What is the story about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?

Visiontoamerica.org    Dumbing Down of America continues and the media are a bunch of idiots as per the norm....Over the past week or so, the MSM has been all over Sarah Palin for claiming that Paul Revere’s ride had been to warn the British that they weren’t going to take away the weapons of armed Americans. They called her stupid. Over the following days the stupidity of the media became evident. Not only was Sarah Palin right, but the media (and most schools) view Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about Paul Revere’s ride as history and that’s basically it. That’s not to say Longfellow’s poem is wrong, but when there is a primary source to view from the man who actually rode the ride, that trumps the secondary account. There is a letter that Paul Revere wrote in 1798 that details the entire ride and in it he mentions warning the British that they wouldn’t be able to disarm the Americans.

He was an American Patriot during the American Revolution and was used as an express rider to carry news and messages to New York and Philadelphia.In April 1775, he undertook the "midnight ride" to warn the people in the Boston area that the British troops were embarking at Boston's harbour bound for invasion.This early warning system alerted the local militia who defeated the British at the ensuing Battle of Lexington Green.

Look it up at wikipedia, Tony.  He was warning the Colonials (Americans) that the Redcoats (British troops) were headed their way.  (Definitely NOT what Sarah Palin said).