Just another reason I hope I don’t have to vote for Palin. I have a direct ancestor who heeded the alarm call of 04/18/1775, and I bet he’s rolling in his grave knowing the best candidate running 235 years later has this take on the birth of our country.
Everyone, press included, remember the poem, not the history. If you go back and research the history, Palin was closer to the truth than the media.
More likely he’s rolling in his grave at the smug ignorance of his descendant.
Here’s a reminder for those of you who actually believe that Palin didn’t get it right:
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-now-all-these-people-will-apologize.html
That is some pathetically weak tea buddy.
Seriously, who’s your candidate?
Sarah Palin is correct. He DID warn the British. The only way the British would not have known, would be if they were all BLIND, DEAF, and DUMB.
They were ringing church bells in each community. There were multiple riders going to different towns. They were yelling at the top of their lungs as they passed homes. And they didn't have the internet, so this took some time.
Perhaps you should read the history or Paul Revere more carefully. It would appear that Sarah has.
According to a history of the ride by David Hackett Fischer in his 1995 book "Paul Revere's Ride,"
after Revere awakened the community in Medford, just north of Boston, Revere rode to the house of Captain Isaac Hall, commander of Medford's minutemen, "who instantly triggered the town's alarm system. A townsman remembered that 'repeated gunshots, the beating of drums and the ringing of bells filled the air."
In the book, Fischer recounts what British troops marching north heard. The "meeting bells"; were "not very loud - nothing like the carillons of ancient English churches,"; Fischer wrote. "These were small, solitary country bells, clanging faintly in the night, but the sounds came from every side - west, north, and even east behind the column"; of troops.
Below is a summary of what Paul Revere wrote of his famous ride, according to letter written in 1798 to Jeremy Belknap, a corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
--- Revere wrote down ---Upon being surrounded by 4 British Officers, Revere said he was questioned by some officers, confirmed he was a messenger, said at what time he left Boston, that British troops had crossed the river and that "there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up."
Sarah mangled the phraseology a bit, but her facts were not in error. That night was much more complex than the grade school version that most people know. She indicated that here familiarity of that night exceeds the simple version.
You don’t need another reason, your mind was made up long ago.
Hmmm, well... I actually have read the Revere AUTOBIOGRAPHY (maybe the only person on here to have so) and I’m sure for two reasons that she is right. Number one: everyone was British before the Revolutionary War. It was the Redcoats vs. The British. Americans didn’t become Americans until after the War. And, Revere without question knew that alerting anyone would alert everyone, since Tories were everywhere including in the countryside. “The British are coming..” is from a poem, not from history books. Palin knows, and is punished for not regurgitating the drivel that most people accept as Gospel.