British Couple Reacts to The American Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2) 

You need to watch American Civil War Oversimplified :)

Thank you both! 😊. Home Free: Do You Hear What I Hear, Full of Cheer (written by bass Tim) and Cold Hard Cash (by tenor Austin) are must watch Christmas videos! 😁

Also as you mentioned the French Revolution. This was based on the fact that the American Revolution succeeded and the pheasants of France were treated like dirt, and constantly taxed to death literally. They took up arms and took care of the aristocracy, however, it kind of got away from them in the end :) Too bad that the people of France don't do the same today with the current Gov.

Millie, defiantly would like you 2 to watch the Civil War oversimplified. It's will teach you a bunch.

Do the real history of Thanksgiving

It's 6 weeks to get from Europe to America and 4 weeks to get from America to Europe.

Yes, one month. He departed on November 1st or 2nd depending on who's records you check. Arrived in Brest, France in December. Then he restocked and went absolutely apeshit. Minimal communication with the Americans, and was pretty much "This is my stomping ground, I'll call you if I need you, which I don't, because I'm the boss"

The fastest speed the US carrier strike group move at is around 30-35 mph. Sail powered ships are around 10mph. Either way it's slow. Even these days. A week to cross the Atlantic would be fast even by modern ship technology.

@@sodblitz3445 Wait, call me an ignorant American but wouldn't that be the same distance either way you started from?

@@zachbocchino5501 no,. leaving Europe to get to America you have to sail down to Portugal and sail across to Florida,. going from America to Europe you sail up to Maine and across to England,. it's called the Atlantic Conveyor,. if you try to do it any other way you'll be sailing against the wind and the ocean currents.

And he’s the *ONLY* actually good president we ever had

As much as I admire Washington a group of American Historians made me realise something. They said they believed when Washington resigned he very much had Cromwell in his thoughts and what happened after Cromwell had defeated a King, he too did not want the same to happen to him or for himself to become another Cromwell. As a Britishman I think it is testament to his Character. Regardless of what he thought the fact he did it his was and rightly so shows who he was overall.

@@packersfanforlife7903 Some said it was because washington was a lover of classical history and wanted to emulate the roman general Cincinnatus, who gave up his dictorial powers back to the senate after defeating the barbarians threatening rome and thats why the US has a two term system.

I wrote a paper on Arnold in college. Arnold's position was not good. His activities in support of the revolution had put him deeply in debt at a time when debtor's prison was a thing. As shown in Oversimplified, he was disrespected and passed over for promotions he badly needed.

@@GregInHouston2 pretty funny then that he would betray the side run by members of a think tank that was strictly opposed to debtors prisons and would later make it a part of the constitution of their new nation.

@@g33xzi11a I don't understand. The Constitution does not abolish debtors' prison. In fact, we still imprison people for debt today. Usually, it is under the guise of contempt of court.

@@GregInHouston2 you can’t be imprisoned for private debt. You can be for debts to the government.

@@GregInHouston2 “debtors prison” only refers to debts due to private creditors.

John Paul Jones was a bad ass! I didn't learn much about him in school but he would've been my choice for an American Hero.

They were right. Not only was he a bad ass, but absolutely INSANE...!!!!

@@paulawilliams3344 "he would've been my choice for an American Hero" Mine, too. I am continually baffled that some American movie company haven't done this guys' story. I think he's more interesting than many of the old west gunslingers immortalized and whitewashed in the movies for a century. Envision this guy crossing 3 thousand miles of ocean in a rinky dink boat then playing hide and seek with the most formidable navy on earth.

Specifically it was meant as a symbol of republicanism, the rejection of monarchy.

Then we returned the favor by giving them the Eiffel Tower

It's on par with Judas as being synonymous with traitor here.

Oh wow aha!

