I actually came down to the comments just to point out this same fact. I was surprised Adam didn't mention it. Glad someone else knew that one as well.
I live in Concord! My family often goes walking past Paul Reveres capture site. The revolution was a large part of our curriculum in school and we were taught that Paul Revere likely said "The redcoats are coming" or "The lobster backs are coming" since those were both common nicknames for the British soldiers at the time.
I remember watching Liberty's Kids on PBS back in the day and even they showed that it wasn't just Revere and they said stuff like "the regulars are coming"
Adam failed to mention my favorite rider: Sybil Ludington. She alerted militia forces in villages of Putnam County, New York and Danbury, Connecticut, to the approach of the British regular forces on April 26, 1777. That’s more than twice the distance attributed to Revere.
My fifth grade class did a play on the American Revolution and we had this great joke where Sybil (upset that she’s not as known as Paul Revere) tried to convince Henry Longfellow to make a poem about her, only for him to struggle coming up with a compelling rhyme. Of course, the History Police then show up to arrest our host George Washington because Longfellow wasn’t born during the Revolution, and they even revoked George’s “dramatic license”
I think what needs to be remembered is that the revolution was largely about economic interest. The famous tax on tea was not really a tax in the modern sense, it was a monopoly imposed on the colonies by the east India company. The merchant class and craftsmen, which included people like Revere and John Hancock, opposed this because it harmed them economically (Hancock was the richest man in Boston and personally lost a lot of money from the cheap tea being sent to the colonies by the East India company, and many other merchants and craftsmen wanted protective tariffs to help their growing industries). These people were mostly in the north, hints why the rebellion began in Boston.
Also important to note is that the British weren't being greedy like we paint them as. They fought a very expensive war and felt that it only fair the colonists who benefited from it the most should help pay for it. Colonists were in fact paying much lower taxes than citizens back in England even with the initial taxes Parliament imposed, but the New England colonies were going through financial troubles so the colonies were hurt by taxes that would have otherwise been harmless, not to mention it really started to get colonists mad about having no say in Parliament. But still that didn't directly lead to the Revolution, that was a last resort after all other attempts to negotiate failed.
@@ichijofestival2576 When you look at both sides, it feels more like a tragedy that it happened. The British were trying to raise money in a way they thought would be harmless, not realizing the impacts their actions would have on colonies across the Atlantic because they chose the exact wrong time to implement them. The colonies pushed back out fear this violation of their rights would be the first of many, but their resistance to the government authority caused the British to fear a rebellion. Their push back when the colonies were just trying to appeal through legal means help create a real rebellion. The entire war started because a bunch of things all happened at once that on their own would have either been harmless, or at least not had a huge impact on the colonies as a whole.
@@dragonstormx That's basically a lot of history in a nutshell. Many tragedies or even good things happen because of the right (or wrong) combination of factors happened around the same time.
They don’t mention it here, but Revere became so famous and associated with the ride because Longfellow wrote a poem about him in 1860 that credited him with the whole mission
Indeed. The original was good for a poem, but this has something a lot more interesting story of Paul and the others having a well coordinated event and planning. So really this isn't RUINING Paul REvere's image...it just makes it less silly of a way to think that he was able to go do all this stuff in a single night. It actually shows how smart the Revolutionary army was.
And usually it's not anything surprising, like finding out history is twisted to be more palatable? SHOCKER. We literally see that happening right now. I like knowing the truth. I think it's sad how upset some people get. Finding out you had the wrong information shouldn't cause cognitive dissonance but it seems like it does for people who just can't accept that much of what we're told is a lie 🤷🏻♀️
The real story is much better there.. more boring and logical in ways, since it's not out oif the ordinary for them.. but one special hero, is too movie-like which makes it even more boring and annoying to listen to. Seeing a proper functioning plan with many riders and secrecy, is far more interesting I think. Even if it is more logical and less obnoxious.
I'm kind of disappointed they didn't mention Sybil Ludington. I haven't seen the full episode, so I don't know if she appears in it or not, but it's still a cool story. Basically, a teenage girl did almost the exact same thing as Revere, except for longer and by herself.
