This week, Dear Reader, I won’t be posting, as I’m doing research for my next book. I’m staying in the empty apartment of a New York City friend and will be spending all my time here, at the New York Academy of Medicine:
And here, at the New York Public Library. Back next week!
Paul Revere would not have warned the colonists by yelling "The British Are Coming!" That would make no sense, as the colonists considered themselves British, too. He probably shouted "The Regulars Are Out!"