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.
Come now, that is actually semantics which doesn’t hold up in the light of its context. Sarah is using the term “The British” as Longfellow did - to indicate the Tories and their Regular Army. She contrasts the British to “us.” The British coming to take our guns...”
Sarah obviously meant “The British [Monarchists]” as opposed to “us, [the colonial revolutionaries]. Revere was never intending to warn the other side.
Her syntax often gets jumbled and fractured. She’s prone to run-on sentences, often with unconnected clauses. That’s part of what people like about her: they can see her brain working as she speaks.
But it does mean that she can fall into some verbal potholes now and again. Dubya used to do it, as well.