Serena Koehler Well, like I said, she might've been mentioned, but I would understand if she wasn't. She might've been cut for time, or otherwise looked over in favor of facts that discredit what happened directly, rather than discredit the fact that what Revere did was unique.
There is a statue of Sybil Ludington not far from where I grew up in upstate New York, so I've known about her for quite some time! The statue always looked like it was foaming at the mouth, though, so when I was young I was convinced that she was just some crazy girl who rode around on horseback and hit people with a stick.
well he did talk about a slave who could read & write who went undercover in the british army to learn their plans & eventually won freedom for all his help
“You’re gonna tell me you’re not French with hair and clothes like that?” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love French jokes, but they annoy the crap out of my French roommate XD
There was also a young woman named Sybil Ludington, the 16-year-old girl who rode forty miles on horseback through the Hudson Highlands (on a stormy night, no less!) to muster the militia in defense of Danbury. She out rode all the men. Then was personally thanked by General Washington.
If you want a true contribution from Paul Revere...He opened up the first ever copper rolling mill, and even effectively made the first currency for the new free world...contributions that were WAY more helpful than his one failed ride
Well.. can't argue with that. Although Russia are capitalist, just a really dodgy version of it lol. They are also very far off of Social Democracy, which is what people on the left like Bernie want. Not to be confused with straight up Socialism (which is shit). Communism is a whole different thing.
If you want a special midnight rider that deserves Revere's notoriety, you could always celebrate Sybil Ludington, who rode from 9 pm until dawn on unpaved roads through a fierce storm to summon her father's troops to fight back against the burning of Danbury, Connecticut 😀 Prior to that, she apparently saved her father from capture at the hands of the British using Home Alone-style illusions in the windows to fool soldiers that a whole militia was in her house.
"Revere didn't go yelling! That would get him captured!" Me: "...uh, actually, Revere was..." "Revere and Dawes were caught and thrown in jail after warning Lexington!" Me: "there it is!"
Well take one for the team and marry him. He'll chew your ear off about marriage being a money making bullshit thing and you'll live happily ever after
I'm about to show this to my teacher who taught this yesterday and speak truth in her face and she even dares to make to get me expelled I'm going to say y'all can't handle the truth
Jari Olavi Lipponen oh i can understand that but i mean common sense would dictate that one man alone could do that is kind of preposterous given the technology of the time
Considering that the basic Revere -myth is about horse riding trough Boston it's sort of acceptable as long as you don't think about it. To be honest the only reason I even remember the guy is because he was one of the possible founding fathers in Sid Meyer's Colonization.
A poet from the 1860s used his name when describing the success of the mission so basicly he became the poster boy for the midnight ride and after hundreds of year people just credited him with doing 100% of the work.
2:30 Adam is right. I seen and episode of Fetch with Ruff Ruffman about Paul Revenue and he actually said “The Red Coats are coming” which they’re actually called the Regulars. Also at 3:19 in the episode it says he got captured which explains why he can’t finish his midnight ride.
This was how I learned it: We were taught that he said “The Regulars are out!” We already knew other people were doing the same thing We knew who Dr. Warren was We knew he was captured And that’s all we learned. We didn’t know that he whispered, and we didn’t know he was captured with another dude
I read Glenn Beck's book on the subject. It says the same thing and came out long before this. Sure the myth is played down but that doesn't diminish the bravery and dedication of the Sons of Liberty. If anything it shows how intelligent and determined the Patriots were in fighting the crown
I love how most of this was taught similarly in my middle school (im currently 16). Shows real progress in clearing up propaganda out of American history. (We learn about Rosalind Franklin too)
Well, there's one thing Paul Revere should be known for paper currency, gunpowder manufacturing, and copper roll. Being a silversmith does come in handy. Thought him being the center was result of him taking the credit as more rememberable member.
I read in the comments on the video truTV posted that it was a famous American poet who wrote about how brave his ride was. Don’t remember which one, but you should be able to Google from here.
AC3 is based on popular facts. Also even in AC3 he said ' The regulars are marching for Hexington and Concord' and he did it in private, not yelling. So they got 2 out of 3 facts correct.
