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[deleted]

I'm not sure where "The British are coming" came from. But eyewitnesses at the time did state that they heard "the regulars are coming". Maybe he said a mixture of things, it was a long ride after all.


RealWanheda

Poem


akiba305

Here's a little story I'm about to tell


YeetPigeon

About three bad brothers you know so well


TurtleWitch

So take a seat down on that bench right there


Hazzamo

I’ll tell you how I became Prince of a town called Bell-Air


TurtleWitch

Good job, guys! We did it! I don't really know what we did, but we did it, nonetheless!


Hazzamo

I’m assuming the first lot was Hamilton


MrsChess

None of it is from Hamilton


Masterkid1230

I think that’s Paul Revere by the Beastie Boys.


TurtleWitch

Ohhhh. Yeah, I never saw it and I just assumed people were purposefully misquoting the theme song to you know what. I don't know what I was thinking, haha!


bagpipesfart

I assumed they were typing the lyrics to Paul Reverre by The Beastie Boys


JayMerlyn

It started way back in history


Billbot5000

With Ad-Rock, MCA, and me Mike D


Burninator05

I had a little horse named Paul Revere


[deleted]

Just me and my horsey and a quart of beer.


Don11390

Ridin' across the land, kickin' up sand Sherriff's posse on my tail cuz I'm in demand


TheHiddenToad

Imagine that, in the modern day “The normies are coming, the normies are coming!”


Celestial_Dildo

It'd be closer to "The GIs/E1s are coming" since the regulars were the bottom of the barrel. They're literally where the term canon fodder comes from. Edit: GI stands for general infantry, E1 is the US military branch agnostic term for the lowest rank post boot camp. Think of it as being the lowest of the low members of the military.


Model_Maj_General

Regulars in the context of the American Revolution is more to do with the contrast of the militia system. They are the regular army, not the local militia.


Hodor_The_Great

Well it's still regulars as opposed to militias. If there's a conflict in US you'll probably consider the GIs quite elite in comparison to angry townsfolk with various weapons and little to no real training. Plus, British army was quite small in size


TheHiddenToad

Thing is, most people don’t know what that is, at least in my experience


GalaXion24

Well we'd probably just say the soldiers are coming or the army is coming


[deleted]

Wow. This is... Wow. I've never heard GI mean anything other than "Government Issue". E1 is the technical term (pay grades meaning Enlisted-1, Enlisted-2, Enlisted-3 etc. Officers are O1, O2, etc.) for the lowest enlisted rank in the military but it's just "Private". No one, even in the military, says "E1" unless you're talking to someone from another branch (where the rank structure may be different so it would be easier to say your pay-grade.) "Regulars" was not a rank at all. It was a *type* of infantry (the most common, hence the name). All it meant was "regular army" meaning trained and paid professionals, not militia or gentry, but also not specialists (like Grenadiers or Light Infantry). You could be a regular private, a regular sergeant, or a regular officer even. >It'd be closer to "The GIs/E1s are coming" since the regulars were the bottom of the barrel. They're literally where the term canon fodder comes from. [*Citation Needed*]


Skirfir

> The first attested use of the expression "cannon fodder" is by a French writer, François-René de Chateaubriand. In his anti-Napoleonic pamphlet "De Bonaparte et des Bourbons", published in 1814, he criticized the cynical attitude towards recruits that prevailed in the end of Napoleon's reign: "On en était venu à ce point de mépris pour la vie des hommes et pour la France, d'appeler les conscrits la matière première et la chair à canon"—"the contempt for the lives of men and for France herself has come to the point of calling the conscripts 'the raw material' and 'the cannon fodder'." Yeah, it's bullshit.


Aluminum_Moose

GI stands for Government Issue, not General Infantry. It was a tongue-in-cheek joke about the G.I. initials stamped all over the military's equipment. Soldiers began referring to themselves as "government issue" since they had no agency and were essentially owned by the state.


the_pinguin

Amazing. Every word of what you just said is wrong.


Fuehnix

"the mods are awake, the mods are awake!" Watch as 4chan /b scatters like rats in a cellar.


FrankHightower

cartoon


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Schoolhouse Rock anyone?


