetts.

His mission to warn fellow patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock

that British regulars In the early morning, Adams and Hancock slip away as British troops enter the town, seizing weapons and munitions,

inadvertently provoking the revolution they had intended to prevent.

As shots are fired in the early light,

the famous battle at Lexington ensues.

But Adams and Hancock are long gone,

soon able to gather with fellow representatives

from the other colonies in the Second Continental Congress

as together they plot the path to American independence. Hello all, thanks for tuning in to another episode of American History Hit.

I'm your host, Don Wildman.

So glad to have you.

Upon the early political landscape of this nation, there was once a force of nature,

and his name was Samuel Adams.

Sam Adams!

And no, he did not brew beer.

That comes much later and he had nothing to do with it.

But he had everything to do with fomenting the revolutionary spirit that eventually came to a head in a hard fought fight against the British crown.

Born in 1722, died in 1803, his life encompasses the entire revolutionary period, from its unhappy origins

and frustrations with the motherland to open warfare with our sworn enemy.

And finally, to the founding of the nation we are privileged to enjoy today the

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