Hello, welcome to Erichoy History and Legends. This is Caleb. And this is Andrew. And welcome to episode 35, Logan, the orator. It's been a bit,

Caleb, but we're following up. The French and Indian War has just ended, and Pontiac and Gaiasuta's war

has petered out in 1763. Last time we kind of talked how the Paxton boys killed 20 innocent Conestoga, Iroquois Indians in Pennsylvania.

The government apologizes profusely to the Six Nations, but nobody's ever brought to justice,

and none of the local colonists are willing to testify as to who committed the murders.

And on top of this in 1763,

jolly old mad king George has upset all the colonists

by proclaiming all lands past the Appalachians as off limits.

You know, we kind of always give the British and the English royalty,

especially, kind of blame for basically every problem that's ever

happened in early America. But it's pretty refreshing to see that he was actually doing his

best to stop some of these scandals that were going on as far as stealing land from natives.

And it kind of adds truth to some of the argument on the grievances that

they really had at the time. Yeah, this kind of just throws another log on the fire, which

makes American colonists upset at the king, thinking that he's intruding in our freedom,

because we can't settle these lands, including a lot of these people are veterans

of the French and Indian War, and beforehand, the colonial governments promised them land

for service.

So now the king's telling them they can't have it, and on top of this taxation and other

intolerable acts are going to be coming out of Britain. And so this kind of pushes these

frontier colonists towards the independence movement that we're going to see coming down the road

pretty soon. And it wasn't just like the average soldier that would be walking in the militia

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