The British are coming!

[46er]

"On the evening of April 18, 1775, volunteer couriers Paul Revere and William Dawes, set off from Boston toward Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that after months of tension and unrest, the British were en route to disarm the rebels. Worried about their possible interception of the warning, the colonists also hung two lanterns in the bell tower of Boston’s Christ Church—a prearranged signal meaning that the Redcoats were arriving by sea. The events that followed—from the Battles of Lexington and Concord the next day to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” a century later—helped cement that flash of lantern light and the cry “The British are coming!” as the stuff of patriotic legend." - Yankee Magazine

 

[manumuskin]

I have a many generation removed Grandfather that Fought at Kings Mountain as one of the "Over The Mountain" men. That time the British were yelling "The Hillbillies are Coming!" And a royal arse whoopin the received at their hand too.

 

[Don Catts]

They say don't go on Kings Mountain if you're looking for a fight.
Them ther hillbillies are mighty handy with a gun and a knife
The bears and the bird tell them hillbillies if a stranger should wander there, etc..,
A royal mistake by the royal army.

 

[Boyd]

I guess we can't believe everything we learned in grade school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere

Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"): His mission depended on secrecy, the countryside was filled with British army patrols, and most of the Massachusetts colonists (who were predominantly English in ethnic origin) still considered themselves British.

Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere's own descriptions, was "The Regulars are coming out."

 

[Gibby]

A Briton was calling out to other Britons (mostly?) that the British were coming?

 

[46er]

A Briton was calling out to other Britons (mostly?) that the British were coming?

Technically, they were all British until the rebel Brits won the war. Similar to the CSA monicker.

 

[46er]

I guess we can't believe everything we learned in grade school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere

I don't think we can believe most things we learned in grade school, and the schools that followed as well.

The cable series Turn got it right; a bit dramatic, but its TV, and one of the better shows on cable IMHO.

http://www.history.com/news/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-paul-revere

 

[manumuskin]

The actual original British were the Celts that inhabited Briton before the Anglo/Saxon invasion but some say it wasn't really an invasion but that the Saxons we're invited over to help the Britons fight off the Vikings.In any case the British came to refer to ann those inhabiting England even though the original British were just the Celts. By the way British means "Covenant Man" in Hebrew....Just a thought as to where that came from.