The end result was that Adams received 71 electoral votes, one more than required to be elected president. If any two of the three Adams electors in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina had voted with the rest of their states, it would have flipped the election.
Paul Revere rode on horseback to Lexington where he meet up with another rider. He also had lanterns put in the tower of the North Church in Boston using the code 1 if by land 2 if by sea
