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American Revolution Podcast

ARP321 Blue Licks & Fort Henry

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the summer and fall of 1782, two expeditions of Butler's Rangers, supported by large numbers of Indian warriors attack American outposts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Daniel Boone in Kentucky and Ebenezer Zane in West Virginia fight desperately to fend off these attacks. George Rogers Clark leads a counter offensive into the Ohio territory. He expects support from the Continentals at for Pitt, but that support never arrives. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence, by Don Glickstein. Online Recommendation of the Week: Betty Zane, by Zane Grey: https://archive.org/details/bettyzane00greyrich Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:48.8

This week episode 321 Blue L, and Fort Henry.

0:54.0

In the summer of 1782, most of the country seemed to believe that the war was over,

0:59.8

that they were just awaiting the final peace terms from Paris.

1:03.0

The terms of a final peace, however, might be impacted by what was happening in America.

1:09.0

A matter of particular contention was the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.

1:16.5

Many loyalists and their Indian allies hope to keep the Americans from claiming all of this land. Britain had allocated much of this area to

1:25.0

Quebec before the war and they hoped that that would remain the case and it would

1:29.8

remain British territory after the war. One loyalist still fighting for this outcome was

1:35.0

Captain William Caldwell. The Irish immigrant had moved to America and settled on the

1:40.4

frontier in 1773.

1:43.4

Almost as soon as he arrived, he was introduced to the violence in America

1:47.8

when the fighting began in what became known as Lord Dunmore's war.

1:51.9

Caldwell received a commission as captain. He stuck with the Royal

1:56.0

Governor in an effort to hold the Norfolk area in early 1776 after the revolution had begun.

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