I just visited Saratoga National Battlefield last week, it was awesome. Where do these book lectures take place? god I'd like to hook up with other revolution nerds. feel so alone.
I was home on a PCS leave and 3 or 4 miles from the Oriskany Battlefield. I think it was the 200th Anniversary so I put on my Army PT uniform and ran all the way down there to see if anything going on there but seen nothing and came back. I grew up in Oneida County near Fort Stanwix. This history had been taught to me at school to know the importance of 1777 to me but not at the great detail of this presentation.
In the French and Indian War Sir William Howe commanded the British Light Infantry Battalion during the Battle of Quebec. I don't think he had any wartime expetience past that. Correct me if I am wrong. He then become a joint commander with Clinton and Burgoyne in the American Revolution and is the British Commander on the field at Breed's/Bunker Hill. He never had any intermediate level of command such as a brigade commander or wing commander, but jumped to army command. The same can be said of George Washington. He commanded the Virginia Regiment during the F&I War. The only other position he had was as an aide to General Braddock during that expedition.
Why did GEN Howe act more like a field commander and less like a CINC? There are more recent examples such higher echelon mix ups in the British Army. I am thinking of the Falklands War and of MG (Then BG) Julian Howard Atherden Thompson and his reports of how he did his best to deal with the madness his civilian political directors foisted upon him. Surely GEN Howe suffered from some other "High Lord" arrangement. Ironic given that such arrangements were, in part, the reason we were fighting the Revolutionary War in the first place.
It's famously one of The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon To Waterloo in the book of the same name by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, so at least the thinking types know about its significance.
@labombarde Thank God for Spain funding the Yorktown campaign! Spain paid both the French and Continental soldiers who hadn't been paid for several months and years causing several mutinees and also paid and refurbished Degrasse's French fleet allowing Degrasse to travel to his destination without worry.
Speaking as a Brit I hope that one can study history, feel ashamed of the shameful and not be ashamed of who we are now. We did not take those actions, and through higher standards we can demonstrate the virtue of endurance and learning.
How many young people are a part of ANY "Heritage" organization? How many young people have free time to attend seminars outside their schooling/professional fields? Fortunately, the USAHEC puts these lectures up on youtube where the young people who can't be in the room can see it at their leisure.
@@kmaher1424 give me a break, young people don't care about history. If more us did, this video wouldn't have only 6k views while "influencers" get millions of them.
I just visited Saratoga National Battlefield last week, it was awesome. Where do these book lectures take place? god I'd like to hook up with other revolution nerds. feel so alone.
This is the meeting place. 🇺🇸🤓
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Great narrative!
I was home on a PCS leave and 3 or 4 miles from the Oriskany Battlefield. I think it was the 200th Anniversary so I put on my Army PT uniform and ran all the way down there to see if anything going on there but seen nothing and came back. I grew up in Oneida County near Fort Stanwix. This history had been taught to me at school to know the importance of 1777 to me but not at the great detail of this presentation.
Spain supplied weapons to Saratoga in 1777!
In the French and Indian War Sir William Howe commanded the British Light Infantry Battalion during the Battle of Quebec. I don't think he had any wartime expetience past that. Correct me if I am wrong. He then become a joint commander with Clinton and Burgoyne in the American Revolution and is the British Commander on the field at Breed's/Bunker Hill. He never had any intermediate level of command such as a brigade commander or wing commander, but jumped to army command. The same can be said of George Washington. He commanded the Virginia Regiment during the F&I War. The only other position he had was as an aide to General Braddock during that expedition.
Wait. Wasn’t the battle of Bennington also fought in Vermont?
Why did GEN Howe act more like a field commander and less like a CINC? There are more recent examples such higher echelon mix ups in the British Army. I am thinking of the Falklands War and of MG (Then BG) Julian Howard Atherden Thompson and his reports of how he did his best to deal with the madness his civilian political directors foisted upon him. Surely GEN Howe suffered from some other "High Lord" arrangement. Ironic given that such arrangements were, in part, the reason we were fighting the Revolutionary War in the first place.
22:55 George McClellen’s grandfather??
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You don't get French troops at Yorktown without Saratoga. Why does everyone end Saratoga with a dismissive comment. yawn
It's famously one of The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon To Waterloo in the book of the same name by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, so at least the thinking types know about its significance.
The French fleet was more important than the French troops.
@labombarde Thank God for Spain funding the Yorktown campaign! Spain paid both the French and Continental soldiers who hadn't been paid for several months and years causing several mutinees and also paid and refurbished Degrasse's French fleet allowing Degrasse to travel to his destination without worry.
Probably because it was Gates and Arnold. Not Washington and Greene.
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It's sad to see so few young people in the crowd. They are no longer taught American History except as something to be ashamed of.
Speaking as a Brit I hope that one can study history, feel ashamed of the shameful and not be ashamed of who we are now. We did not take those actions, and through higher standards we can demonstrate the virtue of endurance and learning.
How many young people do you know? Or did you hear this on Fox News?
How many young people are a part of ANY "Heritage" organization? How many young people have free time to attend seminars outside their schooling/professional fields? Fortunately, the USAHEC puts these lectures up on youtube where the young people who can't be in the room can see it at their leisure.
@@kmaher1424 give me a break, young people don't care about history. If more us did, this video wouldn't have only 6k views while "influencers" get millions of them.
That seems like a talking point more than a fact. US History undergrads and grads at every major university.
How in the world, in 2022, are you recording/uploading a video in 360p? What a joke.
Shawn with the hate.. 👏 😔