CLASSIC: The Capture of Guam Was Bloodless and Quick, All Due to a Misunderstanding
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Located about 1500 miles to the east of the Phillipines in Micronesia, Guam is a small US territory with a tiny population, beautiful beaches and an incredibly complicated history. For almost four centuries it was a colonial possession of Spain -- but that all changed in 1898, when Guam, in a strange series of misunderstandings, became a possession of the American government. So what exactly happened? Join Ben and Noel as they explore the bloodless, somewhat ridiculous, capture of Guam.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous historians, we have a classic for you about a place that neither of us have visited a little place called Guam, technically part of the U.S. |
| 0:10.3 | Mm-hmm, yeah, about 1500 miles to the east of the Philippines in Micronesia, |
| 0:16.0 | a tiny place with a tiny population, |
| 0:19.0 | idyllic beautiful coastlines, |
| 0:21.0 | but a particularly fraught and ridiculous history. |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah, for the better part of four centuries, this was a colonial possession of Spain. |
| 0:31.3 | How did it become a U.S. territory? Well, everything changed in 1898. Not really on purpose. |
| 0:40.0 | Unless you be concerned that this is going to be a blood and guts kind of episode, you need not worry. |
| 0:46.6 | This is the story of the bloodless and quick capture of Guam. |
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