Are you sure, did he really see the British?
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride was not a journey to alert his countrymen that the British were coming in order that they might as a group surrender their freedom in an orderly manner. He risked his life to forewarn like- minded individuals of the advancing British Army and the tyranny they sought to impose. The alarm he sounded was meant to awaken the spirit of rugged individualism, so that free men could rally to defend themselves from those who would deny them their liberty.
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