If you read the British guy's notes in AC3, he pretty much stomps on the romanticized myths of the American Revolution. There's a point where he notes that Washington messed up the crossing of the Brandywine, and there were enough British troops present that they could have crushed the rebellion then and there, but the British messed up too, so the revolutionaries fluked their way through it. And also where American pomp paints it as a crushing rout and defeat of the British, it's pointed out that, had they really wanted to, the British could have brought the full force of their colonial armies and completely crushed the rebellion, but they treated it as a business decision and wrote it off, as, at the time, America was largely a vastly uncharted land of scrub brush and defensive native peoples. They also still had the Canadian territories and the major exports of wood, furs and sugar could be gotten all over the Empire, so it was simpler to cut them off than to make that level of investment for so little return.
I found a link to this video in the comment section of an Assassin's Creed 3 video with nothing but Paul Revere and honestly I am so grateful for that person-
unfortunately, many native english speakers butcher french words. Often they try to sound more educated or I don't know what, but the opposite happens. I also witnessed it with Stephen Colbert or some musicians for example ...
Jordan Quiles but French is kinda different because of its history. Most french words that are absorbed by English are preferably pronounced the french way, because that's how an educated English aristocrats and diplomats would've done, since french was the Lingua Franca of Europe.
I'm glad that my 7th grade Social Studies teacher didn't teach us myths about this part. What this video was showing to us was also what my teacher taught us. He also showed us the same map that the video was showing and that there were different people passing on the message instead of just one.
Awkward I'm 15 and a sophomore we learned this in school so no not everyone was just ignorant to this in fact my teacher made the same joke about them being British so he said regulars sooooo yaa
carti great for you, but the fact is many people do learn this. You teacher didn't half ass, but majority do. Just because you learned something, does not mean everyone did.
pnasty SaVage explain? Why not? I did some google research and this is very accurate, the reason why Paul revere was famous is because a poet used his name in the 1860s.
Exactly. Paul Revere wasn't just some random guy doing this, he would be a normal soldier doing his job as a member of the Sons of Liberty. He and the other riders did their job and while Paul got captured, his mission was technically a success as he was able to alert his allies.
Paul Revere actually became famous because someone wrote a poem that became famous and none of the other rider's name's rhymed well enough
If that is true, then why didn't Adam say anything about it? Cuz he is a dick, that is why
@@spelareNR14 He couldn't fit in I guess.
Nisse Elmquist maybe he did 'cause this ain't the thing
@@spelareNR14 More like because his research team didn't supply this for him.
I actually came down to the comments just to point out this same fact. I was surprised Adam didn't mention it. Glad someone else knew that one as well.
I live in Concord! My family often goes walking past Paul Reveres capture site. The revolution was a large part of our curriculum in school and we were taught that Paul Revere likely said "The redcoats are coming" or "The lobster backs are coming" since those were both common nicknames for the British soldiers at the time.
Indeed. Regulars, Red Coats, Lobster backs...all those woulda been the more likely thing that he was taught about.
Dude is it true their are Irish in boston
I remember watching Liberty's Kids on PBS back in the day and even they showed that it wasn't just Revere and they said stuff like "the regulars are coming"
Does that make the reveloutionaries crabs
@Aaron Joy's music & books That's Mandela effect!
*someone does something important in history*
Adam: I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career
You speak words of wisdom, egg
More like:
*someone does something important in history*
Adam: ACTUALLY...
I've never seen a more perfect meme...bravo
Well...Yeah? its literally in the Title.
No its "im about to correct ur whole carrier"
Adam failed to mention my favorite rider: Sybil Ludington. She alerted militia forces in villages of Putnam County, New York and Danbury, Connecticut, to the approach of the British regular forces on April 26, 1777. That’s more than twice the distance attributed to Revere.
Yes! I hate when she is left out.✌🖖
Probably because most credible historians don't believe it happened, this story actually seems to be more exaggerated that Paul Reveres.