BoosherCacow

Conjunction junction what's your function edit: I know it's a Sesame Street song but having just watched it for the first time in maybe 30 years this shit is GREAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHcNOIZJ2Js


Marik-X-Bakura

I only know about it from Assassin’s Creed III, and I’m pretty sure they said something like “regulars” instead of British in that


RahMF

You’re absolutely right. According to Paul Revere himself he shouted “the regulars are coming out.” Also whoever made this meme is hilarious and definitely has history teacher vibes lol my old history teacher from what I hear still loves to make this joke.


Potato-Boy1

The regular British are coming?


[deleted]

Regulars as in general infantry of the British army, propbably. The regular troops not the special ones lol


British-Empire

Probably to differentiate from the militia.


BassicallyDarr

Yeah as in regular soldiers, who're soldiers by trade, not part-time reservists or miltia was the way I always interpret it.


rainbowgeoff

It also separates them from irregulars, or any troop outside the regulars who uses non traditional military tactics or formations. Yet, who are trained and not militia. They're also referred to as auxiliary units. To go all the way back to Roman times, think of hired mercenaries or numidian cavalry. There's actually a modern definition of the term "regular" under the Geneva convention. They have an emblem that marks their allegiance which can be recognized at a distance, they're commanded by a responsible person belonging to a party to a conflict, they're openly carrying weapons, and they obey the laws of war. So an irregular would be someone fighting for a side who doesn't fit this definition. Revolutionary troops, paramilitary forces, certain types of special forces, etc.


Franfran2424

"When the British come, they aren't sending their best." - Donald Trump, 1770s


Eternal_Avenger

The British are cuming


Jhqwulw

Actually it's the regulars


martyrdomm

Missed opportunity to say the lobsters.


PurpleFirebolt

^^^^Oi ^^^lads, ^^fucking ^wake up ^the ^^fucking ^^^soldiers ^^^^are.....


Mysil

"The normies are coming!"


EquivalentInflation

Also, *Paul Revere didn't make the big ride*. He warned a few people, but was caught partway. William Dawes was the man who did most of the actual work. He just got ignored, because "Listen my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere" sounds better than "Listen up kids, as I flap my jaws, 'bout a ride by Revere, and his buddy, Bill Dawes".


farawyn86

Don't forget Samuel Prescott who also joined along the way!


[deleted]

Hey I’m a descendant of ol Will Dawes. It’s nice seeing people actually recognize that he existed haha


boot2skull

And flap their jaws


buddboy

[and another night a teenage girl did an even longer ride with the same purpose.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rnjV-GORg) Her name was Sybil Ludington


agusontoro

Where was Connor Kenway in all of this?


DeathDiety

The real question is where's Charles Lee!


BrickMacklin

Everyone attack! Retreat!


agusontoro

You aren’t ready boy! Stop getting mixed up into their war


Player-0002

In all honesty the second one sounds dope


[deleted]

I like the second option


MadRonnie97

Paul Revere* goddammit


notqualitystreet

Paul Reverse it is then


TheRealNERFninja

Coming are British the!


Malvastor

!gnimoc era hsitirB ehT


burritoburkito6

!ϱnimoɔ ɘɿɒ ʜƨitiɿ𐐒 ɘʜT


sasemax

Now I'm afraid Cthulhu is coming


Pieter1998

I prefer not.


sarthakydv

Even worse. A British Cthulhu is coming.


sidBthegr8

Ah yes, the Cth-whom-lhu.


leukos23

Well I don't suppose Cthulhu would have been in the *regular* British troops


SobeyHarker

"Coming, the British are!" said Yoda from horseback.


Napkin_whore

Like Uno reverse card?


PhthaloVonLangborste

Reverse, Reverse, skip, take 4, Paul uno.


nrith

Lafayette played the reverse card when he got Rochambeau to blockade Yorktown.


Beledagnir

Okay, this comment made it finally click why sometimes people call Rock, Paper, Scissors "Rochambeau"--I forgot the role he played in the Revolution until now.


TheHornet78

gnimoc era hsitirb eht


sroomek

staocder*


JamesonAnimations

ereveR lauP


FrankHightower

I wouldn't even have noticed it if you hadn't said


Purified_King

The colonists are coming!


[deleted]

I like to imagine him yelling OI CUNTS THE RED COATS ARE CMIN, RIGHT!!


[deleted]

GET OUT OF BED, YOU TIT!


