Sarah Palin gives a look of disappointment while listening to Department of Revenue Commissioner Pat Galvin, not pictured, answer a question from a member of the media during an impromptu news conference, in Juneau, Alaska Wednesday, April 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Miller)
By LAURIE KELLMANWASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin insisted Sunday that history was on her side when she claimed that Paul Revere's famous Massachusetts ride was intended to warn both British soldiers and his fellow colonists. "You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don't you?"
"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace asked the potential 2012 presidential candidate.
"I didn't mess up about Paul Revere," replied Palin, a paid contributor to the network."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. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have," she added.
"He did warn the British."
Palin, who again said she has not decided whether to run for president, was asked in Boston on Thursday about the Revolutionary War hero during a stop on her East Coast bus tour.
"He who warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms by ringing those bells, and makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
The Paul Revere House's website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr.
Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
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