If Lafayette hadn't convinced French aristocrats to send money & supplies to Washington's troops, the American Revolution would have failed. And the French Revolution of 1789 might not have taken place since it was mostly a response to the high taxes imposed to make up for the debt France had incurred funding the American Revolution and 7 years war.
Skaolloaks The American Revolution caused the French Revolution because it bankrupted the king and got the entire western world thinking about putting enlightenment ideas into practice.
The british and french have been annoying each other for thousands of years. It's an understanding we had. Any chance to undermine the other was capitalized on.
And that's why we have alcohol. Alcohol, helping you face the horrors of the past, he horrors of the future, and well.. right now's pretty great, actually.. I'm hammered!
It Reminded me of the Russian Revolution, most of all the part where the armies steal from the colonists/peasants and spark popular revolt against the Revolutionaires.
YEAH! And when they were done all these assholes who couldn't run a Revolution properly wrote the Constitution. AMAZING, THERE IS NO WAY IT COULD HAVE ANY FLAWS...fml
That fact about supply issues was most interesting, specially since Nathaniel Greene is my Great Great Great... Uncle. He's talked about a lot in my family.
It's ironic bc Ben's Join or Die cartoon was drawn for the French and Indian war to inspire the colonies to join Britain in order to beat the French and Indians
What Americans also like to forget is that the tea tax or representation while quite high was, A Justified because tea was a luxury good which most people wouldn't be drinking so it didn't effect the average American much plus the tax paid for the debts of the navy which had protected the Americans from French Privateers and French Canadian efforts in 7 years war of French Indian war if you prefer. B one of the few remaining taxes from the British government the rest being handled by the local colonial governments. C even if the Americans got representation judging by the original voting laws of the US most people wouldn't have got that representation. And D hat demand never reached Parliament, the Americans responsible for being the spokes people of colonists and their colonial government never told them.
Yog Sothoth Tea is not really a "luxury good' in a time when it's not safe to drink unboiled water. And also if you're technically British. Seriously, the British really are that committed to their tea even today.
lexidizzle Tea was too expensive for the average person to drink on a regular basis. The middle class could only drink it very occasionally and the lower classes would never be able to afford it. The average person would drink water or alcohol.
"hat demand never reached Parliament" If hat demand ever reached the Parliament we'd be living in a totally different more prosperous hattier world today. sad.
But you also skipped over the part where people were forced to house British soldiers at their cost and the fact that they were taxed higher than British citizens in Britain. There were many issues with the way the colonists were looked down on and treated unjustly. Remember George Washington fought for the Crown before the Revolution. Many Colonists fought and died in the French and Indian war. Perhaps the way they treated they colonies points to why they lost most of their Empire. I'm sure if you asked any other ex-colony they could bring up some points on the issue.
They did *not* pay higher taxes than British citizens in Britain. Other way around in fact. "By 1775, the British government was consuming one-fifth of its citizens’ GDP, while New Englanders were only paying between 1 and 2 percent of their income in taxes." "The bottom line: American colonists were both paid more and taxed less than the British." "Taxes remained orders of magnitude higher in Great Britain than across the pond." Colonists housed soldiers and paid taxes to help pay for the debt caused by the French and Indian War, a war that... the colonists started! Not exactly an unreasonable request.
Oh no, not Quebec! How could we ever live without them! Kidding, of course, nice place and whatnot. Plus, alternate outcome of events of history, domino effect, etc, etc.
Daniel Solorzano Even with the musical, the textbooks to talk about the starvation and lack of supplies. At least, mine's did. Every textbook is different, so I'm not sure. ("Hamilton"'s the bomb though.)
Dude in charge of supplies wanted Washington’s job so withheld supplies from him. He used his own money too. Marquis de Lafayette who was one of the richest men in France and bought a boat and came over to fight and he clothed, fed, and gave arms using his money and went broke later on because of that .
This is great. I love this video. I watched twice. Please, do more of these. Make it a series. Send Alex on tour. I'll Grateful Dead that shit and follow him around the country. Okay I won't, but please make more of these.
I love when people that aren't from central New York try to pronounce the Six Nations names. I'm used to saying Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida. I didn't think they could be pronounced wrong. Seeing them now I realize they're weird when you don't grow up around them.
Alex, please do a video that focuses on how much the Bill and Ted cartoon informed kids (including myself) about interesting and often obscure facts. One of which was that Union soldiers fought without shoes at Valley Forge, which you obviously mentioned. Thanks. BTW, I enjoy all your videos. You convey humor AND facts in way that commands believability in the information given. well done!
I couldn't pay attention. The background music just made me hear the theme from "The Great Escape" in my head, and I couldn't concentrate on anything else.