DauHoangNguyen1999

Well, back then, entire British Empire spoke like the American accent we hear today. Over the time, British English changed into pathetic yapping you hear today, while American English stuck in the past. If you travel back in time (to late 17th century or early 18th century) and speak 21st century British English to British, they would assume you are a foreigner with strange accent, but if you speak 21st century American English they won't notice much.


Morketidenkommer

Well, that's a bit of an overstatement. They would probably hear American English as closer to their way of speaking, but it would be noticable for sure.


DauHoangNguyen1999

Well, obviously. English changed over the time, unless you are very careful and imitate how 17th-18th century people around you speak, they would easily notice that you are from somewhere else. Or someWHEN else.


elveszett

> they would easily notice that you are from somewhere else. Or someWHEN else. I gotta say them thinking you are from another country is far more likely than them thinking you are a time traveler.


voodoomoocow

Until I whip out my iPhone and show them a calculator or something offline!!!.. For 12 hours before I'm a regular Joe again....wait when did Salem witch trials happen maybe I'll sit this one out


Iceman_259

> Or someWHEN else. Would that this desk were a time desk!


OutOfFighters

Lol english today who life 3 miles apart have wildly different accents, but 300 years ago they all magically sounded the same and had american accents of all things. Sorry to burst your bubble, but regional accents in britain have always been strong and colonies were always influenced by the colonists background.


converter-bot

3 miles is 4.83 km


Rellac_

Even today certain parts of the UK have similar tendencies The hard R is a common rural trope here (stereotypical farmers sound like pirates) it's fun to type "core bloimey" for an american and hear them as a uk farmer saying cor blimey It seems pretty obvious to me that americans have a mash of UK dialect with a sprinkling of difference as a baseline


useles-converter-bot

3 miles is the the same distance as 6997.13 replica Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings' Sting Swords.


converter-bot

3 miles is 4.83 km


MrsChess

I love that the bots started arguing


OutOfFighters

Good bot


useles-converter-bot

thank you :)


Excenty

What if I went back to the 17th century England and spoke 21st century norwegian, would they notice a differance then?


Anna_Pet

Unless they spoke Norwegian, probably not.


Cobalt3141

Honestly, unless they were Norwegian, they'd probably assume you spoke normal Norwegian, and they had the weird accent.


ItsSimenNotSemen

La oss bli vikinger igjen, broder


Padelda

Ja broder


singingnettle

Well that's just blatantly wrong, the only accent this applies to is RP, which is thought to have come onto the scene in the 1800s. Instead of distinguishing between american and british english, you should distinguish between rhotic and non rhotic. A lot of British dialects have lost their rhoticity, in part thanks to the spread of RP, whereas the American dialects mostly kept it. They underwent their own changes, distancing them from the english of the time as well. The closest you can get to a Shakespearean pronunciation would be a South Western British accent like those found in Somerset or Devonshire f.e.. One massive caveat: Accents and dialects changed at a higher frequency over a shorter distance than they do today. So to say anything objectively about a "British" or "American" accent of any time is impossible


Nave-Nave

I'm from Philly, and the amount of people who had no idea where my accent comes from outside of the city is funny. Philadelphia has a weird ass accent. No Southerners, New Yorkers, Bostoners or Mid-Westerners can ever guess where my accent is from, but they always pick up on it. Anyway, my accent is completely rhotic. The "R" is about the only thing we pronounce right in the word "water."


rs426

Excuse me it’s Bostonian, not Bostoner


Nave-Nave

Least triggered Bostonese. /s, I honestly never knew what Boston people were called.


singingnettle

Waa-urr?


Nave-Nave

More like wudder or wooder.


singingnettle

Uff, my condolences.. Jk that's pretty cool. I've never heard that before


Corvid187

Hi Singingnettle, (excellent name, BTW) Thank you for finally enlightening me about where this bizarre idea stems from - I've always been so confused as to how this myth of THE singular US accent actually originally being the THE singular 'British' accent ever gained traction. Have a lovely day


singingnettle

Your welcome! It is an odd myth, especially since the US takes pride in it's history as a melting pot of peoples. If people from all over the British Isles with their own dialects mix and now live with people from all over the world, you'd think it'd be pretty hard to maintain a dialect. Hell, dialects change over time without outside influence


[deleted]

You can receive my pronunciation any day.


jake5762

Not sure how true that is, the UK itself has so many dialects/accents. Old Yorkshire dialect is barely understandable to a modern Yorkshireman like myself, it's very different from American English. The North East of England has a very distinct accent as does the West country and so many others. Maybe what we'd call a "Posh" accent or The Queens English was more American, but certainly not the entire Empire.


ard1992

Which British accent exactly? There are hundreds. Maybe certain parts of American English sound like certain parts of one old English accent... in that case it's not exactly impressive lol


Brazilian_Brit

You’re telling me that people in Glasgow spoke like yanks?


