Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. I'm Andrew. And I'm Caleb.

And welcome to episode 37, our second part in the American Revolution series.

This week we're actually going to try to get into the American Revolution.

We keep trying to start it and we keep having to give all this backstory stuff.

So I think we're almost ready to get to some pretty cool stuff.

We mentioned Joseph Brandt in our last episode and how he was kind of an up-and-coming person

that was going to be taking a lot of the influence now that Sir William Johnson has died,

and he got it in his head that it might be a good idea to go to England and visit the king.

We also mentioned that since William Johnson has died, Guy Johnson has taken over

and become the new secretary of the Indian

Department for his recently deceased uncle slash father-in-law. Yes, you heard that right. Anyway,

moving on, Guy Johnson is really active in trying to curb any patriot influence and get the entire

Iroquois Confederacy to declare war on these ungrateful,

good for nothing colonial traders.

Now, Andrew, throughout a lot of our past episodes, Sir William Johnson has been kind of one of the

heroes of our story, but now it's going to be really difficult for me being, you know,

a stereotypical American patriot because Sir William Johnson and his whole family were stoutch loyalists.

So now I'm going to do my best to try to keep them in some positive light without referring to them as these traitors.

Well, to him, we're the traitors.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Anyway, as all this is going on in April 1775, a group of British red coats were intercepted by a local militia who learned that the British were on their way to confiscate all their weapons in Massachusetts.

This soon escalates into a series of battles that we call today Lexington and Concord,

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