My fifth grade class did a play on the American Revolution and we had this great joke where Sybil (upset that she’s not as known as Paul Revere) tried to convince Henry Longfellow to make a poem about her, only for him to struggle coming up with a compelling rhyme. Of course, the History Police then show up to arrest our host George Washington because Longfellow wasn’t born during the Revolution, and they even revoked George’s “dramatic license”
I think what needs to be remembered is that the revolution was largely about economic interest. The famous tax on tea was not really a tax in the modern sense, it was a monopoly imposed on the colonies by the east India company. The merchant class and craftsmen, which included people like Revere and John Hancock, opposed this because it harmed them economically (Hancock was the richest man in Boston and personally lost a lot of money from the cheap tea being sent to the colonies by the East India company, and many other merchants and craftsmen wanted protective tariffs to help their growing industries). These people were mostly in the north, hints why the rebellion began in Boston.
Also important to note is that the British weren't being greedy like we paint them as. They fought a very expensive war and felt that it only fair the colonists who benefited from it the most should help pay for it. Colonists were in fact paying much lower taxes than citizens back in England even with the initial taxes Parliament imposed, but the New England colonies were going through financial troubles so the colonies were hurt by taxes that would have otherwise been harmless, not to mention it really started to get colonists mad about having no say in Parliament.
But still that didn't directly lead to the Revolution, that was a last resort after all other attempts to negotiate failed.
@@ichijofestival2576 When you look at both sides, it feels more like a tragedy that it happened. The British were trying to raise money in a way they thought would be harmless, not realizing the impacts their actions would have on colonies across the Atlantic because they chose the exact wrong time to implement them.
The colonies pushed back out fear this violation of their rights would be the first of many, but their resistance to the government authority caused the British to fear a rebellion. Their push back when the colonies were just trying to appeal through legal means help create a real rebellion.
The entire war started because a bunch of things all happened at once that on their own would have either been harmless, or at least not had a huge impact on the colonies as a whole.
@@dragonstormx That's basically a lot of history in a nutshell. Many tragedies or even good things happen because of the right (or wrong) combination of factors happened around the same time.
@@dragonstormx it was a snowball effect.
And both parties were convinced the other wanted to harm them
@@jacques4703 Yup.
They don’t mention it here, but Revere became so famous and associated with the ride because Longfellow wrote a poem about him in 1860 that credited him with the whole mission
najhoant They mention it in the full episode, though... along with Paul Revere’s actual accomplishments.
they do mention it though later
Haven't seen the episode, but I get the feeling they mention that later. It's not like Adam to skip over the explanation of why a myth persists.
I was about to ask why Revere was the one who became the historical figure, but I decided to check the comments first. Thanks!
*watching this on a phone*
"Put down your smartphones"
K bye
Samy Khadre it was made for TV
I thought that too.
The Manan J lol
The Manan J j
0:03
Also I was about to say the same
This story might be even better than the original. A silent work of a well organized army, spreading quickly the news about the incoming rivals
Indeed. The original was good for a poem, but this has something a lot more interesting story of Paul and the others having a well coordinated event and planning. So really this isn't RUINING Paul REvere's image...it just makes it less silly of a way to think that he was able to go do all this stuff in a single night. It actually shows how smart the Revolutionary army was.
Dejay Page Finally someone who respects Paul Revere and history.
Jack Archer when you gotta form a plan with the squad
That’s a very good point! I agree.
0:00 "Put down your smartphones-"
Me, watching this on my smartphone: You're the boss.
*Watches on flip phone* Checkmate, BuD
It’s because it’s a tv show
2:55 Apparently every British girl wants to be tracer.
I'M ALREADY TRACER
Tony Flamingo What about Widowmaker!
JFK I'm already widowmaker
Haha shut up
Yeh also she's Australian apparently
What Paul Revere should be remembered for was his contribution as a silversmith. He engraved a famous depiction of the "Boston Massacre."
Narrator: “put down your cell phones and watch”
Me: *puts down cellphone*
Narrator: *silence*
Me: “oh right I’m watching this on a phone”
I was gonna type that then I saw this
Stole my joke 2 years ago
That me all right
I was thinking the same thing
Adam you translated to animated quite well.
True
Pff, this guy thinks he's ruining everything for me when actually he's just feeding me knowledge and information and making me smarter!
