How on earth can anyone who spends any time at all on this forum be so uninformed?
From Paul Revere's personal account of his famous ride:
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Letter from Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap, circa 1798
"I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back, and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from, & what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he as- ked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing 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.
He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out."
Thanks for proving the mission of his ride, i.e., to warn the colonists/patriots/minutemen that the British were coming. That he later told the British soldiers who caught him and held him at gunpoint what he had done, does not in anyway imply that his mission was to warn the British that they weren’t going to take away our guns or our freedom. That’s like saying that Pearl Harbor was a wake up call to the Japanese, or 9/11 a warning to al Quaeda.