[Ads-l] Paul Revere Quote

[Joel Berson]

Does David Hackett Fischer say anything about this quote in Paul Revere’s Ride?

Joel


      From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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 Subject: [ADS-L] Paul Revere Quote
   
The earliest mention I have found of Paul Revere's alleged quotation "The British are coming" is in Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge, Stories of a Grandfather About American History (1874).  Can anyone supply any earlier occurrences?


Fred Shapiro

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