ARP322 Long Beach Island Massacre

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1782 and 1783, as it becomes increasingly apparent that the British have agreed to leave the United States, loyalist officers like John Bacon of New Jersey and the Doan Brothers of Pennsylvania continue to fight. Bacon massacres sailors on Long Beach Island. The Doans rob county treasuries and steal horses. The patriots governments treat t hem as outlaws and hunt them down. 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: Annals of the Revolution: Or, A History of the Doans. by Henry Brooke (Read on Google Books). Online Recommendation of the Week: “An Account of the Capture and Death of the Refugee John Bacon” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew01newj_2/page/150/mode/2up 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	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
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0:32.0	Cheers and have a safe tomorrow. below and thank you for joining the American Revolution.
0:49.2	This week episode 322, the Long Beach Island Massacre.
0:54.0	Last week we covered some of the final battles on the Western frontier.
0:58.0	Further east, by late 1782, the only areas controlled by the British were Charleston, South Carolina and the area around
1:06.2	New York City, including most of Long Island.
1:09.5	General Guy Carlton, in command of all British forces in North America, was obeying orders to cease all offensive
1:15.6	operations and await word of the final peace treaty.
1:20.0	Many loyalists remained with the British. Even if they saw the causes lost, they could not go home.
1:26.7	Most of them, if they tried, would be tried for treason and hanged if caught by the authorities
1:31.6	now in control of the states.
1:33.0	Several prominent loyalists, such as Governor William Franklin,
1:37.0	had already left for Britain.
1:39.0	There were
1:45.0	guerrilla fighters who maintained themselves through theft and pillage.
1:49.0	Perhaps the most prominent of these men still in New Jersey was John Bacon.
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