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Dawes
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1. dawes, william dawes
American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799)
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Charles Gates. 1865–1951, US financier, diplomat, and statesman, who devised the Dawes Plan for German reparations payments after World War I; vice president of the US (1925–29); Nobel peace prize 1925
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Dawes
see synonyms of dawes American patriot who, along with Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott, rode on the night of April 18, 1775, to warn residents in the towns west of Boston, Massachusetts, that British soldiers were marching on Lexington and Concord.
Vice president of the United States (1925-1929) under Calvin Coolidge. He shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for proposing the Dawes Plan to reduce Germany's World War I reparations.
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