@@TheBeesleys99 Yea, "Benedict Arnold" is even used in rap songs to describe traitors like in this scene from the 2015 music biopic film "Straight Outta Compton". The song heard in the beginning of this clip is a real rap song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ss149jPUX6Q.html ...or in this clip from "Family Guy" @1:15 with the "Eggs Benedict Arnold" joke (a play on the breakfast dish Eggs Benedict) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-24ib5pMkprY.html

soon to be replaced with Biden

@@SoloRenegade Yea, cuz it was Biden who encouraged his supporters to overthrow the democratic process on January 6th, right?? Jackazz

There's a reason why Lafayette Square is right across the street from the White House.

The US military to this day is heavily influenced by the British aristocratic model.

Well the way I see it is that the war wouldn't have been for nothing if he did accept the offer. He still could have been king but could have had some reformed ideas. Like he could have made an American kingdom but chose to have a absolute monarchy rather than a constitutional monarchy, which England had. However, with an absolute monarchy It wouldn't make sense because then the people would have no say. But I mean in a way democracy and a constitutional monarchy are the same in the sense that there is the legislative body of government in this case, we have congress and parliament ( for the UK and US). The leaders of those countries, the King/Queen and the President, have no real or true power over the country. At this point in time a King or Queen is just a very rich family that every one knows and at the time people were told that they are their leaders because of just that purpose, very rich and because they wore a metal hat. Which comes to think about it is kind of crazy. The difference however is that in a democracy, the people have a say in the politics while in a monarchy, whether it be absolute or constitutional, do not. So my point is, and this is just my opinion. The war wouldn't have been fought for nothing if President Washington was King Washington AND if he was a fair king, unlike our previous king. Which people tend to forget that Americans did have a king at one point.

The Magna Carta wasn’t actually all that influential to the final form of government. It’s was mostly the philosophy of members of Pan-European liberal lodges that reflected strongest. British common law was far more important and even that was mostly discarded at the end of the day. The Iroquois Confederacy was probably the most influential government to the newly independent States. The Magna Carta isn’t a liberal or democratic document. It’s a pro-Aristocracy document establishing the balance of power between lesser royalty and the Monarch. It was basically useless for 400 years until the British civil war when it was kinda retconned but still not into something to help the little guy, just rights nobility had against an abusive king. Some contemporary conspiracies about the Magna Carta lined up pretty conveniently with the philosophies of the Liberal enlightenment thinkers and so if anything the misconceptions or misunderstandings about the Magna Carta in its almost mythological form did influence the Americans, but the actual document didn’t. Of course, I don’t think they would have found the actual document all that shocking. Most of the founders would fall nicely into the roles of nobility/peerage or landed gentry and much like the eventual constitution they would have found themselves with special protections not afforded to the Everyman even if a Monarchy had been established.

The US Founders took a lot of inspiration from ancient Rome, hence several naming conventions, like one of the houses of congress being called "The Senate". Representative democracy in the form of a "Republic" is another. Even small things, like Latin phrases, pepper American law and government to this day: "E pluribus unum" (out of many, one) is on the money. They also looked to Thomas Paine, who really did believe in the basic rights of man, or human rights as we know them today. His writings would not only influence the American Constitution, but he would also personally go to France during their revolution to help them write their own. He also inspired Ireland's unsuccessful 1798 revolution with his writings as well.

@@zachbocchino5501 paragraphs are your friend.

Listen, if they had to learn the details of every revolution from all of their past colonies, they wouldn't have time for learning anything else!

They were kind of busy taking over the world and had rebellions in India and a bunch of other places so thats why its not as important its more of a side note European history goes back at least 2 thousand years were American is only about 300

@@jesusbarajas8067 It's a side note that the American colonies fought and won a war of independence and eventually became the lone superpower in the world? It definitely was not a minor thing at the time--England was going to lose all of its land and power in America. You think that wasn't important to King George?

@@crystalanderson1770 It's one of the most important events in British history, but ok...