As I recall, we tried to "liberate" Canada, and they were all like "na bruh, we pay taxes. we got maple syrup and moose. we got a pretty good deal here, eh?"
So glad you guys know how to read books. BTW your Ben Franklin "snake dottle" was from the French Indian War, not the American Revolution. It's part of the Albany Plan of Union, which didn't bring about a union, taxes did that a decade later
Haudenosaunee. The indigenous people of what is today the State of New York call themselves Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse). "Iroquois" is a French transliteration that English-speakers mispronounce of "Irikwa", which is something their enemies called them. It means "Black Adder" or "Real Killer" because the Seneca and Mohawk peoples were really, REALLY good at war. Like, maybe a little too good at that. It's kind of worrying, to be honest. Anyway, other than that, good jokes and I wound up learning some new things about the American war for independence from the British Empire. Kudos!
Disease was the #1 killer in war from the time the first caveman attacked his neighbor to World War 1. While I will not deny the impact of smallpox on US society in the late eighteenth century including during the Revolutionary War, that does not make Franklin a liar. Franklin himself saw prior to the war how the British treated former rebellious territories in Ireland and Scotland and he was right to fear the awesome destructive power of British retribution. As a colleague of Duke of Cumberland said of his campaign against the Scots during the Second Jacobite rebellion, "[h]e created a desert and called it peace."
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If Lafayette hadn't convinced French aristocrats to send money & supplies to Washington's troops, the American Revolution would have failed.
And the French Revolution of 1789 might not have taken place since it was mostly a response to the high taxes imposed to make up for the debt France had incurred funding the American Revolution and 7 years war.
Skaolloaks Exactly.
Skaolloaks The American Revolution caused the French Revolution because it bankrupted the king and got the entire western world thinking about putting enlightenment ideas into practice.
The british and french have been annoying each other for thousands of years. It's an understanding we had. Any chance to undermine the other was capitalized on.
Immigrants: we get the job done.
Theo Hamilton I knew sooner or later a Hamilton comment would show up.
Pox Americana is a great fucking title!
That is all.
roguecactus7 I guess that book went (puts on shades) viral
roguecactus7 ikr
Viruses are neither alive nor dead - but yes smallpox still exists in labs - there hasn't been a recent outbreak since 2000s (according to wikipedia)
its a good name for a band.
theonlycatonice The world got pretty much rid of smallpox. It's way more sanitary and today we can easily fight it back with modern medicine.
Luckily by WW1 this problem had ended... and was immediately replaced with the Spanish Flu.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
ye
"War. War never changes".
Exactly how much time did the founding fathers spend just sobbing hopelessly into their frilly shirts?
7 minutes and 15 secounds
Jürgen Siewert I thought 1776 minutes
A lot. They who started the damn war over a stamp tax, then escaped the effects of it.
Cracked: making american history interesting for foreigners who otherwise would not give two measly damns about it otherwise. Good job as always.
And Americans lol
you can't say otherwise twice in the same sentence otherwise it sounds dumb
And that's why we have alcohol. Alcohol, helping you face the horrors of the past, he horrors of the future, and well.. right now's pretty great, actually.. I'm hammered!
"Uglifying their pickup trucks" OH MY
Yeah, I get it. The Revolutionary War was a real shit show.
Sometimes literally!
It Reminded me of the Russian Revolution, most of all the part where the armies steal from the colonists/peasants and spark popular revolt against the Revolutionaires.
YEAH! And when they were done all these assholes who couldn't run a Revolution properly wrote the Constitution. AMAZING, THERE IS NO WAY IT COULD HAVE ANY FLAWS...fml
A mohawk, here. originally from The Six Nations reserve. Hearing the way you pronounce some of our words/names is humorous.
Hahah. How many times has Alex died?
he has dies all the times
Gorb Gorbinson who cares
Not enough.
Gorb Gorbinson who??????????????
@@ellonico someone's telling it like it is.
As an American living in Canada right now... THANK YOU, SMALLPOX.
Your sons father fought in the revolutionary war you say? HMMMMM
@@steventeel4345 He must be immortal
please make a "alex vs mini alex knife fight to the death" video i would watch the fuck out of that.
That fact about supply issues was most interesting, specially since Nathaniel Greene is my Great Great Great... Uncle. He's talked about a lot in my family.
I feel like there's just like one or two people at Cracked that loves the Revolutionary War and keeps writing and making them do these videos
Revolutions are built on hope
and death from diseases
And pp expand
I like this new guy Schmidt. Schmidtty the clam.
Excellent, history lesson for a Sunday Morning. Thanks guys !
Mahatma Coat hey I'm watching on Sunday morning too , 10 months after you
"They Hamleted each other with poison daggers" I died at that
Don't worry like any good revolution a gay guy showed up to save the day to make America fabulous and get the real winning started. Lmfao
SECK VON STEUBEN! He was awesome.
