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.
So, she got that part right. Revere was stopped by British troops and did in fact, under questioning, warn them that they would be fought and defeated if they tried to take the arms from the colonists.
Here is the part she got wrong,
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.”
Here is what she missed. On the night of April 18 and morning of April 19, 1775 there were no such creatures as Americans. Not until later on the morning of the 19th would the idea of “Americans” be born. In fact, the term might not even have been born that morning. Up until the first shots rang out in Lexington the colonials were subjects of the British Crown. Taking up arms against their sovereign’s soldiers was an act of treason to the British, not an act of Revolution. It’s a subtle concept, but ever so important to the founding of our country. From that morning on, the tear was irreparable, and the colonies embarked on the road to forming a new nation.
Subtlety was never her strong point.
Getting captured by the enemy and losing a borrowed horse — not a good night.
And treason is right. The risks our Founding Fathers took never cease to amaze me.
Not exactly the outcome they were looking for from Revere. Still, the message did get out. The history of the Founders of this nation, especially those that put their treason into writing in the Declaration of Independence, is an amazing story. Too bad kids aren’t taught it any longer.
If she had said “colonists” or whatever else someone might call early American’s all the liberals would have been completely confused about who she was speaking of.
They were anyway. Not to mention being in a tizzy about her being “wrong”. It’s fun watching the liberals run into walls after she winds them up.