Paul Revere did not ride to warn the British of anything. He rode to tell Hancock and Adams that there were warrants out for their arrest, and to tell the guys who ran the “Early Warning System” - an already-arranged bell-signal - to start it up. He also rode to tell the residents of Middlesex County that there was a regiment of Redcoats coming to seize the colonial armory at Concord.
Revere didn’t want the British to know ANYTHING about it at all - because the Middlesex Men wanted to set up, essentially, an ambush for them as they approached Concord.
Sarah punted like a kid who’s been called on in class and didn’t know the answer, so tries to bluff it out with a few dimly remembered facts and a confident attitude. What makes it doubly annoying to New Englanders is that she’d *just finished the Walk.* Didn’t she actually pay attention to anything? She billed this tour as a history lesson. Instead it seems to have been turned into a series of photo-ops at historic sites.
I don’t know if you have read any of the documents at the LINKS some posters have provided, or read the posts of those who have provided the exact words, and actions of Paul Revere and his crew, but Sarah got it correct. It is well documented.
Here’s what I posted below, and I don’t disagree. Palin was not only correct, she was absolutely correct.
I actually have read the Revere AUTOBIOGRAPHY (maybe the only person on here to have so) and I’m sure for two reasons that she is right. Number one: everyone was British before the Revolutionary War. It was the Redcoats vs. The British. Americans didn’t become Americans until after the War. And, Revere without question knew that alerting anyone would alert everyone, since Tories were everywhere including in the countryside. “The British are coming..” is from a poem, not from history books. Palin knows, and is punished for not regurgitating the drivel that most people accept as Gospel.