And usually it's not anything surprising, like finding out history is twisted to be more palatable? SHOCKER. We literally see that happening right now. I like knowing the truth. I think it's sad how upset some people get. Finding out you had the wrong information shouldn't cause cognitive dissonance but it seems like it does for people who just can't accept that much of what we're told is a lie 🤷🏻♀️
@@LunarEleven It's always hard to accept reality when you've belived something for so long, not always easy for some people to change their minds
Welcome to the club
Adam uno reverse
I absolutely love this new style of Adam Ruins Everything. Amazing. Keep on doing it this way, please.
“Put down your smartphone” but I’m using my smartphone to watch this video
You do know that this is made for TV show audience not for RUclips right? CH is just promoting ARE on its RUclips channel
Memo Memo doesnt change much.
The real story is much better there.. more boring and logical in ways, since it's not out oif the ordinary for them.. but one special hero, is too movie-like which makes it even more boring and annoying to listen to. Seeing a proper functioning plan with many riders and secrecy, is far more interesting I think. Even if it is more logical and less obnoxious.
Agreed.
Most of what Adam said here is bullshit or half truths
I'm kind of disappointed they didn't mention Sybil Ludington. I haven't seen the full episode, so I don't know if she appears in it or not, but it's still a cool story. Basically, a teenage girl did almost the exact same thing as Revere, except for longer and by herself.
I was about to say that! She could have at least gotten a mention.
Serena Koehler Well, like I said, she might've been mentioned, but I would understand if she wasn't. She might've been cut for time, or otherwise looked over in favor of facts that discredit what happened directly, rather than discredit the fact that what Revere did was unique.
There is a statue of Sybil Ludington not far from where I grew up in upstate New York, so I've known about her for quite some time! The statue always looked like it was foaming at the mouth, though, so when I was young I was convinced that she was just some crazy girl who rode around on horseback and hit people with a stick.
Suho1004 niiiiiice.
well he did talk about a slave who could read & write who went undercover in the british army to learn their plans & eventually won freedom for all his help
“You’re gonna tell me you’re not French with hair and clothes like that?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I love French jokes, but they annoy the crap out of my French roommate XD
Speaking as a European with a genuine interest in history: I had never heard of Paul Revere before this video.
Regulars? So 18 century way of saying normies.
yeah I was going to say it was probably short for 'regulators'
@@ichijofestival2576 Oh boy I just love getting destroyed on the internet, great stuff.
At least they are not weebs
XD okay
Iriako Ishikawa intellectual attacking?
Even outside archer Cryil Figgis can't catch a break.
Andrew Carrillo lol 😂😂😂
at at least dr. spaceman is doing something else
Andrew Carrillo I knew it was him
Paul Revere is my favorite Assassin’s Creed character
TO THE RIGHT CONNOR
Yes! This is exactly where we need to be!
SirBlot lol, I didn’t even see the movie. I’m talking about Assassin’s Creed 3 (the videogame).
That entire sequence made me want to kill myself
Boots Sheck YES
DOES ANYONE THINK THE NARRATOR SOUNDS LIKE JERRY FROM RICK AND MORTY!?!?!?
UPDATE: he is
I think the little jingle at the end sounds like the luftbaloon song
So now Jerry is helping Morty with his history project?
Wow, now that you say it, image if this WAS Jerry helping Morty. It would be so awesome
Yeah and Rick shouted at Jerry
Imagine that
he sounds exactly like jerry
JkMusic Thats because it IS Jerry
I could listen to Chris Parnell narrate funny things all day long. I love his voice!
“Put down your smartphones-“
Me: I don’t know man, seems pretty counterintuitive to me.
If i put down my phone i cant watch this video
Hawichii yes you can just put your face over the screen
It was filmed for TV
This video is for computers and phones th
There was also a young woman named Sybil Ludington, the 16-year-old girl who rode forty miles on horseback through the Hudson Highlands (on a stormy night, no less!) to muster the militia in defense of Danbury. She out rode all the men. Then was personally thanked by General Washington.
If you want a true contribution from Paul Revere...He opened up the first ever copper rolling mill, and even effectively made the first currency for the new free world...contributions that were WAY more helpful than his one failed ride
I like this. Small corrections to historical inaccuracies, rather than broad (and frankly, a bit misleading) corrections to large fields of knowledge.
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But... but... 'merica.
SilentReflection101
*United States
Murica!*
soon to be *United Soviet Socialist North America or USSNA, snappy.
