British Leadership During the American Revolution by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

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  • @craigscarborough3696
    @craigscarborough3696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am watching this in 2022. The men who lost Afghanistan is a book that should be written.

  • @johanblume2621
    @johanblume2621 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent speaker/historian. Enjoyed the lecture and his book.

  • @RKarmaKill
    @RKarmaKill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So many whiny comments. Quite good lecture 👌

    • @RPMZ11
      @RPMZ11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was very well done.
      None of them have ever graced a university lecture hall in their life.

  • @CurtisWebb-en5kh
    @CurtisWebb-en5kh หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you ALL💯. Ity2024

  • @scottn7cy
    @scottn7cy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This video sets a record for marathon introductions and preamble at least that I have seen. It's 5 minutes before the speaker steps up and another 8 minutes of the speaker talking about his book, and then another 5 minutes criticizing history as presented in movies.. If you really want to hear this lecture start at 18:45.

    • @tacocruiser4238
      @tacocruiser4238 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But it was all entertaining though. That's all that matters. An informative lecture isnt much use if everyone is falling asleep.

    • @Clint52279
      @Clint52279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I realize its important to know who is giving the information and their qualifications to do so, but it was a tad irritating.

    • @larrymartin3678
      @larrymartin3678 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your comment is valid and made me laugh, I Liked the look at history from another perspective though

  • @jasonoconner7863
    @jasonoconner7863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you're actively researching this topic, I recommend you listen to this talk at 1.5 speed. The speaker has an extreme amount of filler ( 10 mins in and he's talking about the cover of his book. , his phone rings mid way through his introduction, etc )

    • @hendustl66
      @hendustl66 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @brutusbarnabus8098
    @brutusbarnabus8098 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The war was lost by the British when Howe decided to take Philadelphia instead of linking up with Burgoyne in Albany. That was supposed to be the plan but because the British didn’t have a Supreme Commander like an Eisenhower in WWII Howe freelanced and left Burgoyne high and dry. The idea was to cut off the more rebellious northern colonies thereby containing the rebellion. To this day I do not know what Howe was think. It was their best chance to quell the uprising.

  • @aresee8208
    @aresee8208 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think he has the psychoanalyst joke 39:48 backwards. It should be: The BAD new is you're anxious. The GOOD news is you have a lot to be anxious about.

  • @johnstevenson1709
    @johnstevenson1709 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting lecture but the royal navy didn't outnumber the french and Spanish navies in the 18th centuary did it?

  • @aresee8208
    @aresee8208 ปีที่แล้ว

    Certainly not a polished "documentary," but his presesentation seems pretty standard for an academic seminar. I had no problem listening to him.

  • @worthymartin4008
    @worthymartin4008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    well the old chap may be a bit of a fuddy duddy but he treats his subject with warmth and insight and i admire him for it. would have been nice to see the overall political context get more attention but i guess some things are still too painful to contemplate so we had best leave this to the marxist historians harr harr

    • @JB-uv4hm
      @JB-uv4hm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check into complete sentences dmbfk.

  • @robertalpy9422
    @robertalpy9422 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nobody said "ye" as (yee) it was just an odd way to write (The) and wherever you se it put the in there and all is clear.

    • @ami2evil
      @ami2evil 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yhee-Yhee?

    • @brutusbarnabus8098
      @brutusbarnabus8098 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      so the town crier shouting .”Hear ye Hear ye” is a fallacy then? The word ye in Old English is a second person plural pronoun and was used to address a group of people or peers and was in fact pronounced “yee.”

  • @paulmicheldenverco1
    @paulmicheldenverco1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Some people have suggested that if the Americans were able to throw off the yoke of the British, the Confederates should have been able to achieve independence as well. I'd like to see a USAHEC do a subject on why the Continental Army won the Revolutionary War but the Confederates lost the Civil War. I'm not a professional historian, but I would say there are two major differences. 1) The Confederates were fighting an industrialized foe in with significant progress into the industrial revolution and 2) The Atlantic did not separate the Union government from the fight and the union could harness telegraph communication and rail transportation.

    • @tommacintyre5655
      @tommacintyre5655 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would suggest that the major difference was European intervention. America could not have won the revolution without France, and the Confederacy could not convince France or Britain to side with them.