SECK Exactly!
Von Steuben's training at Valley Forge ftw!
I cant run for President until 2028 fam... :'( lmfao Also Im not Turing, Von Steuben, or Mercury...
Oh my God! Yes he was! And his statue is also very military and also awesomely fabulous!
*****
Ham was bi, most likely.
I'd like to think the Alex's didn't kill each other, but actually cut themselves poisoning their daggers.
Congrats on your Jeopardy win, Alex! I miss this channel.
loved it. the context, the humor, the delivery. all of it
It's ironic bc Ben's Join or Die cartoon was drawn for the French and Indian war to inspire the colonies to join Britain in order to beat the French and Indians
Thomas Mifflin? *office flashbacks*
This guys is hilarious, he should do a stand up special on Netflix
Let's look at the bright side, we have a chance to do better in the next American Revolutionary War.
beautiful ending, absolutely amazing
What Americans also like to forget is that the tea tax or representation while quite high was, A Justified because tea was a luxury good which most people wouldn't be drinking so it didn't effect the average American much plus the tax paid for the debts of the navy which had protected the Americans from French Privateers and French Canadian efforts in 7 years war of French Indian war if you prefer. B one of the few remaining taxes from the British government the rest being handled by the local colonial governments. C even if the Americans got representation judging by the original voting laws of the US most people wouldn't have got that representation. And D hat demand never reached Parliament, the Americans responsible for being the spokes people of colonists and their colonial government never told them.
Yog Sothoth Tea is not really a "luxury good' in a time when it's not safe to drink unboiled water. And also if you're technically British. Seriously, the British really are that committed to their tea even today.
lexidizzle Tea was too expensive for the average person to drink on a regular basis. The middle class could only drink it very occasionally and the lower classes would never be able to afford it. The average person would drink water or alcohol.
"hat demand never reached Parliament" If hat demand ever reached the Parliament we'd be living in a totally different more prosperous hattier world today. sad.
But you also skipped over the part where people were forced to house British soldiers at their cost and the fact that they were taxed higher than British citizens in Britain. There were many issues with the way the colonists were looked down on and treated unjustly. Remember George Washington fought for the Crown before the Revolution. Many Colonists fought and died in the French and Indian war. Perhaps the way they treated they colonies points to why they lost most of their Empire. I'm sure if you asked any other ex-colony they could bring up some points on the issue.
They did *not* pay higher taxes than British citizens in Britain. Other way around in fact.
"By 1775, the British government was consuming one-fifth of its citizens’ GDP, while New Englanders were only paying between 1 and 2 percent of their income in taxes."
"The bottom line: American colonists were both paid more and taxed less than the British."
"Taxes remained orders of magnitude higher in Great Britain than across the pond."
Colonists housed soldiers and paid taxes to help pay for the debt caused by the French and Indian War, a war that... the colonists started! Not exactly an unreasonable request.
Franklin's "Join or Die" was from the Albany Plan of Union, which never really formed and predated the Revolution.
Cracked is so funny, and stacked full of cool info. Keep up the great work!!
Love this guy, all his stuff is just great
We are OUTGUNNED, OUTMANNED, OUTNUMBERED, OUTPLANNED... and we have POX!!!
Cool to see that the Hamilton musical is fairly accurate. Good joke at the end
I always love finding it how young Alex is when he inevitably dies at the end of his videos.
it's nice to see alex is still dying in videos
That ending though.
Just saw Alex on Jeopardy
Oh no, not Quebec! How could we ever live without them!
Kidding, of course, nice place and whatnot. Plus, alternate outcome of events of history, domino effect, etc, etc.
This is the best cracked video they've done in a while. Hand's down.
this is now my favorite cracked video.
I liked the transitions in this one.
Best R.I.P Alex yet!
lmfao at that ending hahahahahahaha.
Great video!
High ranking masons conspired with the king to stage a phoney war of independence...
ZeroFortyFive Very interesting. How do you know this?
ZeroFortyFive The king did nothing wrong. It was all these bloody freemasons.
Al Smidth! My favourite talkman on cracked nowadays!
I knew the COngress starved there armies thanks to Hamilton haha
Daniel Solorzano Even with the musical, the textbooks to talk about the starvation and lack of supplies.
At least, mine's did. Every textbook is different, so I'm not sure.
("Hamilton"'s the bomb though.)
Dude in charge of supplies wanted Washington’s job so withheld supplies from him. He used his own money too. Marquis de Lafayette who was one of the richest men in France and bought a boat and came over to fight and he clothed, fed, and gave arms using his money and went broke later on because of that .
