The American Revolution, Part 4 [View all]
After watching this chapter, ihave one buring question: HOW THE HELL DID WE WIN THIS WAR, ANYWAY? The whole chapter seemed to be a chronicle of American missteps and mistakes, with the odd victory (hurray for John Paul Jones!) stuck in there. But it sure looked like the British were winning by the end of it.
Stuff I did not know or was not taught in 1959-61 American history classes: I didn't know about Washington's horrible crusade against Native Americans in New York, or that George Rogers Clark was such a horrid racist. I was never taught that the reason Charleston fell was basically that white men refused to arm their Black slaves against the British for fear the slaves would revolt and turn their guns on them .Or that Washington wasn't the perfect strategist he was supposed to be, he was just a pretty good leader of men. And the list goes on...
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