13: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown

History That Doesn't Suck

ProfGregJackson

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🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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“The British officers in general behaved like boys who had been whipped at school.” This is the story of the beginning of the Revolution’s end. Lord Cornwallis swears the British need to take the fight to Virginia. He’s got Thomas Jefferson and Lafayette on the run. But at the same time, French General Rochambeau and Admiral de Grasse are ready to give George Washington some serious support ... enough support that the Americans just might turn the world upside down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	History that doesn't suck is a bi-weekly podcast, delivering a legit, seriously researched,
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0:30.0	Welcome to History that doesn't suck.
0:35.0	I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:40.8	Jack Jewets enjoying a night at the Kuku Tavern in Luisa, Virginia, when he learns that
0:46.6	180 British dragons are in town.
0:49.6	They're taking a short break at a nearby plantation before continuing their urgent night ride
0:53.8	further west.
0:55.5	Given their trajectory, Jack knows where these horse-mounted soldiers are headed.
1:00.0	Charlottesville.
1:01.0	It's the only thing that makes sense.
1:04.5	That's where Virginia's state legislature and governor are meeting tomorrow.
1:09.1	Clearly, the British intend to capture the state's leaders.
1:12.5	Well, being the patriot and militia man that he is, Jack isn't going to sit idly by and
1:17.5	let this happen.
1:18.7	Hell no, he chugs his beer.
1:22.1	Okay, I can't prove that, but I really like to picture him dramatically draining an
1:26.9	old school beer-stine and a few gulps, slamming it on the table, wiping the frothy foam from
1:32.7	his mouth with a shirt sleeve, then running out of the tavern.
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