Sarah Palin - a bit of a history lesson
From the
Boston Herald:
Experts back Sarah Palin�s historical account
Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere �warned the British� during his famed 1775 ride � remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed � is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up.
Palin prompted howls of partisan derision when she said on Boston�s Freedom Trail that Revere �warned the British that they weren�t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he�s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.�
Palin insisted yesterday on Fox News Sunday she was right: �Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there. That, hey, you�re not going to succeed. You�re not going to take American arms.�
In fact, Revere�s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin�s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them �there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.�
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, �Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, �Look, there is a mobilization going on that you�ll be confronting,� and the British are aware as they�re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing � she was right about that � and warning shots being fired. That�s accurate.�
The
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem is a nice poem but it is not historically correct.
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Posted by DaveH at June 6, 2011 11:10 AM