@@borisbalkan707 they kept Canada 😬 .. not that its not important but at the time their empire was world wide and they constantly had to keep rebellions down and they been at war with the other European powers for ages

descent*

My family is from Kentucky and TN, but we're almost all scottish/irish/british descent. My husband, who is from east TN, is british/french/german descent. Pretty crazy how America became an experiment in mutts :)

Yeeeaaaaaaaa until the Vietnam War and everyone hated France shortly after.

@Justin Phillips I don't want to sound corrective and all that, but if you look it up, Morocco was the very first country to recognize U.S. independence, allowing U.S. Merchant and trade ships to land on their shores. I hope this helps a bit! 😁

I find the Native American culture fascinating and can be often heard listening to Native American music. Hearing wolves and Eagles in it, it just makes me think of the vast expanse of North America. Native American history is just as important as American and Canadian history. Without one you do not have the other. Historical fact should always be seen as truth. Native Americans were mistreated by Colonists while some were seen as equal trading partners. Sadly it is sad what happened and as a Britishman Native American culture is still interesting and like I said, what really makes me long to see America has come from the feelings I get when I listen to Native American music. To see vast open land scapes which were once free of cities and towns and just nature. I love the United States as much as I do Britain to an extent but a part of my heart will always hold Native American culture and history with it. My heart longs for the North American Continent. I've loved it all my life and if not for my life back here in Britain I'd want to live in North America somewhere.

You are 100% accurate and I'm very glad you are willing to tell the truth over any agenda. That takes alot of courage! (Long rant) (I know I shouldn't judge historical events and people though a modern lens, hindsight is only perfect if you have all the information, and we obviously do not.) The fact that Native American tribes fought amongst themselves long before any explorers came to the America should be obvious with the Aztec, Inca, and Myan civilizations (who more advanced than just stone age but i understand the analogy), but people conveniently forget how ruthless they were. That being said when the Explorers like Cortez came though, it was much like the British vs the Zulu. NOT TO MENTION the vast amounts of Native Americans that died from contagious diseases (intended or not) by these colonists & explorers. In some cases 90% or more of whole nations were wiped out and any survivors were lucky to be included in other tribes. It's no wonder they would join with a group of people they saw as being more powerful, they were just trying to survive at this point. They could have joined with other Native American nations, but these Europeans kinda kicked ass. Either group, other Native Americans or Europeans, would treat them a 2nd or 3rd class citizens anyways. Definitely a rock vs hard place choice. My issue is the near (and in some cases complete) annihilation many Native American cultures, because they were stereotyped as "savages". Why? Because to the rich elite, it is more "popular" to subjugate, enslave, and slaughter a person who not as valuable, educated, or refined like them. This became increasingly popular after Darwin's theory reinforced that people with white skin were more evolved or intelligent than those with darker skintones. 🤬 "Why not kill off the less evolved if in doing so kept the human race from turning back into monkeys? They aren't as intelligent as whites, they wouldn't care even if they understood...." 🤬 All be it, there were a very few Spanish missionaries that traveled through what is now part the United States and Mexico that did write about the Native American people in a realistically, describing their hardships and courage. Or atleast there are very few writings that still exist today. To the victor wins the spoils, but I hate that so much history is lost. The library of Alexandra (though mostly empty at the time of its destruction) had Nothing on the loss of the unwritten (?) history of most of the Native American Nations. Tbh, this might seem ridiculous, but that loss of culture & history infuriates me the most. I understand that bad things happen to people, but to loose all that information for greed & to push an agenda, bothers me. I know this scenario has been repeated innumerable times in history, many of which were Native American nations fighting and destroying each other. This is the nature of war, but where human beings cannot become immortal, the stories of their lives & culture potentially could.

