Yesterday, someone posted.... 

>Paul Revere trotted his horse to warn folks that the British were
>coming in 1775 and I missed that one too. Again, fact or fiction

Fiction.

Paul Revere *borrowed* the horse from a minister to go thundering into
the countryside and warn folks that the British were coming. (They
were.)

He never got as far as Concord, as he does in the famous poem. He was
stopped by the Brits and the horse was confiscated.

After the war, Revere (a Yankee business man) billed the new American
government for the loss of the horse. He pocketed the money, and never
gave a penny of it to the minister. In effect, he *stole* the horse.

Just to let you know.

Alexandra in MA

[Posted in FML 6270]