AR-SP26 Powder Alarm - Round Table Discussion

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Powder Alarm resulted from a British raid in September, 1774 to capture powder from a local storage site. It made clear that the patriots needed better intelligence and a better rapid response system to challenge the British soldiers. Round table events are recorded live. Participants have an opportunity to comment and ask questions. If you would like to join a future event live, please join my mailing list to receive notice: Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	Running to learn more. Hello and thank you for joining this special edition of the American Revolution.
0:50.0	This week we're going to listen to a recording of our roundtable discussion about the powder alarm.
0:56.4	The talk took place a few days after the 250th anniversary of the original events, which took place in September of 1774.
1:06.0	This discussion was recorded live on Zoom.
1:10.0	All right, so we're here today to discuss,
1:12.0	well, I made the topic, the powder alarm, which took place on September 1st of 1774, so exactly 250 years ago, a couple weeks ago.
1:24.4	But I really want to talk about this entire period before and after that.
1:28.8	It's a very interesting time in the history of the American Revolution. We're talking the fall of 1774. The powder
1:36.4	alarm, I call it the dress rehearsal for Lexington and Concord. Let's set the time period in exactly what's going on in September of 1774.
1:46.0	Almost a year earlier in December of 1773 we had the Boston Tea Party.
1:52.0	Now of course it took several months for word of that to get back to London,
1:57.0	several more months for them to react to it,
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