When Paul Revere is riding through Boston warning that the British are coming, what does he say?

Question

I have heard that he says "The Redcoats are coming, the redcoats are coming!" Because the Colonists were still British even though they lived in America. or did he say "The British are coming"

Answer 1

The role for which he is most remembered today was as a nighttime messenger before the battles of Lexington and Concord. His famous "Midnight Ride" occurred on the night of April 18–19, 1775, when he and William Dawes were sent by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride inland from Charlestown to warn the militias at Lexington and Concord of the approach of British army troops from Boston. Robert Newman and Captain John Pulling held the two lanterns in the Old North Church, indicating that the British soldiers were crossing the Charles River. Later, Dawes and Revere were joined by Samuel Prescott, a doctor who was just returning from a visit to Lexington. Instructed to make as little noise as possible on the route, Revere chose instead to alarm the houses along the route by shouting out a warning of the approaching troops. Revere probably did not shout the famous phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"); his warning was: "The regulars are out!"


Paul Revere's ride.He reached Lexington around midnight and brought news of the British advance to Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were spending the night at the Hancock-Clarke House. All three riders were captured by British troops in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to nearby Concord. Prescott and Dawes escaped, with Prescott able to reach Concord to deliver the warning. Revere was detained longer and had his horse confiscated. He walked back to Lexington and arrived in time to see the first shots of the battle the next day. The warning delivered by the three riders successfully allowed the militia to repel the British troops, who were harried by guerrilla fire along the road back to Boston.

Revere's role in the battle was not especially noted during his life. In 1860, over forty years after his death, the ride became the subject of "Paul Revere's Ride", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was one of the most well-known in American history and was memorized by generations of schoolchildren. Its famous opening lines are:

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
Longfellow took many liberties with the events of the evening, most especially giving credit to Revere for the collective achievements of the three riders. As a result, historians in the 20th century sometimes considered Revere's role in American history to have been exaggerated, becoming a national myth. Some historians have since stressed his importance, however, including David Hackett Fischer's book Paul Revere's Ride (1995), an important scholarly study of Revere's role in the opening of the Revolution. In fact, a man named Israel Bissel rode from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. Revere only rode 19 miles across Massachusetts.

Revere's greatest contribution to the American Revolution was the alarm and messenger system that he designed and implemented before the battles of Lexington and Concord. He used his numerous contacts in eastern Massachusetts to devise a system for the rapid call up of the militias to oppose the British. Although several messengers rode longer and alerted more soldiers than Revere that night, they were part of the organization that Revere created and implemented in eastern New England. Some claim that Paul Revere became famous while Dawes and Prescott did not because Revere was better known and trusted by those who knew him. Therefore people acted on his words instead of ignoring the strangers waking them up after midnight. The army that assembled during the night of his famous ride would become the nucleus of the Continental Army.

Today, parts of the ride are posted with signs marked "Revere's Ride". The full ride used Main Street in Charlestown, Broadway and Main Street in Somerville, Main Street and High Street in Medford, to Arlington center, and Massachusetts Avenue the rest of the way (an old alignment through Arlington Heights, Massachusetts is called "Paul Revere Road").

More details may be found at Paul Revere's Ride.

Answer 2

The answer is " The British are coming" See Faith & Freedom by
Benjamin Hart

At one point, Revere was spotted by two British officers who gave chase, but were easily outdistanced by the famed Patriot horseman. "The British are coming! The British are coming!" he yelled as he passed every home. Samuel Adams and John Hancock were in Lexington, staying at the home of the Reverend Jonas Clarke. The Provincial Congress had adjourned and they were on their way to Philadelphia. Revere galloped up to Clarke's house. "The British are coming!" he yelled. Adams and Hancock awoke, and Revere disappeared into the night to alert the residents of Concord. By daybreak, Minutemen were on the march as far distant as New Hampshire and Connecticut.

Answer 3

The British are coming?

Answer 4

As the famous poem goes he said "The British are coming." but he didn't really say that because the British had been there for some time before this so there was no reason to warn of who was already there.

Answer 5

Paul Revere didn't ride through Boston. Remember the line "and I on the opposite shore will be..."? He was across the Charles River in Charlestown.

Answer 6

In the movies they show him saying the British are coming...the British are coming. That's it.

Answer 7

"The British are coming, The British are coming"

Answer 8

"The British are coming, The British are coming"

Answer 9

He says "The redcoats are coming" twice.

Answer 10

Tarry not for thither are the British