“What’s funny/sad is that liberals have so dumbed down public education, most Obama voters don’t know or even care who Paul Revere was.”
Not just Obama voters. Stupid me, I thought he was warning the Americans, not the British, with his “The British are coming.”
Indeed. Palin has forced us to check historical sources, instead of the Disneyfied version of history we carry about inside our heads.
Americans Colonials
British Regulars
Revere warned the Colonials. No, it was Prescott.
Revere warned the Regulars (of their peril): correct. Thank you Sarah Palin for the history lesson.
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 asked 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.
Yes, you do seem to be stupid.
Read a real history book, and not whatever some egghead professor is making you read in college.
I guess your education was dumbed down as well. There were no Americans to warn in 1775 because at that time, we were all still British subjects - the Declaration of Independence was over a year away. Further, Paul Revere never warned "The British are coming." That would have sounded silly, for as I pointed out, everybody was British at that time. Instead, Paul Revere warned that "The Regulars are coming" - referring to the redcoats (regulars) led by General Gage.