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Found out recently my ancestor (Hessian) fought in this battle. Afterwards escaping like so many did when in Albemarle Barracks in Virginia and thankfully established a family in what is now West Virginia.
Do one on the French vs British aspect of the American civil war. Arguably it was that rivalry that secured the future of the US. That and the good shots of the Rebels 😂
General Nicholas Herkimer and the Tryon County Militia are true patriots and revered heroes to this day in the Mohawk Valley. There’s an excellent book written by Boonville, NY native, Walter D. Edmund’s called Drums Along the Mohawk which was also made into the 1939 movie drama of the same title. General Nicholas Herkimer is portrayed in the movie along with other true families such as the Weavers and Reals. Great movie staring a young Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. Excellent history video.
Washington was outmanoeuvred on numerous occasions and lost to Howe and co time and time again.....but ultimately without striking an early end to the conflict, unfortunately it was a lost cause for the British
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world." - Emerson, Concord Hymn
My 4th great-grandfather, Caleb Haskell, from Newburyport, Massachusetts, was there in Captain Samuel Ward's Company in Lt. Col. Christopher Greene's Battalion, part of Colonel Arnold's force. He had been at Cambridge with Colonel Moses Little's Regiment since the beginning of May and signed up for the Quebec Expedition in September. He kept a diary which has been published and it has been quoted a couple of times when the authors are talking about the smallpox in the army. Caleb got smallpox and missed the assault. His enlistment expired on Dec. 31, along with the rest of his company, and in the middle of January they were put under house arrest and court-martialed and threated with whipping if they didn't reenlist. Caleb finally got a pass to leave Quebec at the beginning of May, just hours before the reinforced British force attacked. It took him the rest of the month to get back home to Newburyport. He traveled up the St. Lawrence to the Richelieu, then to Crown Point and across Vermont down the Crown Point Military road.
Basically, the revolting colonists saw the opportunity to steal a continent, and butcher it's inhabitants, and then enslave black people to do the heavy lifting.... and that is what they did...
I live in between Saratoga and Ticonderoga (between Fort Edward and Fort Ann) and it is still incredible to me, to drive by Fort Ticonderoga or the battlefield in Saratoga or any other number of historical markers in the area, and think about what the area must have looked like back then and what it must have been like to live in that time. Sadly, it seems likely that most Americans today would collapse under the every-day pressures of life these people faced.
According to a study among Militarty Historians, Saratoga was the most important, not the largest, but most important battle in the history of Military warfare as it let America become a country..that changed the world. "The Generals of Saratoga" is an excellent book.
CANADIENS means French Canadiens as in Canada the British were called les Anglais, so the Amricans were beaten by French Canadians after they showed their RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN MONTREAL you can be sure the French Canadians killed as many Americans as they could.
My 9th grandfather was a wagon master at Brandywine in Washington’s army. His horses were shot from under him, and he ran 45 miles home to Lancaster. 😮
If Arnold had gotten his wish and been killed at Saratoga, during this brilliant victory, millions of us would have graduated from Benedict Arnold high schools and colleges. Battleships and carriers would be named after him, as would forts and bases, and he'd probably be on our money, too. If not for that one little thing he did!
lol dude the Indians were every bit a brutal as they were described, its really silly to hear you parroting lies while teaching history. Maybe spend that time on history people actually should know like the battle of bennigton.
Hello, I’m hoping you might tell me the name of the series/movie you are using to illustrate your video. I’d love to watch it from start to finish. Thank you
I live in the northern Merrimac valley in Massachusetts not far from the battlefields I have been to Concord many times when you walk across the Old North bridge onto the battlefield where the shot heard around the world was fired you can almost hear the noise of the battle that started the revolution and the birth of America
If you read books about Saratoga, you learn that guard duty at night was when the German mercenaries would desert. Soon Burgoyne had to have British troops guard the German troops at night. Then some of the British troops joined in fleeing themselves. Not too hard to figure out that Europeans seeing the freedom and liberty Americans had, wanted it for themselves. At the end of the war 1/3rd of the remaining German troops refused going back home to Germany.
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Help me out here, I'm pulling this from many years ago. I read that after the Rev. War, the French had to make a concession and the Brits had a choice between French holdings in the spice rich Caribbean or Canada. There were some in the UK who said that if the Brits chose control of Canada it would remove the threat of the French/Indians to the west of the Am. colonies and given the astonishing demographic increase in the colonies, eventually they would want independence.
My 4 great grandfather, David Baxter, was a Sargent in the King’s Royal Regiment of New York. He received Crown land in Bertie township for his loyalty to the crown.
From USA here. British could NEVER have won for the same reason the USA couldn't win in Viet Nam, the French monarchy defeat the French revolution,, or their colony or Algeirs, etc. The revolutionaries were fighting for freedom, the British were fighting for money. Also, British Command was totally ineffective due to distance, etc. The Continental Army could always call up soldiers from the militias to take advantage of tactical opportunities. America also used propaganda vey effective (the crimes of the British and all soldiers were read the writings of Thomas Paine).
I wonder what would have happened had Britain won. Well given Britains behaviour towards its other colonies we have good evidence. N American would undoubtedly have prospered. It would have had a greater number of settlers from Britain. The railways would have been built earlier. Cities would have had clean water and sewage earlier and deep water harbours line N Orleans would have been improved earlier. There would not have been a Civil War. Slavery would have been banned earlier, not just in N America but also in the Caribbean. Britain would have had a few more men to fight Napoleon. But the big difference for Britain militarily would have been the large number of troops that would have been brought into WW1 and WW2 from the beginning that would have ended both those wars years earlier saving millions of lives and possibly even preventing at least one of them. N America would have been independence peacefully and would have had less guns on the streets. So was it a worthwhile war for N America and Britain… 🤔you decide 🤷🏻♂️
If an election or a war was 40% for, 20% against, and 40% undecided. The for is going to win, especially if logistics are also in favor of the for. If resupply on one side is days and the other months, you're spread to thin and you're going to lose. The only thing colonialism ever spread was culture and language, it was bound to fail politically and militarily.
