Warned the British? Didn't he ride along yelling "the British are coming!"? Yep, but that's not all he did as Legal Insurrection points out.
In fact, as pointed out at Conservatives4Palin, Revere did in fact tell the British that the colonial militias, who had been alerted, were waiting for them. Here is the original historical text written by Revere (spelling in original, bold added):And from a historian:
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. 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. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms
Revere and Dawes then headed for Concord and came across Doctor Prescott who then joined them. They decided to alarm every house along the way.Patterico has a collection of the predictable lefty snickering...before they found out she was correct.
Just outside of the town of Lincoln, they were confronted by 4 Regulars at another road block. They tried unsuccessfully to run their horses through them. Prescott, who was familiar with the terrain, jumped a stone wall and escaped. Revere and Dawes tried to escape and shortly into the chase they were confronted by 6 more regulars on horseback. Revere was surrounded and taken prisoner. Dawes got away as they were taking Revere into custody.
The British officers began to interrogate Revere, whereupon Revere astonished his captors by telling them more than they even knew about their own mission. (HA!) He also told them that he had been warning the countryside of the British plan and that their lives were at risk if they remained in the vicinity of Lexington because there would soon be 500 men there ready to fight. Revere, of course, was bluffing.
The Regulars had Revere remount his horse and they headed toward Lexington Green, when suddenly, they heard a gunshot! Revere told the British officer that the shot was a signal "to alarm the country!". Now the British troops were getting very nervous ....
A few minutes later, they were all startled to hear the heavy crash of an entire volley of musketry from the direction of Lexington's meeting house and then the Lexington town bell began clanging rapidly! Jonathan Loring, a Lexington resident captured earlier, turned to his captors and shouted "The bell's a' ringing! The town's alarmed, and you're all dead men!"
The British officers then talked urgently among themselves and decided to release their captives so as they would not slow their retreat.
Even the local news in Los Angeles got in in the act, running the video of Palin's statement, followed by a snarky anchorette comment that "of course (as all us really smart people know) Revere warned the Americans that the British were coming". The meme that Palin is stupid is so pervasive that even people who are supposed to be seekers of the truth don't even bother anymore.
She has a habit of making those people look really dumb.
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Just one of the reasons fly-over folks love her.
About a year ago, the MSM were represented on Celebrity Jeopardy by CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Normally, if a contestant is in the red going into Final Jeopardy, the contestant is excluded from that round, but they make an exception for Celebrity Jeopardy.
Guess who had to be given money to participate in the final round? That's right, Wolf Blitzer.
The media are great at trying to trip up people while they're holding the card with all the answers, but when they have to compete on a level footing with others they fail.
Nice try Rick.
I am always amused at the way people will contort themselves to explain away Mrs. Palin's obviously wrong comments.
So, according to the Moore-Palin view of history, Paul Revere rode to warn the British (if so, why did Dawes, Prescott and Revere try to evade the British soldiers.)
Moore-Palin on Bombardment of Baltimore Harbor:
It was to get Francis Scott Key to use an English drinking song to create the National Anthem.
Moore-Palin of the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania:
The Germans wanted the Americans to enter the war (WW1) on behalf of the British.
Moore-Palin on Apollo 13:
The oxygen tank exploded so Ron Howard could make a movie.
Spare me, Rick.
While Palin's most recent gaffe doesn't quite match her vile attack on Obama (he pals arounds with terrorists-though she could name only one), in the scope of things it pales next to this vile comment from Jimmy Carter.
In March 1977, Edward Walsh of the Washington Post quotes Carter as saying we owe the Vietnamese nothing because the destruction was mutual.
Now Rick, I was 3 1/2 at the time of Pinkville, but I don't recall over 500 Americans being massacred in one day by the Vietnamese (unless the liberal media covered it up). Nor do I recall the Vietnamese rounding up American farmers and putting them in a secured hamlet, depriving them of their livelihood.
Yet Carter seems to suggest so.
(That vularity was match by Sen SI Hayakawa who said that the US should do nothing about the landmines we left behind in southeast Asia amd that he hoped they "killed a few more" of them.
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