When the first British, Dutch, and French colonists arrived in what became the United States. The city of London back in Europe had a population larger than the American Indian population in the entire territories in North America that would eventually become Canada and the United States before the 1800s. It wasn't really colonization that happened, it was settling in empty lands. American Indians, the few of them there were, were not being displaced. They had no cities of their own. They lived in small villages scattered over vast tracts of mostly empty land and were constantly warring between them. There was quite a lot of peaceful trade between Europeans and the American Indians, and unfortunately for the latter group they were more interested in trading for advanced European weapons to continue their tribal warfare with each other than they were in learning from Europeans about modern agricultural practices or medicine that had allowed European populations to grow so quickly. With virtually endless populations of Europeans wanting to settle in the New World for economic opportunity or religious freedom, Europeans simply out-competed the American Indians by growing lots of food to feed large families in large towns and cities where no one else was living before. Further south and west, the Spanish did engage in deliberate warfare against the American Indians, but frankly a lot of those tribes believed in human sacrifice so I can't really feel too bad about it. A lot of the massacres that occurred were carried out by other tribes that had allied themselves with the Spanish, not the Spanish themselves. There were atrocities committed much later by Americans, such as the Trail of Tears. It's worth noting, though, that many who died were slaves owned by the American Indians who were being displaced. There's really nobody who looks like the good guys in that story from a modern perspective. Ultimately, the history of humanity is the history of violence, genocide, and all manner of atrocities, and it's still going on today across most of the world. Europeans weren't uniquely evil at any point in history. They just had much better technology when they engaged in the exact same sort of stuff everyone else was engaged in at the time, so Europeans tended to win. I prefer to focus on the good things. Europeans were the first, and only major ethnic group to have outlawed slavery. Slavery is still openly practiced in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. It was Europeans who first tried to create some rules of war to prevent wholesale slaughter of the losing side, and minimize civilian casualties. Europeans haven't always lived up to their ideals, atrocities continue to happen, even in the recent past, but at least they're trying and leading the way to a better future. No one else much seemed to prioritize these things, even today.

Facts. But I just hate it when people try to use this as justification for what colonizers did

@@Anxiousbug The word you’re looking for is settlers.

Yes!! They paved the way.

"Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will. " Gustave de Molinari

Technically, our constitution was inspired by that of the Iroquois nation. So we were not the first. It wasn't until 1988 that congress officially recognized how much our form of government was based on the Iroquois confederacy. It's something that was left out of our history books for years.

@@Haldurson The main inspiration were works from the “Enlightenment”.

@@matt_indy John Adams, when looking at different types of government to draw on when creating the constitution, he created a 3-volume handbook, and while it did include the writings of such philosophers as John Locke, but it also included the actual examples of the Iroquois confederacy, as well as the governments of other native american groups. The Iroquois confederacy was something well within the experience of the members of the constitutional congress through their personal experience. There is a very eurocentric bias among people who totally discount the influence of an actual living, breathing, and still extant government, when there is so much that was clearly borrowed from them. It's a pattern that our history has followed for centuries, of whitewashing, discounting the contributions of non-white, non-european to our own way of life. The very fact that people claim that our government was the first of its kind, when we had a living example that was very similar to our own is an obvious sign of that kind of bias. Fortunately, eventualy (in the 1980s) it was formerly acknowledged.

It's 6 weeks to get from Europe to America and 4 weeks to get from America to Europe

Yup, wind and wave power, no engines back then....and they had to deal with disease. :-P Not a happy journey.

Yeah I was way off ahah! Absolutely mental!

The other thing was knowing the sea. Going to Britain, you can sail along the Gulf Stream, which makes it faster. Going the other way, if you run into that, it'll slow you down. Supposedly, American sailors knew that, but the ones from Britain thought the idea of a "stream" in the ocean was ridiculous.

@@BC-ui9yt I explained it in detail on another comment on this video... Sailing from Europe to America you do not sail against the Gulf Stream current, You go South just passed the mouth of the mediterranean and catch the westerly winds to go west,. you sail northeast with the Gulfstream to go from America to Europe

"Lafayette we are here"

@@Milleniumlance I forgot about that quote. Yes, an American officer said that at Lafayette's burial site in France during WWI. The meaning, that the French helped us during the Revolution, and now American troops have come to help France to repay the favor. Great quote.

