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@@BritishGuy22 at timestamp 2:17, did you notice how those militia troops were called Minute Men? Brits often wonder why our intercontinental ballistic nukes are called Minutemen III. This is the origin of the name. Notwithstanding the fact that the minute men were troops organized to fight the British, the name in the modern context is not intended as anti-British sentiment but rather as a historical reference that means "at the ready" or "vigilant" or "available at a moment's notice" since in a nuke war seconds count. That's why the Cuban Missile Crisis was such a big deal during the Cold War with Russia -- proximity of the missiles to the American homeland, i.e., time before the missiles would reach our borders.
People don't understand that is where the whole obsession with guns came from, what the video doesnt go over is how the British before the war knew something was coming and began to confiscate all weapons the colonists owned, they also kicked people out of their own personal property to house British soldiers, and British soldiers also assaulted many colonists (all of those can be looked up) so when drafting the Bill of Rights the right to own a gun was considered something necessary to prevent a government like the British King from ever happening again, they had no idea it would lead to assault weapons, once the US became a nation they had no federal police nor Federal protection, its citizens had to defend themselves for roughly the next 100 years, thats why the mentality exists
This is why Americans drink coffee. After the revolution it became a principle to avoid tea and coffee became popular. Today people drink tea in the states but it's nowhere near as popular as coffee. Old habits.
I am a Retired Elementary School Teacher( Primary School) I wish we had this videonwhen I was teaching 1st and 2nd grades(ages 6-7). My students would have loved it.
It's understandable that they don't teach much about this in British schools, since they have so many other wars, and it's treated as a small footnote in British history, but I think it really is kind of a big deal, losing a whole continent. But it turned British attention in other directions, like to India, Africa and Australia and they ended up taking over those places instead. I don't know if that's good or bad. In the short term it made them rich, but in the long term it gave them two World Wars.
When I was in high school in American History class we were taught about the magna carta and the English Civil War. In part because it was related to the American Revolutionary War.
Well look what popped up on my feed, it's oversimplified! Had to subscribe! Can't wait for part two and maybe more oversimplified? Thanks for the reaction and commentary
As an American, I typically view our revolution as an extension of English civil wars. In the end, British troops were battling their own people. Same with 1812. Sad, but not unheard of in the Old Country even before North America was discovered.
I know full well AMERIGO Vespucci was the first European documented to discover the Americas; Columbus thought he'd sailed to India and thus the natives are called American Indians. Ponce de Leon (Espana) was the first to plant a flag on my hometown of Pensacola FL.
@@sld1776 His estate was in debt. He inherited it along with a massive amount of debt. He did at least try to free his slaves, which is more than can be said of many slaveholders. And the other founders who owned slaves were more successful in their efforts to free their slaves. Many never owned slaves at all.
Imagine poor whites being green with envy, “Look at Jefferson, 🙄 he doesn’t even beat his niggers. I heard he doesn’t make them work but 2 hours a day and the rest of the time they’re all out Lolly gagging and having fun. SMH.” His stand on slavery was clear. The only reason he couldn’t free all of his slaves because of fear what English sympathizers who still wanted to depend on England what do, and the other reason was there was no where for them to go at the time. England sent those captured Africans to them. They didn’t go to Africa and steal them. None of the founding fathers did. Our education system is screwed up because of the lies the racist white peoples who were poor envied the rich that they wanted someone else to be in their position too.
British history is so rich and convoluted, that the American colonies are probably just a footnote there. So much else to learn. For us, it’s of primary importance as our nation began. 😊🇺🇸. Oversimplified is fun!
Oversimplified is a complete joke. To tell that entire NOT simplified “history” and never mentioned once the main issue that started the revolution: no taxation without representation!
I love OS, but whoo boy this hurts to just see how simplified this is to the point that we don't actually see what's going on in the NA colonies between the 1740s and Boston. To understand this we really need to understand that the way the NA colonists viewed themselves was very different from how the King and Parliament viewed the colonists. And by implying the Revolution was only the war just hurts. The Revolution was a revolution of ideas that began in the 1740s. Note on the "creation of the United States" being July 2/4: Not in the way we think. The early United States under the Articles of Confederation can be better thought of as an early European Union with a defensive pact written in. The federal government couldn't actually do anything to the point when they asked for taxes to fight the war, the states could tell them to "Bug off" and the federal government couldn't do anything about it. And even when the Constitution was ratified in 1787, we still didn't have the same view of the United States we do now. The way the US was referred to was "these United States", with the emphasis on the individual states rather than the country as a whole. It's not until after the Civil War that "these United States" is changed to "the United States" and the US is seen as a singular country.
That's not even kind of true. Columbus was removed as governor because of his hatred and cruelty towards the native population as a whole. He was too racist and cruel for even the famously xenophobic Spanish.