SilentReflection101 America is a continent duh!😒
Well.. can't argue with that.
Although Russia are capitalist, just a really dodgy version of it lol.
They are also very far off of Social Democracy, which is what people on the left like Bernie want. Not to be confused with straight up Socialism (which is shit). Communism is a whole different thing.
If you want a special midnight rider that deserves Revere's notoriety, you could always celebrate Sybil Ludington, who rode from 9 pm until dawn on unpaved roads through a fierce storm to summon her father's troops to fight back against the burning of Danbury, Connecticut 😀
Prior to that, she apparently saved her father from capture at the hands of the British using Home Alone-style illusions in the windows to fool soldiers that a whole militia was in her house.
“Put down your phones” that’s where it all ended
Yeeeeeeeeeess!!! Adam Ruins Everything is back!!!!!☺☺☺☺☺☺☺😆😆😆
this little homie not quite, it's more of a historical spin off
this little homie You could see the whole episode on the channel. Like 22 frickin' minutes long!
This made me so happy - and enlightened! Love the animations too, it's great. Well done ♥
Oh Jerry found a job finally. CH Narrator
This is a repost, the vid is from Adam's tvshow. Not CH
awww someone already said my thing that's too bad. Also thank you for the clarification. Super excited for more content from Adam!
he already had a job as a quack doctor in new york
"Revere didn't go yelling! That would get him captured!"
Me: "...uh, actually, Revere was..."
"Revere and Dawes were caught and thrown in jail after warning Lexington!"
Me: "there it is!"
@Warlightor Or "Redcoats" probably would have sufficed.
History: Exists
Adam: I'm gonna *correct* this mans whole career
Uhm... Ahcktually..
It’s ahkchually, ahkchually
The show in a nutshell.
Is the narrator jerry from rick and morty?
Chris Parnell, Yup.
Yes, or the narrator from The Midnight Ruin of Paul Revere
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought that lmao
Bob Boby LOL, the role i referred to is actually more famous, and from a better series than Jerry from R&M, but w/e
Yhea, I watch Archer, It's really good, sad that its ending soon, though.
Oh my god, do I love Adam.
Well take one for the team and marry him. He'll chew your ear off about marriage being a money making bullshit thing and you'll live happily ever after
Memes and Hearthstone of course he wouldn’t.. because he already did.
No
I can't watch this without thinking Jerry Smith is narrating
Love Chris's enthusiastic voice
I'm about to show this to my teacher who taught this yesterday and speak truth in her face and she even dares to make to get me expelled I'm going to say y'all can't handle the truth
Dew it!
Ian Bailey I did
and?
actuall cancer it’s true I was the face
I just got expelled
Fun fact the lanterns where hung in Christ church not north church
Jacob Rengen - I thought they were hung by the chimneys with care?
ElyssaAnderson that was ‘‘twas the night before Christmas not the midnight ride of Paul rever
They were clearly hung in a god church.
Guess I'll Die the name of the church was Old Christ Church
But it was totally a god church.
Aw no mention of Sybil Ludington?
my social studies teacher actually cleared up all these misconceptions in our american revolution unit this year
Yoshieclipse Social Studies? Why that class? What do they teach in that?
James CyberLink they teach history
I love this 😂 it’s great. If you have watched Liberty Kids this is quite the nice refresher and it kinda makes you feel really smart
wooow a real history more awesome when use animated as the background. Thank so munch man
I thought this myth was already busted and it was common knowledge?
Only to those more intimate with American Revolution, to people like me it's just an easy myth to sorta-remember and know nothing about.
Jari Olavi Lipponen oh i can understand that but i mean common sense would dictate that one man alone could do that is kind of preposterous given the technology of the time
I mean it was still taught to me even in the 8th grade
Considering that the basic Revere -myth is about horse riding trough Boston it's sort of acceptable as long as you don't think about it. To be honest the only reason I even remember the guy is because he was one of the possible founding fathers in Sid Meyer's Colonization.
@LagiNaLangAko23 "You'd be surprised how uncommon common knowledge can be." ...I feel you're quoting something. Are you quoting something?
Imagine if the British caught Paul before he could deliver the warning .
Betreyal Justice then all the others would have warned most militias without him.
