Episode 116 American Terrorist in Britain

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

James Aitken, a petty criminal in Britain, schemes to burn down all of the Naval portyards in England to cripple the British Navy. He hopes to become a hero of the American cause. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: John the Painter: Terrorist of the American Revolution, by Jessica Warner Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life of James Aitken Commonly Called John the Painter, by John Wilkes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Kow. UK. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.
0:48.6	Today episode 116 American Terrorist in Britain.
0:55.0	Last week I discussed some of the troubles Silas Dean had in France trying to get military
1:00.6	supplies and French officers to America. Around the same time
1:05.2	Silas Dean was trying to get the first ships out of port in November 1776, a man
1:11.3	named James Aiken knocked on his door.
1:15.0	Aiken told Dean that he fought for the British under Lord Dunmore in Virginia the year before.
1:21.7	He had been treated poorly and now wanted to work for the Patriot cause.
1:26.0	This 25-year-old seemed rather dishevelled and intended to ramble on, but he offered an interesting plan.
1:35.0	Aitgen had developed a device that would allow the user to set it,
1:40.0	then, after a delay of several hours, it would burst into flame.
1:45.0	Aiken proposed to enter the British dockyards in England,
1:50.0	set multiple devices, and escape before the fires broke out,
1:54.5	destroying the dockyard.
1:56.8	This would cripple the British naval operations.
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