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Speaker 3: The fact that Weezer sang a song called the British

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Speaker 3: that's what really enshrined Paul Revere as the star of

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Speaker 3: Alan you were bringing us up to the moment. I

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Speaker 6: That, Okay, well on you want to talk about what

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Speaker 3: Or yeah, I think Dawes deserves some credit because Revere,

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Speaker 6: Well, I would say Paul Revere did more. And I'll

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Speaker 6: And his mission was to go talk to Hancock and

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Speaker 6: We just don't know what. So when he so, he

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Speaker 6: That's when they summoned Paul Revere and told them what

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Speaker 6: what he did was he contacted some guys in Charlestown,

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Speaker 6: And what we're going to do is if once the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, little time, Michael Berry's my George.

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Speaker 5: Is you learning anything from the maccaberry show. Micaberary loved

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Speaker 2: Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, the fighting kept getting worse. A lot

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Speaker 6: will I will hold you in my bosom and I

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Speaker 6: will forgive you. But that was when, you know, that

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Speaker 6: He even made proclamations in parliament calling the the rebels treasonous.

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Speaker 6: They were traders to they were traders to the king.

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Speaker 6: There were traders to the empire. And then a man

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Speaker 6: Common Sense, and in that book he basically stated, in

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Speaker 6: layman's terms, look, why do we have a king, and

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Speaker 6: especially one that's inherited. Why can't we just have our

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Speaker 6: there's just why are you doing that? There's no reason.

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Speaker 6: Why are you giving this one family all these benefits.

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Speaker 6: So that really changed the minds of a lot of people.

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Speaker 6: But there was no rush, and even just prior to

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Speaker 6: there were still not enough votes to declare a unanimous

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Speaker 6: It took a lot of people trying to persuade them,

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Speaker 6: and you know, and the Royal Navy where they were

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Speaker 6: doing things. Modern Portland, Maine was put to the torch

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Speaker 6: that which is what really persuaded my majority to finally

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Speaker 3: Alan Waqum, I guess the Sons of Liberty YouTube channel

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Speaker 3: is his channel. Alan, we're talking about such of history,

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Speaker 3: Sons of History, Sorry, Sons of History YouTube channel. We're

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Speaker 3: talking about a mighty British army fighting at that point,

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Speaker 3: that the colonists were able to hold their own.

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Speaker 6: Well, what I they did a lot of training, and

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Speaker 6: what I was going to mention real quick was is

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Speaker 6: that when they saw that they thought that the town

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Speaker 6: the torch by the Red Coats, and so they marched

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Speaker 6: was another volley against the approaching colonials. A couple of

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Speaker 6: the name of Major John Budrick, said, fire, fellow soldiers,

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Speaker 6: for God's sake, fire and they opened fire on the

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Speaker 6: British Red Coats. The Red Coats fled, and from that

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Speaker 6: point all the way to Boston was a sixteen mile

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Speaker 6: gauntlet of four thousand angry militiamen just attacked the Red

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Speaker 6: brought a brigade to rescue them, they would have that

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Speaker 6: entire force would have either been wiped out or surrendered.

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Speaker 6: But they were shooting at them from behind every tree.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it was guerrilla warfare against the retreating Red

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Speaker 6: Coats all the way from conquered to Boston. Now they

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Speaker 6: were able to also hold their own at Bunker Hill

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Speaker 6: until they ran out of powder. The Americans captured for Ticonderoga.

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Speaker 6: So there were a lot of successes by these men.

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Speaker 6: And also when we captured an entire army in Saratoga.

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Speaker 6: It compelled the French and then eventually the Spaniards to

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Speaker 6: join the cause and to declare war on Great Britain

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Speaker 6: and help the United States. So we were able to

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Speaker 6: hold our own because George Washington TB. Came the commander

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Speaker 6: of the Continental Army. He took over the army that

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Speaker 6: was besieging Boston, and what he did what's known as

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Speaker 6: the Fabian strategy. He knew that he couldn't fight Britain's

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Speaker 6: army one on one. He knew that they were weaker.

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Speaker 6: So what he would do is he would attack and

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Speaker 6: then withdraw. They called it the Fabian strategy, came from

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Speaker 6: the from Roman history, and he just kept doing it,

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Speaker 6: kept doing it until eventually at Yorktown, with the aid

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Speaker 6: this was in seventeen eighty one, and Yorktown, with the

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Speaker 6: help also of the French navy, trapping them in Yorktown,

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Speaker 6: Cornwallace surrendered and that was pretty much it. There were

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Speaker 6: other skirmishes in battles throughout the South, but by then,

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Speaker 6: by seventeen eighty one, the British had had enough of war.

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Speaker 6: They were also at war with France, Spain, the Netherlands

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Speaker 6: that they were like, okay, seventeen eighty three they signed

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Speaker 6: the peace treaty with the United States, recognized this as

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Speaker 6: a legitimate country, and we became a nation. We were

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Speaker 6: no longer at war with Britain, not at the time,

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Speaker 6: but that's how it progressed.

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Speaker 3: The Sons of History YouTube channel Alan Joaquim leading, of course,

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Speaker 3: upon independence, to the creation of the bylaws for the nation,

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Speaker 3: which we came to call the Constitution, the first ten

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Speaker 3: amendments to which the Bill of Rights. And here we

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Speaker 3: are today coming up charging for tortilla chips at a

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Speaker 3: tex mex restaurant. Blasphemy