Paul Revere- "the Regulars are Coming to Take Your Arms"

Sarah Palin got the sense of it right, unlike the nightly news. The media dons found it more important to WRONGLY try to ridicule Sarah Palin, rather than fact check (or with NBC, report on the Weiner). WE WERE ALL BRITS in 1775. We may have been lowly Colonials, but we considered ourselves as free British who were not being fairly dealt with by the Sovereign and Parliament.

Paul Revere was considered as an outstanding horseman. He was well known for his cross country rides in all weather over hard roads and long distances in amazingly fast time.

On April 18, 1775 Paul Revere rode from Boston to Lexington with William Dawes to warn the patriots the British [regulars] were coming to capture their leaders and their military supplies. After reaching Lexington, Revere, Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode on to warn those along the way to Concord, but they were stopped by a British patrol. Dawes escaped and turned back toward Lexington. Prescott escaped and went on to Concord. Paul Revere was captured by the patrol and questioned, but was later abandoned as the Battle of Lexington Green began.

These riders were warning the Colonials that the 'Red Coats' or the 'Regulars' were on the way to seize their arms and stop any acts of revolt! [see- http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/facts-on-paul-revere.html]

David Hackett Fischer’s Paul Revere’s Ride offers one of the best historical acounts of the events of that night to be read!

Gov. Palin may have made a slip of the tongue, but the terms, especially when the actual facts of that time are known, were confusing because we then were British... until the next day and officially when we formally Declared Independence the next year.

Paul Revere and All That - By Rich Lowry - The Corner - National Review Online

By Rich Lowry June 7, 2011

I can’t let the Palin controversy pass without urging everyone interested in this wonderful episode in American history to read David Hackett Fischer’s Paul Revere’s Ride. One of my favorite passages is when Fischer recounts Revere’s spirited response to the British when they captured him. When a British officer clapped a pistol to his head and said he’d better answer their questions truthfully, Revere responded, “I call myself a man of truth, and you have stopped me on the highway, and made me a prisoner I knew not by what right. I will tell the truth, for I am not afraid.” Later, when the British warned him he better not try to bolt or they’d blow his brains out, he said, cooly, “You may do as you please.”

(It was around this time, by the way, that the Brits realized Revere had been telling the truth when he “warned” them, as Palin put it, that the alarm had been raised in the countryside. Fischer: “At last the officers began to feel the full import of what Paul Revere had been telling them. His words of warning took on stronger meaning when punctuated by gunfire. The sound of a single shot had suggested to them that surprise was lost. The crash of a volley appeared evidence that the country was rising against them. As they came closer to the Common they began to hear Lexington’s town bell clanging rapidly. The captive [Jonathan] Loring, picking up Revere’s spirit, turned to the officers and said, ‘The bell’s a’ringing! The town’s alarmed, and you’re all dead men!’”)