7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston
History That Doesn't Suck
Prof. Greg Jackson
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🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
“Remember it is the fifth of March, and avenge the death of your brethren!”
This is the story of the expiration of hope for reconciliation between the American colonies and the "Mother Country." Bunker Hill's a blood bath. Congress sends King George III their "Olive Branch Petition;" it's D.O.A. Things only devolve further as Thomas Paine rips the King a new one in his #colonialviral pamphlet, Common Sense.
Meanwhile, Captain Aaron Burr witnesses the death of General Montgomery in Quebec and Henry Knox moves cannons over 300 miles to General Washington in Cambridge. The Virginian digs his new toys. Time to move on Boston.
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| 0:23.6 | This is a second edition episode with new details and an updated sound. |
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| 0:44.6 | It's well before sunrise, June 17th, 1775. |
| 0:49.2 | Over a thousand Patriot militiamen are on the Charles Town Peninsula, just north of Red |
| 0:53.6 | Code Occupyg Boston, and hundreds of them are willing shovels and pickaxes or moving |
| 0:58.4 | stones and barrels as they furiously work under a dark sky to prepare an earthen fort known |
| 1:03.9 | as a redoubt on Breeds Hill. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a brilliant move. |
| 1:08.4 | By fortifying this 75-foot tall elevation overnight, these sleepless new Englanders are depriving |
| 1:13.8 | the slow-moving British army of a strategic position. |
| 1:18.6 | But wait, Breeds Hill? |
| 1:21.3 | The Committee of Safety specifically instructed the Patriot commanders here to fortify the |
| 1:25.1 | peninsula's farther back and slightly taller elevation called Bunker Hill. |
| 1:29.4 | It's true that Patriot can and could strike British warships from Breeds Hill, but the |
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