Annie Beguhl yup you are right I wish the British had won bahahahahha
Betreyal Justice they kicked our ass in 1812 to prove a point.
Alex Gregg all hail the British empire
If everyone was actually British why did the settlers rebel against the British empire.
But than why does Paul Revere get all the credit? I felt like this video was lacking explanation unlike other Adam's videos.
A poet from the 1860s used his name when describing the success of the mission so basicly he became the poster boy for the midnight ride and after hundreds of year people just credited him with doing 100% of the work.
there is an explanation in the full episode
the poem referring to this whole event mentions Paul revere
Essentially, the event was being retold in a poem in order to stir up patriotism during the Civil War and poems tend to embellish & eschew facts.
When I was younger I had to do a report on Paul Revere oh the memories....
2:30 Adam is right. I seen and episode of Fetch with Ruff Ruffman about Paul Revenue and he actually said “The Red Coats are coming” which they’re actually called the Regulars. Also at 3:19 in the episode it says he got captured which explains why he can’t finish his midnight ride.
Interrupts the narrator,
Alexander Ruins Things.
Say finna woke again, I dare you.
Me me big ruiner!
Harry Potter fan Girl wait, does that phrase mean something?
KevSB07 It's a refference to Jacksfilms
Btd Pro Nooo... It's a trading thing, he puts some of us in the video and let's us make fun of him!
Addition to that is a girl completed the entire ride that apparently revere did.
What's her name? Sounds interesting...
Unnatural09 that was a different attack
This was how I learned it:
We were taught that he said “The Regulars are out!”
We already knew other people were doing the same thing
We knew who Dr. Warren was
We knew he was captured
And that’s all we learned. We didn’t know that he whispered, and we didn’t know he was captured with another dude
Cryolophosaurus ellioti I wish they taught me like that.
Same. A lot of these videos I see debunking myths that supposedly everybody believes just end up telling me the version that I was taught in school.
This is all put together so well, great animation CH THANKAYOUUUUUUU
"Put down your smartphones"
Me: *is watching on my phone*
*confused screaming*
I'm glad to see William Dawes getting his due.
Yaaay! Adam ruins my favorites poem!
I read Glenn Beck's book on the subject. It says the same thing and came out long before this. Sure the myth is played down but that doesn't diminish the bravery and dedication of the Sons of Liberty. If anything it shows how intelligent and determined the Patriots were in fighting the crown
Phil Martinez Isn't Glenn Bleck the Lunatic who even got fired from Fox? 🤔
Phil Martinez i completely agree
Been a while but now all I’m picturing is Jerry sitting in front of morty telling this story. Perfect voice for this
Was i supposed to get an ad for Adam Ruins Everything on this video of Adam Ruins Everything? Because i did
When you read the first question on a quiz 3:21
Narrator: Put down your smartphones
Me: Okay but now I can’t watch the video
I thought it was the red coats are coming, not regulars.
Glass Eating Junkie It was most likely both. But Regulars? Really?
I SWEAR I CANT GET ENOUGH OF THE ANIMATED VERSIONS OF ADAM!!!!!
The best out of context quote in adam ruins everything
" Stop talking in third person and go to sleep. "
Opens with “put down your smartphones”
Is watching on smartphone
Narrator: put your phones away
Me: okay *turns phone off*
Narrator:
(Insert pikachu meme)
"put down your smartphones..." But I'm watching on my phone :(
Justin Moutzouris same
"And because we hate tea for some reason" i died in that part😂😂😂😂
I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THAT VOICE! Man, Chris Parnell really gets around.
Can't wait for Dogs in Space season 2 by the way!
George Washington's face though!
"Put down your cellphone-"
Okay. *stops watching video*
I love how most of this was taught similarly in my middle school (im currently 16). Shows real progress in clearing up propaganda out of American history. (We learn about Rosalind Franklin too)
Well, there's one thing Paul Revere should be known for paper currency, gunpowder manufacturing, and copper roll.
Being a silversmith does come in handy.
Thought him being the center was result of him taking the credit as more rememberable member.
I see this as a historical act of teamwork. Plus, it kinda makes sense; I don't know any single horses that ride all the way from Boston to Concord.