Even though we lost, this war is one of my favourite pieces of history
That ending always gets me. I keep getting Schmited XD
The ending...amazing.
This is great. I love this video. I watched twice. Please, do more of these. Make it a series. Send Alex on tour. I'll Grateful Dead that shit and follow him around the country. Okay I won't, but please make more of these.
These videos are awesome. About the only thing on this channel that's still awesome...but still awesome.
I love those endings.
#3 I shoot back,"We have resorted to eating our horses"
Yeah that smallpox part was relatable
I ALWAYS forget about the RIP gag at the end
Hahahahhaha, thank you for this video. Glad to see you survived your bike trek though LA :)
You want a revolution? I want a revelation
more episodes like this!! if not I will unsubscribe. this guy works perfect, bring the history!
I love when people that aren't from central New York try to pronounce the Six Nations names. I'm used to saying Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida. I didn't think they could be pronounced wrong. Seeing them now I realize they're weird when you don't grow up around them.
Alex, please do a video that focuses on how much the Bill and Ted cartoon informed kids (including myself) about interesting and often obscure facts. One of which was that Union soldiers fought without shoes at Valley Forge, which you obviously mentioned. Thanks. BTW, I enjoy all your videos. You convey humor AND facts in way that commands believability in the information given. well done!
The Red coats also stole from the locals
Never thought I'd say this, but thank God for smallpox 🍁❤🇨🇦
I like how he literally minimizes the fact that 12,000 people were deliberately starved to death on British ships.
yes. more like this pls.
I know you left that dirty bowl. Do you even know how to turn the kitchen sink on?
Yay! I've been missing Alex's death epilogues.
This could have been a Hilarious Helmet History, you know.
And, the point of this ramble is. There will never be break out info-comedy without the end to ramble.
In England this would be titled "Life in the Colonial War of Aggression."
Alexanderiii In America, this is called We and the French Kicked Your Asses, Good Day Sir.
get 'im tiny Alex Schmidt!
"Self supplying" was a common practice. As was impressment (which still exists today, in the form of conscription, and taxes which pay for armies).
Now I know more about the Revolutionary War even though I ain't American.
I couldn't pay attention. The background music just made me hear the theme from "The Great Escape" in my head, and I couldn't concentrate on anything else.
As I recall, we tried to "liberate" Canada, and they were all like "na bruh, we pay taxes. we got maple syrup and moose. we got a pretty good deal here, eh?"
That Franklin snake cartoon wasn't for the Revolutionary War, it was for the French Indian war
I don't know which version of Hamlet I like better...Cracked or WKUK.
WKUK 100%
Awesome ... love it. Where is more
Well, when Benjamin Franklin said Join, or Die, it was 1754. It was regarding the French and Indian War, not the American Revolution.
great History lesson, I learned a lot.
Well that was grim, informative and had a hilarious ending.
Oh Alex, you did so well on Jeopardy! Did they ask you back for the 'tournament of champions' ?
Absolutely great video
That was awesome very well done
So glad you guys know how to read books. BTW your Ben Franklin "snake dottle" was from the French Indian War, not the American Revolution. It's part of the Albany Plan of Union, which didn't bring about a union, taxes did that a decade later
Huh. So congress hasn't changed at all then.
Woo lol
So You think You want to go back in time. Not without a diving bell, Hell no you do not.
Haudenosaunee.
The indigenous people of what is today the State of New York call themselves Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse). "Iroquois" is a French transliteration that English-speakers mispronounce of "Irikwa", which is something their enemies called them. It means "Black Adder" or "Real Killer" because the Seneca and Mohawk peoples were really, REALLY good at war. Like, maybe a little too good at that. It's kind of worrying, to be honest.
Anyway, other than that, good jokes and I wound up learning some new things about the American war for independence from the British Empire. Kudos!
Snake doodle
Snoodle
What, you thought war would be a gentleman's game?
goddamn! i hate getting hamletted. oh well, i guess i'll just chill and drink some of these nice wine...
it's everyone's favorite clam
I used to hate this guy, but he got worlds better.
Can't wait for the #DrunkHistory version.
this video was both informative AND amusing! haha!
This is some good stuff, I like!
Awesome! More epic history pls.
all wars are violent
I like this guy
Disease was the #1 killer in war from the time the first caveman attacked his neighbor to World War 1. While I will not deny the impact of smallpox on US society in the late eighteenth century including during the Revolutionary War, that does not make Franklin a liar. Franklin himself saw prior to the war how the British treated former rebellious territories in Ireland and Scotland and he was right to fear the awesome destructive power of British retribution. As a colleague of Duke of Cumberland said of his campaign against the Scots during the Second Jacobite rebellion, "[h]e created a desert and called it peace."