That's beautiful. It has always bothered me when you hear fellow Americans say things like "if it wasn't for us you would be speaking German" to the French. It always helps to know your history because you can easily make a fool out of yourself.🗽

@@tommyhallum2054 France did indeed insure our freedom, and we should be eternaly greatful for it. But it doesn't mean that they to shouldn't feel the same towards us for coming to their aide in WW 2. In fact all of Western Europe should feel that way. Over 100,000 Americans gave their lives in the European theater. I know it wasn't just us, our fellow allies deserve a great deal of credit also, but we did provide the most logistical and military forces. While we couldn't have won without the Soviet Union I really don't think they should be considered a true allie. It was a perfect case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. We helped keep them in check also, for the next 45 years. Like you said, it always helps to know your history.

Lafayette lost his father at a young age, and Washington did not have any biological children. Their relationship because a father and son relationship. Lafayette named his son after Washington, and Lafayette sent him a key to the Bastille after the storming, it still hangs at Mount Vernon today.

We have a lot of mimitary-inspires schools, towns, and cities in Ohio. Perry county for Oliver Hazard Perry (war of 1812) comes to mind. Sheridan HS is named for union general Phil Sheridan. He even has a statue in the nearby town if Somerset. The history on display in this country is astounding.

We even have a high school named after him in Chicago

Hear! Hear! Super nice and sweet folks who are open-minded about other cultures

I agree! I'm an English literacy tutor and I use the study guide to help my students learn English as well as US history, geography, and government! I've challenged my US-born friends to take the test. lol One of the geography questions asks you to name one of the two longest rivers in the US. "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" I've taught all of my students over the years how to spell it REALLY fast because all American children learn it that way in school. 😁

As much as he was a traitor there is no question the man was a nutter and had courage. He was let down massively and always seemed to get his courageous deeds missed. When you are wounded multiple times and risk your very life while other Generals want to call it quits... I don't think many men would appreciate being passed over constantly by their peers who don't put themsleves in the same line of vulnerability. Americans see Arnold as a traitor, as a Britishman who has studied the Revolution for a long time as it's my most favourite period I can say this, yes he was a traitor but he was also let down by many on his own side. It's not hard to see why he eventually decided to switch espically when the likes of Gates were seen as better! Not that it was right but from his shoes, it must have been hard!

@@packersfanforlife7903 A traitor inside the walls is always worse than an enemy outside them.

I wish more people understood this

@@thefisherman0074 it's a deep conspiracy on destroying the foundation and founding fathers reputation to destroy the constitution. Because if you are able to convince people the foundation of America is evil then you can get rid of the constitution as well because you convince people that it's an evil and immoral document only benefits rich white men

@@tywaits3896 tbf for a while it did only benefit those types of people. Other races and genders had to be later included in subsequent amendments. Pretty sure your conspiracy is just that though, a conspiracy

@@lokir9959 u do realize the first slave owner on the American shore was a black man. And multiple times in history tyrants have destroyed history for there own benefit..

@@lokir9959 and before I hear the speech only land owners could vote. Yeah at that time the only way to make sure people of that area can vote and their vote matters is because there is proof they live their by being a land owner. It's really hard to buy votes if only people who can confirm they live there can vote. And if that's the case anyone from any country can vote against the will of the people and no vote matters because u don't know if those votes are from the people who live there or not..

nope,. It took Columbus 3 months to find land,. Columbus was also a very poor navigator and had no idea where he was going.. It takes 6 weeks to sail from Europe to America and 4 weeks to sail from America to Europe

@@sodblitz3445 Also to piggyback off your comment their were also naval improvements from the time Columbus sailed to the time of the revolutionary war. Its around then we start seeing the big ship of the line many with a dozen or more sails to catch the wind on multiple masts. Essentially they were bigger, faster, better in every way.

That would be interesting ahah!

Brits tend to do better on tests of U.S. history than Yanks do with British history!(just sayin'!)

@@jrooksable I would agree with that. Mostly because Brits are exposed to US culture much more than vice versa.

I recently moved about 50 miles from there. I should go visit.

