Getting back to the first post and topic of this thread, turns out Sarah's comments were correct. Not only did she's defend her comments over the weekend, historians looked into the issue and turns out what she was talking about was absolutely correct.

"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."

Paul Revere even wrote about it himself.