Paul Revere said “the Regulars are coming!” Not the Redcoats. Today its the Regulators are coming!
Today its the Regulators are coming!
It seems that the Regulators were active in the wild west also.
Nobody really knows what Revere (and more importantly Dawes) actually said. They would have said either regulars or redcoats, or maybe even lobsterbacks. What they wouldn’t have said is “The British are coming” since they still considered themselves British.