I listened to what she said it it sure sounded dumb to me. The train-wreck candidate.
You, the history teacher? And you think Bachmann, who did botch her history, is smarter than Palin?
Excerpt from..... Paul Revere - His Ride & Associations with Freemasonry
Revere confronted 2 British regulars manning a road block as he headed north across Charlestown Neck. As he turned around, the regulars gave chase and he eluded them. He then continued on to Lexington, to the home of Jonas Clarke where Sam Adams and John Hancock were staying. There, his primary mission was fulfilled when he notified Adams and Hancock that "The Regulars are coming out!" (he never exclaimed, "The British are coming". This would have made no sense at the time since they considered themselves British).
Revere and Dawes then headed for Concord and came across Doctor Prescott who then joined them. They decided to alarm every house along the way.
Just outside of the town of Lincoln, they were confronted by 4 Regulars at another road block. They tried unsuccessfully to run their horses through them. Prescott, who was familiar with the terrain, jumped a stone wall and escaped. Revere and Dawes tried to escape and shortly into the chase they were confronted by 6 more regulars on horseback. Revere was surrounded and taken prisoner. Dawes got away as they were taking Revere into custody. The British officers began to interrogate Revere, whereupon Revere astonished his captors by telling them more than they even knew about their own mission. (HA!) He also told them that he had been warning the countryside of the British plan and that their lives were at risk if they remained in the vicinity of Lexington because there would soon be 500 men there ready to fight.
Revere, of course, was bluffing.
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The only thing Palin got wrong was she didn't point out that Revere was bluffing.
http://bessel.org/revere.htm
I asked my brother in Boston about how her stop there was covered, and he hadn’t even *heard* about it the next day. He was surprised Sarah had been in town. He said that the news coverage had essentially been nothing but the tornado damage, tornado prep, etc - and a little “bit- o’-Romney.” (We never liked the candy much, either.)