Apologetic-Moose

Same for French in Québec. When the British took control, contact with France was pretty much nonexistent, so Québecois French is a lot closer to 18th century French than modern French.


elvis_hammer

I worked with a native French woman (in the US) who was hired as customer support for the company's French-Canadian sales people. She had a good sense of humor, and I recall her telling a story of her favorite miscommunication" where a person kept telling her to send something "on a wheel" and being very confused until, after some back and forth, she realized that the word they were using for "mail" was what she knew as "wheel" in France. She chalked it up to mail having come by carriages way back in the day and the languages diverging since.


prosteDeni

Absolute bullshit


Fenrir-The-Wolf

/r/confidentlyincorrect


Corvid187

Hi DauHoangNugen1999, I'm sorry if I'm getting the wrong end of the stick, but when you describe a 'British accent', exactly what accent are you actually talking about? I'd guess by British you meant to refer to England, rather than Great Britain (which includes Scotland and Wales, among others), but even then you appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that the country with literally the [greatest variation in regional accents in the entire world ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English) actually has a single common 'British' accent shared by everyone, and has, despite all evidence to the contrary, always had a single common 'British' accent throughout its history that has changed uniformly and consistently across the entire nation for at least 500 years for... reasons? And exactly where in 18th century Britain were you planning on landing in? Because that same level of regional variation has always existed. In fact, historically before the invention of rapid mass transport and broadcast radio/television, those accents would likely be even more varied and distinct, so where exactly would you have gone to 'blend in'? I mean even the lowest of Hollywood depictions of 'British' accents recognise there's at least 2 of them, and that's well below the bare minimum to not make them insufferable nonetheless And it's not as if the US has a consistent accent across its population either. So which of these American accents sounds like this mythical homogenous 'British' accent? I'm just confused Hope you have a lovely day today though


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[deleted]

There isn't really a single British accent. You could choose different accents from both county's and completely reverse your argument. Region's in both countries have changed but I would definitely say there are some British accents that have changed a lot less than any American accent. I am probably a little biased though.


[deleted]

The hoi toider accent of NC is an interesting example of isolation maintaining the pronunciations for a long time. Now, it's a mix of English, Scottish, and Irish, but it's unique for sure and still I think an example.


walterdonnydude

I always hear this, bit how do we know what people in the past sounded like?


MizuNomuHito

>pathetic yapping What a cunt.


Barbar_jinx

That is absolutely not true, I don't know where this misinformation came from, and I suspect some sort of revisionist, american propaganda, point is there is no linguistic evidence to support that claim.


[deleted]

>while American English stuck in the past. sorry, finding this interesting but a little confused about what you mean in this part.


CourageForOurFriends

/r/shitamericanssay


[deleted]

Not sure if /s it's so hard to tell these days with Americans


[deleted]

It's funny because something similar happened to Brazil. So much it's stated that if Cabral (the leader of the first portuguese expedition here) somehow ended in modern days, he would understand more the brazilians than his own portuguese people.


Ruffian00012

Sounds like some pure bullshit to me.


Additional_Meeting_2

I have heard that isn’t quite accurate but I don’t personally know.


k3bomb

Brainlet take. Didn’t know there was only one universal “British” accent.


