Does anybody have a source for the claim that "Revere was captured by the British and warned them"....?

Revere wasn't the one with the guns and bells .. it was the townspeople. They were alerting other townspeople after Revere had warned the local leaders. The gunshots and bells weren't to warn the British!!!

The idea that Revere would admit to the British he was riding around to warn Settlers they were coming, and they would put him back on his horse without shooting him summarily, is blatantly ridiculous.

Sarah Palin is no more intelligent than an amoeba. You cannot rewrite history no mattery how much you try to change wikipedia or point people to "blogs" that support the version of history in Sarah Palin's mind. Have you ever in your life before today heard this version of Paul Revere's midnight ride? And now people will try to make it fit Palin's idiotic version of Paul Revere. Look at the following paragraph by Ms. Palin and tell me if you can make any sense at all out of it, real or imagined.

He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh 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 and we were going to be armed.

Revere described that in his own letter.

= I smell a rat.

Take a shower, Bob Rat.

What Sarah Palin said was obviously correct -- that the Americans weren't willing to give up their arms, and that the British were told that. Including by Paul Revere.

http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/06/04/the-sa...

this is also a commentary from Forbes. It has a portion of the letter, you can cut and paste parts and find the whole letter.

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Here is another source

http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-i-was-rig...

Revere only ratted out after being captured. It wasn't his mission to do so.

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