Meet James Aitken, Patriot Sympathizer and Dockyard Incendiarist

Criminalia

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Opposition to the British crown began years before the battles of the American Revolutionary War broke out in the Thirteen Colonies, and that opposition took many forms, like riots and boycotts. A Scotsman named James Aitken sympathized with the rebels, and stood by them by setting British dockyards on fire – if the Royal Navy didn't have any ships, then England couldn't go to war with the colonies, he believed. Let's talk about who James was, and how he wanted to be an American hero.

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1:51.6	The American Revolution was a political movement and war between great Britain and its 13
1:59.6	American colonies. It began with the passage of the stamp act in 1765 and ended with the
2:05.7	ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military piece of the revolution
2:12.6	the American War for Independence began in 1775 with the battles of Lexington and conquered
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