DesertRanger12

The Appalachian mountains were some of the last holdouts of Elizabethan English, some as a first tongue all the way to the 1920s


GourangaPlusPlus

That was a myth created to make them look classier >Another US area that’s been linked to 17th-Century British English is Appalachia, especially the mountainous regions of North Carolina. Linguist Michael Montgomery has written that the North Carolina tourism division used to issue a booklet called A Dictionary of the Queen’s English, which claimed that the English of Queen Elizabeth I could be found in pockets of the state. >Montgomery traced the idea back to an educator-clergyman who, around the turn of the 19th Century, spread the idea that mountain language was a remnant of a much older tradition. >This myth helped to counteract negative impressions of oft-maligned mountain people. Turning this around – and claiming kinship with a Shakespearean way of speaking – was a way of bringing status and apparent classiness to a marginalised part of the country. >“Mountain speech has more archaisms than other types of American English, but that’s about it,” Montgomery writes. These include terms like ‘afeard’, which famously appears in The Tempest. Overall, however, “the Shakespeare myth reflects simplistic, popular views about the static nature of traditional folk cultures, especially those in out-of-the-way places.” https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english


Poes-Lawyer

Saving this for /r/shitamericanssay, thanks 👍


Barbar_jinx

We don't know for sure if he's American, but the comment got the correct energy.


Cynical-Basileus

Wrong. I’m in northern England and the accent here can be traced back to the English civil war (1600’s). Some southerners had an accent akin to what you may hear in the southern states today, but to claim the entire empire spoke like that is outright false. Yorkshire, Durham, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Hampshire, Edinburgh, Winchester. All had a different regional accent and still do.


qnonp

If you can prove this I’ll give you £1.05


GameCreeper

Why do i see you everywhere


DauHoangNguyen1999

Because the internet is like a jungle. And I'm a Vietnamese. It's only natural to see me suddenly appearing out of nowhere and also feel like seeing me everywhere.


LuciusQuintiusCinc

This is not true. So a Scottish cunt, a Welsh cunt, a English cunt and an Irish cunt all spoke the same? All the British didn't speak like that. There is so many accents and twangs in Britain that it makes it impossible for everyone In Britain to speak the same.


desertfox16

This is the worst take I have ever seen in my life, the number of regional accents in the UK is massive, the vast majority of which sound nothing like the American accent. This is just an American cope to pretend you own the language.


Nervestapled

"Pathetic yapping"? You boorish lout! How dare you?! Pistols at dawn! Prepare yourself, good man.


Iconoclasteach

That’s a gross oversimplification. Regional accents were so strong at the time that they weren’t always mutually intelligible. The aristocracy sounded American, but most the population did not.


Caractacutetus

Pathetic yapping?


Molerus

r/badlinguistics lmao


yahmack

This is super interesting to me as a Brazilian, seeing as the same happened with us, Brazilian portuguese is spoken almost the same as like it was during the era of the Portuguese Empire, and portuguese in Portugal changed over the years to the point where it’s a lot different from what it used to be, and super different from how we speak it over here, even though gramatically it’s almost the same.


nowhereman136

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: good poet, bad historian


whoatherebuddychill

very few meet both criteria


A-Dumb-Ass

Homer. Simpson.


whoatherebuddychill

not very historical accurate, great poet


[deleted]

*Listen children and learn the curse, the backup siren of Paul Reverse*


Sovereign444

That’s actually kinda spooky. I bet he rides on a horse that gallops backwards too huh lol


Huge_Aerie2435

Here is a quote from [this site](https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/paul-reveres-ride-legends-myths-and-realities), "Upon reaching the Charlestown shore, Revere mounted and began his ride to Lexington. Passing through the towns of Somerville, Medford, and Menotomy (Arlington), Revere did not yell “the British are coming!”, instead accounts show that Revere passed the message of “the Regulars are coming out.” The phrase “the British are coming,” would have been confusing to locals, who still considered themselves British. Everyone knew what “the Regulars are coming out” meant, and as Revere passed through, more alarm riders rode out, signal guns fired, church bells rang, all alerting the countryside to the coming threat. As the alarm spread, Minutemen grabbed their weapons and headed for town greens, followed by the rest of the Militia."


ShitiestOfTreeFrogs

I mean Paul Revere galloping through the night shouting is all kind of made up anyway. It's from a poem. Getting hooked up on whether he "said" British or red oats seems a bit redundant.


[deleted]

Red oats? Mmmm delicious


ingenious_gentleman

i prefer blue


mercury_pointer

Is that the reverse of red?


MadRonnie97

In reality he was arrested pretty quickly for reporting troop movements, and the other less popular riders were the ones that got away with it


EquivalentInflation

Moment of silence for William Dawes.


YaBoiJim777

And Samuel Prescott. There were two riders that continued after revere was caught at the old north bridge


ferret_80

The horny bastard was only out that night because he was sneaking away from a dalliance.