I wasn’t aware we had any statues for him, that’s interesting.

The more I live, the less I blame Arnold. Imagine putting your life on the line for a cause for years, and the people who have benefitted the most from your actions won't even give you an ounce of credit. Saratoga would have been a losing battle without Benedict, and therefore we would not have gotten support from France, and without the support of France we would have lost the war.

@@Dino-god69 I must disagree with you. The man was a soldier and soldiers for centuries have given everything they have for their nations, most of them never received the thanks and honors they should and they never selfishly turned traitor.

@@cyndialver2130 I must disagree there. It is easy to judge a man. But when that same man did all these acts and the people who he served under took all the credit. No past or modern day solider would take that on the chin! Becoming a traitor was not good no, however he was pushed to that by his own side. He just took the leap! You cannot blaim soley Arnold for what happened and you cannot judge a man wounded in combat at least twice while his peers who were then congratulated mostly didn't have the stomach to fight, let alone put themsleves in harms way!

@@Dino-god69 brave statement and couldn't agree more. Arnold was pushed to become a traitor. Fight for a cause and get screwed by the cause repeatedly. Considering it was Saratoga which made the French finally say yes... Gates got the credit. Anyone who has never been in the Military shall not understand how it feels when you work your absolute arse off for your colleagues who scream in the office they cannot be first on a lunch break or soend most their time playing sport than their job get promoted over you as your always in work covering what they're not doing and you need extra capacity but never have the time or chance due to work coming first. Least alone getting wounded twice in battle and the very men who denied you got the credit for your actions!

Thanks for mentioning this. Its never mentioned because its not the narrative that some want promoted

Thank you for mentioning this. Everyone wants to believe how "pristine & innocent" the indians were. But it's not true. Each of the tribes fought the other heavily for everything...

Shhhhh, woke history in progress.

@@Deborahtunes @Deborah 78🎶. The "noble savage" trope is absurd on the face of it. Native American warriors were no pushovers despite their technological and numerical disadvantages. They were courageous, fearsome, and made extensive use of tactical deception, lightning raids, ambushes, delaying actions, and psychological warfare. Thing is, you don't get this good at warfare without actually fighting wars on a regular basis. The US could not subdue them all until railroads, mass production, and repeating rifles had been developed, and skirmishes continued into the early 20th Century.

7) yeah except for that guy FDR

@Urusovite The election wasn't stolen. Your orange menace lost. Thank God.

@@JPMadden LOL, cult. Go build another statue of a career criminal or maybe apologize for being white if you are. How about you tell your 5 yr old boy, he can be a girl. Are the Russians in the room? Are Republicans still Hitler or worse than Hitler? Is it still only okay to question election results if you are a Democrat that wanted Hillary and Stacy to break the glass ceiling? Which side is it that constantly mentions "norms" while trying to get rid of the electoral, pack the supreme court, end the filibuster, and make D.C. a state? LOL, Cult. Please just go away.

@@JPMadden Read my comment again and ask yourself, what do you think I want to share with you. Why would I want to live together with that? These are not Political differences. These are, take YOUR cult and FO, differences. Why would you want to share anything with something or someone worse than Hitler? Or agree to live together? You a big fan of his? FO

@@JPMadden "The conservative movement is a cult, and when you're in a cult, the rest of humanity is part of a conspiracy against you. Please seek professional help." You think I need more than this. I don't!

by the late 1700s it was typically 6 weeks from Europe to America and 4 weeks from America to Europe.

I grew up 10 mims from there. Love that area

One man can destroy sub-woofer speakers just with his voice... Awesome a capella group. They even were able to do videos when they were home bound during the lockdown. No instruments. Just voices and a human beatbox.

The British were bringing tea from their colony India into Massachusetts for their consumption. The colonists threw the tea from the ships into the water in the harbor to protest having to pay taxes to the British.

Via BRITISH transport...the French took 6-8 months because they had an extra 3k miles worth of travel to avoid the royal navy...