    • @markkelly9621
      @markkelly9621 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Tom MacIntyre
      Spain also fought against Britain during the war.

    • @tommacintyre5655
      @tommacintyre5655 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sure! Other European country's as well.

    • @martyrobinson149
      @martyrobinson149 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was a coalition against Britain.

    • @TomTom-rh5gk
      @TomTom-rh5gk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Revolutionary war was England's Vietnam. England had worldwide commitments and was very busy with Ireland. The GDP of the colonies was close to the size of England. Moreover the English colonists had close relatives in England and they waged a propaganda war against the Red Coats.

  • @horaceball5418
    @horaceball5418 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If the British had George S Patton at their General instead of General Howe, we would be sipping tea right now.

    • @briansheehan3430
      @briansheehan3430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      General Howe was actually both tactically and strategically brilliant.
      The problem was that he sympathized with the colonists, and wasn't as aggressive as he should have been.
      He could have easily destroyed Washington at Long Island.

    • @worthymartin4008
      @worthymartin4008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the british are consummate masters of warfare, all that you colonials ever learned was suckled from their ample bosom

    • @david6532
      @david6532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you would be better off with tea look at what coke has done for you lol

    • @JB-uv4hm
      @JB-uv4hm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try at least getting in the correct century.

    • @ami2evil
      @ami2evil 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@david6532 Sniff, sniff...
      Nose candy, anyone?

  • @johnstevenson1709
    @johnstevenson1709 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also who reads ye as ye rather than the?

  • @WendyDaCanuck
    @WendyDaCanuck 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s a tough go. The presenter is a very poor speaker.

  • @DouglasMoran
    @DouglasMoran 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    11 minutes into the talk and he is still talking about trivial details of the cover of the book. He is technically a poor speaker: halting speech, uncertain of what he is going to say, ... Gave up -- 2 hours was going to be excruciating.

    • @keithmitchell6548
      @keithmitchell6548 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You missed the point completely...

    • @DouglasMoran
      @DouglasMoran 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One of those extended trivialities involved which version of the author's name was used on which edition and how it came down from his parents, and which history books his father had read.
      Please educate me about what was the relevant point of this?

    • @keithmitchell6548
      @keithmitchell6548 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or rather, how 2 countries can see a common train of events so differently, and how different it is to publish in different countries.... Personally, I find that fascinating. More importantly, it's just a jokey preamble. It's a shame you can't maintain a level of attention beyond 11 minutes, you might learn something. 'Extended'.. lol. I assume you're not used to this more academic type of talk.

    • @DouglasMoran
      @DouglasMoran 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      1. Actually, I am a former professor, but in a discipline where people's time is valuable and speakers are expected to respect their audience. In my discipline, half the audience would have walked out by the 11 minute mark, with more soon to follow. 11 minutes is more than enough for the speaker to demonstrate that he is prepared to, and capable of, delivering a competent talk. It is not a matter of one not being able to maintain attention, but of cutting your losses.
      2. The talk was advertised to be about the American Revolution, not publishing.
      3. It is talks like these that convince students that historians have nothing relevant to say -- by not getting around to the purported topic, the speaker signals that he doesn't think it is important or interesting. So why should anyone else?

    • @keithmitchell6548
      @keithmitchell6548 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Good god man, you must have been a nightmare to work/be with.. There's nothing worse than someone who takes themselves too seriously.

  • @scottmcdonald5237
    @scottmcdonald5237 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    😂

  • @david6532
    @david6532 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    noth was not as bad as blair,blair was a liar a thief and a murderer

  • @TorricRoma
    @TorricRoma 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    O'shaughnessy? Lol hey your son Jim has a TH-cam channel lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @12rwoody
    @12rwoody 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zzzzzz.....zzZZZZZZZZ...

    • @ami2evil
      @ami2evil 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wake up, you shat yourself!

  • @filipeamaral216
    @filipeamaral216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The subject seems interesting but this guy is so boring that I had to thumbs down this video.

  • @gat2asp919
    @gat2asp919 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My God he drolls on about his stupid book cover for the first 20 minutes.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly. And it was probably more
      interesting than what came after !
      Where the hell did they find this
      guy ?! An embarrassment !!