This, from the guide’s reding: The messengers cried out the alarm, awakening every house, warning of the British column making its way towards Lexington. In the rider’s wake there erupted the peeling of church bells, the beating of drums and the roar of gun shots - all announcing the danger and calling the local militias to action.
I am still a little confused. was it a guide at the north church. Do you live in Boston? Is that how you know this? Or do you have a link to that quote?
I like the idea of the bells, drums and gunfire as a method of alert even to this day!
Radio is risky.
homing pigeons are better