0:25 He skipped leg day
lol
Wait, so then how did he become famous again? Adam, we need answers!
ADAM!
I read in the comments on the video truTV posted that it was a famous American poet who wrote about how brave his ride was. Don’t remember which one, but you should be able to Google from here.
Annie Beguhl thanks!
Are you telling me AC3 was not facts
AC3 is based on popular facts. Also even in AC3 he said ' The regulars are marching for Hexington and Concord' and he did it in private, not yelling. So they got 2 out of 3 facts correct.
Priyank Jain I really hate it when people take me seriously when I am joking
BOSS, you're pretty good.
and he wasn't alone... you know... you were there...
If you read the British guy's notes in AC3, he pretty much stomps on the romanticized myths of the American Revolution.
There's a point where he notes that Washington messed up the crossing of the Brandywine, and there were enough British troops present that they could have crushed the rebellion then and there, but the British messed up too, so the revolutionaries fluked their way through it.
And also where American pomp paints it as a crushing rout and defeat of the British, it's pointed out that, had they really wanted to, the British could have brought the full force of their colonial armies and completely crushed the rebellion, but they treated it as a business decision and wrote it off, as, at the time, America was largely a vastly uncharted land of scrub brush and defensive native peoples. They also still had the Canadian territories and the major exports of wood, furs and sugar could be gotten all over the Empire, so it was simpler to cut them off than to make that level of investment for so little return.
I found a link to this video in the comment section of an Assassin's Creed 3 video with nothing but Paul Revere and honestly I am so grateful for that person-
My great great grandpa was one of those people. So yeah... just wanted to share that and feel special.
Damn you butchered raison d’etre
He did say he wasn't French?
unfortunately, many native english speakers butcher french words. Often they try to sound more educated or I don't know what, but the opposite happens. I also witnessed it with Stephen Colbert or some musicians for example ...
CH has done a video mocking that very tendency: /watch?v=fKGoVefhtMQ
Jordan Quiles but French is kinda different because of its history. Most french words that are absorbed by English are preferably pronounced the french way, because that's how an educated English aristocrats and diplomats would've done, since french was the Lingua Franca of Europe.
I think that was part of the joke
All I know about the American revolution is from Hamilton, cause I'm British and we get taught British history
But the Revolution is part of British history...kinda.
Then why was Paul Revere's ride so Famous in the first place?
Dark Reavenger I believe it was because his name and only his name was used in a poem for rhyming purposes.
You know what would be funny. A crossover between Adam ruins everything and WTF 101
3:55 Actually, William Dawes ended up escaping with Samuel Prescott, but Paul Revere was the only one who got captured.
0:04 Wait u want me to not watch this?
I've been to all of those cities...
In Fallout4 xD
And Assassin's Creed 3
I thought fallout 4 as well
America's founding is inspiring
I'm glad that my 7th grade Social Studies teacher didn't teach us myths about this part. What this video was showing to us was also what my teacher taught us. He also showed us the same map that the video was showing and that there were different people passing on the message instead of just one.
0:04 "Pur down your smartphone and let me..."
Me: I'm watching this in a phone
Tracer with two pistols
Awkward I'm 15 and a sophomore we learned this in school so no not everyone was just ignorant to this in fact my teacher made the same joke about them being British so he said regulars sooooo yaa
carti great for you, but the fact is many people do learn this. You teacher didn't half ass, but majority do. Just because you learned something, does not mean everyone did.
So...should I really believe everything that was told here?
SegaDisney No
Their sources are in the right corner. Even then as someone who studies the revolution a fair bit, this is pretty accurate.
pnasty SaVage explain? Why not? I did some google research and this is very accurate, the reason why Paul revere was famous is because a poet used his name in the 1860s.
Exactly. Paul Revere wasn't just some random guy doing this, he would be a normal soldier doing his job as a member of the Sons of Liberty. He and the other riders did their job and while Paul got captured, his mission was technically a success as he was able to alert his allies.
The Pixelated DIYer
Wow, so basically everything we learned in History class about Paul Revere was a lie, lol.
"Put down your smart phone" as I watch this in my smartphone 😂
Have you guys ever realized how hard it is to pee your pants on command?