349. The Birth of the United States (Part 3)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!” The U.S. Congress votes for independence on the 2nd of July 1776, and George Washington reads the Declaration of Independence to his troops a few days later, after which they pull down the statue of George III in New York, melting it down to make bullets. The king is now the target of the revolutionaries’ grievances, it is no longer the British Parliament. In Episode 3 of our series on the American Revolution, Tom, Dominic and Professor Adam Smith explore the importance and impact of the Declaration of Independence, the role of King George III, and the effect of France’s involvement.

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1:00.0	The Sun never shone on the cause of greater worth.
1:08.7	Does not the affair of a city, a county, a province or a kingdom, but of a continent?
1:13.4	Of at least one-eighth part of the habitable globe.
1:16.8	Does not the concern of a day, a year, or an age?
1:20.3	Posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to
1:24.9	the end of time, by the proceedings now.
1:28.0	Oh ye that love mankind.
1:30.9	Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant.
1:34.8	Stand forth.
1:36.8	Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.
1:41.0	Freedom has been hunted round the globe.
1:44.1	Asia and Africa have long expelled her.
1:46.9	Europe regards her like a stranger.
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