"So, what's wrong?" the final clip in this compilation asks. Revere was one of three riders warning colonists of the Redcoat foray that night, and Revere was stopped by a British patrol and didn't complete his ride. But, more clearly, he certainly would not have been shouting "The British are coming!" Americans considered themselves British, so such a cry would have been as absurd as shouting "WE are coming!"
Sources: “Hullabaloo”; History Channel: “The Great American History Quiz”; “Mr. Peabody’s Improbable History”; ABC: “Schoolhouse Rocks”; “Histeria”; History Channel:“History for Kids”; “Mr. Magoo”; “Animaniacs”; Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975); “Peter Potamus”; The One and Only, Genuine Original Family Band (1968); TLC: “Myth America”; “Bozo the Clown”; Garfield: The Movie (2004); “Real Monsters”; “Mayberry, RFD”; NBC: “Saturday Night Live”; NBC: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”; “Clarissa”; HBO: “Haunted House Party”; MTV: “Beavis and Butthead”; Cartoon Network Adult Swim: “Robot Chicken”; HBO: “Braingames”.
