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.
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