Why did Paul Revere warned the British?

Answer 1

He didn't say "the British are coming!" at all. Technically, the Patriots were still part of the British empire. He knocked on people's doors and said that the British regulars were heading their way.

More importantly, Revere was just one of many Sons of Liberty messengers who engaged in warning rides around that time.

In fact, the guy who actually did the "midnight ride to Concorde" wasn't Revere, it was Samuel Prescott. Revere was actually captured by the British that evening, and his involvement in Patriot courier efforts remained virtually unknown until long after his death.

The poet Longfellow confused things pretending Revere had made the ride, for his story, as part of his intentional effort to take an obscure person from the era and create an artificial legend, something he'd tried repeatedly before, but in this case with the specific intention of rallying support for the Union in the Civil War.

Answer 2

Because the british were hiding waiting to attack them.

Answer 3

he didnt want the british. we warned the other colonists that the bristish were coming.

Answer 4

He didn't he said the "regulars are on the march." Everyone was British in 1775 so it would have been silly to yell "the British are coming."

Answer 5

Cause the British were coming. :D