Revere Did Warn the British; Palin FTW!

Remember when Sarah Palin said that the Tea Party was going to party like it was 1773 and the left came out in droves to mock her , only to make fools of themselves when they realized she was referencing the year the Tea Party occured and she had schooled them in a little bit of history?

It seems the left will never learn. Learn history, at least.

The new “scandal” is that Sarah Palin doesn’t know her history enough to know that Paul Revere didn’t warn the British, he warned the colonists that the British were coming.

This video is evidence of Palin’s idiocy:

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Here comes the history :

Those quibbling with Governor Palin’s statements have their history incomplete. During Paul Revere’s ride he was stopped by British soldiers, which Revere recounts in a 1789 letter maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society ,in his original language (emphasis mine):

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

Upon being stopped, did Revere, in essence, warn the British soldiers of the colonists’ plans? Yes.

Maybe next time they can actually catch her up on something, but for now, Palin is once again taking the left to school.