Loved the video, for me being a person living in NZ its hard to understand what really happened at lexinton and concord but this video put it perfectly for me welldone. Also your content has that quality and effort that can be clearly seen and feels like it has tints of epic history tv. you have definitely earned a sub from me.
Definitely a well made video. The detail, unbiased delivery, and voicework on top of the map animation and pictures were fantastic. Definitely going to be watching what you have when I find the time.
So glad you reacted to this channel! To show exactly how Washington “started” the French & Indian War, check out Warhawk’s new series on that war which starts with that battle.
If you are actually interested in history don't let other people put you down. I think more kids should learn about history because (some) teachers can really just be boring about the subject and make kids disinterested in it.
man you are killing me, i sit down to watch 1 30 min video of yours and next thing i know it''s 8 videos and 4 hrs later. But seriously your videos are absolutely the best
An aspect of this conflict that is often overlooked:- The Patriot movement was founded in parliament back in 1725 as a branch of the Whig Party. At first they were concerned with ending political corruption, but later they pushed for Civil Liberties, a fuller democracy and Free Trade. The conflict between Patriot and the ruling Tory Party spilled out of parliament and on to the streets. The period 1763 to 1775 was a time of political rioting. My home town of Rotherham Yorkshire was Patriot. A local Solider and Member of Parliament Lord Effingham, built in 1773 a monument to the Boston Tea Party, that still dominates the town to this day. Another local man was Lord Rockingham. In 1782 Rockingham was invited to become Prime Minister, he agreed on the condition that he be allowed to set America free! These men did not want to loose the colonies, it was just that they believed that all Englishmen, even American ones had the democratic right to chose their own governance. Following Lexington and Concord, Lord Rockingham’s supporters had a collection to support the families of those Americans killed. The money was sent to Ben. Franklin. During the first year of the war British Patriots fed political intelligence to an organisation called ‘The Committee of Secret Correspondence’ in Philadelphia. Today there are several Cities and Counties named for British Patriots such as Effingham and Rockingham. The Patriot Party later renamed itself The Liberal Party and so still exists in parliament to this day. I wrote a little book on all this during lockdown and correspond with history groups in the US. Last year I visited the excellent Museum of The.Revolutionary War in Philadelphia. They have a display case with artefacts of these British Patriots, so maybe the story is now becoming better known.
The tavern off the green in lexington is named Buckmans Tavern. Been there a few times. Lexington and Concord are great places to visit. Munroes Tavern is another great place . Its located on the road coming into lexington green. The british stopped there to gather themselves
We live only about 1hr from these battlefields and were just out there a few weeks ago as the GF has never been there. This Friday we are off to Plymouth for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. My town is the scene of some F&I fighting during King Philip's war and the Mohawk Trail with Old Deerfield down the road.
Growing up in Western Mass, our school history curriculum is heavy on Plymouth, early colonial times, King Philips War and on the lead up to including the revolution. Not so much on Civil War.
Oh and it's fascinating to learn that Quebec and Nova Scotia were invited to the first assembly. A lot of Americans tend to not realize that the colonies included Canada and Royalists fled to it.
Another way in which the 7 Years/American Indian War led to the American Revolution was that by removing the French presence in Quebec (they still held the lands that would become the Louisiana Purchase to the West), the Americans felt less need for the British army to protect their Colonies and so were even less prepared to pay for it.
The man who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was actually the grandson of a man who despised Paul Revere. Longfellow's grandfather, Brigadier General Peleg Wadsworth took part in the Penobscot Expedition to Maine alongside Revere's artillery and the Continental Marines. Revere was hesitant to use his artillery in the engagements with the Highlanders in Penobscot Bay, and the whole expedition was a complete disaster for the Continentals; Wadsworth had to high-tail through the Maine countryside to safety back in Boston. Revere was eventually dismissed from the militia due to cowardice and disobedience. In writing "Paul Revere's Ride", Longfellow effectively cemented the legacy of the man his grandfather detested.
Cool to see my ancestor John Parker featured in the video. Fun fact, one of his grandsons (an indirect ancestor of mine) was Theodore Parker, a radical abolitionist in the 19th century who was a member of the Secret Six. So the Parker family played a role in events that would be a catalyst for both the American Revolution and the American Civil War
I remember once being told (and I wish I researched it in depth) that Benjamin Franklin’s son backed the British because they had appointed him to a government job. So that was father vs son as well.
Washington may not have been the greatest military tactician, but he is to this day the greatest spymaster in American history. How he revolutionized military espionage with the Culper Ring is one of the reasons the US won its independence
If the monarchy had been more powerful at this time they could have established a separate parliament in a colony once it reached a certain size and organization. This is how Canada worked from 1867.
What often gets lost in the telling of the Revolution is that there was sympathy for the colonists in Parliament. The Revolutionary War was not a very popular war in Parliament, especially as the war dragged on. It is analogous to what happened in Congress during the Vietnam War. In fact, there are many similarities between these two conflicts.
3 news stories that made the British unpopular while the 7 years war was ongoing. 1. Anglican Archbishop of Massachusetts. In 1763, the Archbishop of Canterbury floated the idea to the English Parliament of imposing an Archbishop on Massachusetts and forcing Massachusetts to pay for it. This was never enacted but the fear drove Massachusetts to distrust Parliament. 2. Trade In 1760, Prime Minister William Pitt tried to crack down on smuggling. Francis Bernard, the governor of Massachusetts, attempted to enforce this crackdown but he was thwarted at every turn by jury nullification, eloquent defense attorneys, like James Otis, and mob intimidation. In 1762, Bernard backs down. 3. Parson's Cause: Every year Virginia paid each Anglican minister the cash equivalent of 16,000 pounds of Tabaco annual according to a 1748 law passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses and approved by the King's privy council. Colonial currencies were wildly unstable so it was important to peg the minister's payment to a stable commodity. Non-Anglican ministers were not paid by Virginia. During years when the price of tobacco was low, the House of Burgesses gave the ministers a little extra cash. In 1755, the price of tobacco soared. To avoid a fiscal catastrophe, the House of Burgesses decided to pay the ministers with a conversion rate of 2 pence/lb of tobacco which was well below market rate. This was still 4 times that a lower class laborer would make. In 1758, the price of tobacco again rose and again the House of Burgesses decided to pay the ministers less than they were owed by law. The Anglican ministers appealed to the King and the King's privy council responded by saying that the Anglican ministers must be paid the market rate of tobacco as it stipulated in the original 1748 law which Virginia had already pass. Virginia could not change the law without royal approval. Anglican ministers began to sue the state of Virginia for damages. However, the juries and judges in Virginia were widely sympathetic to the House of Burgesses and engaged in a massive campaign of Jury Nullification. A lot of Anglican priests were stiffed. In 1763, a young lawyer named Patrick Henry gets a gig defending Virginia. He made a pretty salacious speech in which he claimed the Anglican ministers were greedy grifters and he accused the King of being a tyrant for siding with his own Anglican ministers. Despite breaking multiple laws, Patrick Henry was not punished for criticizing the king and even celebrated.
10:04 how my college professor basically put it is that the British took the colonies out for lunch at a fancy French restaurant and asked the colonies to cover the tip in a snoody way. They argue, the colonies eventually flip the table and leave the restaurant.