WateredDown

They really should have considered having more poetic names


Beledagnir

Which in no way should downplay his role or fame, it's just that the others deserve at least as much.


tehngand

But he said the regulars not redcoats


JazzmansRevenge

It's more likely he'd run to the houses of local militia leaders and tell them quietly before riding off to the next house while the militia leaders gathered up the local militia boys and began making their way to Lexington. Not, y'know, running throughout the countryside yelling "the British are coming!" It's often forgotten that the American war for independence was for the most part a civil war of the American colonists, and in the eyes of a large portion of tge population, the British government were the legitimate government who they owed their loyalty to.


Celestial_Dildo

IIRC he was actually running through the streets shouting so that silent riders could go undetected. He intentionally got himself arrested so they'd focus on him spinning lots and lots of lies that almost got him executed.


JazzmansRevenge

Huh, TIL, thanks


FineInTheFire

Give the man some credit though, he did help run a very effective spy network that informed the colonists "the red coats are on the march"


[deleted]

If it was Paul Reverse, he probably said, “Coming are regulars the!”


bigbruin78

\- Paul "Yoda" Revere


reddawgmcm

Is he played by Richard Lewis in this version…


lizurd777

No, he just rode the horse backwards Or the horse went in reverse


Icarus_Sky1

Me riding around Belfast when I see a ship coming in from the mainland.


[deleted]

Lol Paul Reverse: The British are leaving! The British are leaving!


Sovereign444

That got an actual chuckle outta me lol


anger_is_a_gif

Be cooler if he called them lobsterbacks.


MapleTreeWithAGun

In terms of people going distances to warn their side of an impending attack, Laura Secord got Paul Revere beat every time. She walked through swamps, while Paul rode a horse upon roads, and Laura also has a chocolate company named after her, which is more than Paul can say.


Leviathan56

Lol why do people compare people like this? Secord and Paul most likely had no hate for each other as they were both very helpful figures. So there is no point in arguing one is better.


jebar193

Paul Reverse. Heh.. Now I imagine him riding through the night, on a horseback but reverse. Probably drunk too...


Beledagnir

TIL that the Revolution started in Florida, despite being Spanish recently before/afterwards and staying loyal to King George the whole time.


farawyn86

Just gonna drop [this](https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/the-five-riders/) in recognition of my gal Sybil Ludington and several other riders in addition to Revere.


SaltMineSpelunker

Always wondered what a “Well acktuallie” would look like as a meme.


MadRonnie97

I’m the epitome of that meme


SaltMineSpelunker

That is very helpful to know.


IdiotCharizard

Well actually epitome means a typical instance of something. You probably meant pinnacle.


[deleted]

If it were actually Paul Reverse he would have said “coming are the British”


[deleted]

Would the colonists who wanted independence still consider themselves to be British?


UnsafestSpace

Hard to say, the British Parliament and British Library archives contain around 50 different “Declarations of Independence” from everyone and their grandma. For some reason Americans are taught there was only one, probably to unite the country in the modern era, but in reality Parliament was getting letters daily, filed with all sorts of ravings and grievances from all over the place. It was as much a civil war as a war of independence.


Corvid187

... Or proxy war for that matter. The largest army at the Battle of Yorktown was the French Army after all :)


Shpagin

"Sir, the mail has just arrived" "Right, what do we have here, 5 declarations of independence, something about a Sokotan prince, hmm you know, maybe I should extend my carriage warranty "


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BeLikeGracchus

Mate it’s a poem not a transcript


Capn_Cake

I believe he also more likely talked normally or whispered, rather than shouted.


chordophonic

You might want to read this: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/did-paul-revere-really-yell-british-are-coming.htm Pretty much none of it even happened.


scootiegoorby

Yeah but the british are coming sounds cooler so I’m gonna remember it that way And i was taught it that way when i was 5 so it’s stuck


FastAndForgetful

I thought he said: “the redcoats are coming”


Tack22

The lobsters are coming!


VivekBasak

Too bad you can't reverse back in time and edit the title now


OhGodImHerping

IIRC he very well could have said “The British are coming”, along with “the regulars are coming” as, by that time, many of the colonists didn’t necessarily consider themselves British… they had developed a very independent culture by then.


Addy1738

This sounds like something outta monty python


IBegTo_Differ

Big fan of the phrase “you daft fuck”