ORIGIN DEFEAT AND AFTER: 2/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware, by Patrick K. O'Donnell
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
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ORIGIN DEFEAT AND AFTER: 2/8: The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware,
by Patrick K. O'Donnell
https://www.amazon.com/Indispensables-Marbleheads-Soldier-Mariners-Washington-Delaware/dp/0802156894/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced capture or annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington’s forces against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Serving side by side in one of the country’s first diverse units, they pulled off an “American Dunkirk” and saved the army by transporting it across the treacherous waters of the river to Manhattan.
In the annals of the American Revolution, no group played a more consequential role than the Marbleheaders. At the right time in the right place, they repeatedly altered the course of events, and their story shines new light on our understanding of the Revolution. As the acclaimed historian Patrick K. O’Donnell dramatically recounts, beginning nearly a decade before the war started, and in the midst of a raging virus that divided the town politically, Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne spearheaded the break with Britain and shaped the nascent United States by playing a crucial role governing, building alliances, seizing British ships, forging critical supply lines, and establishing the origins of the US Navy.
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| 1:02.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelorette with the author, Patrick O'Donnell. His new book The Indispensables. |
| 1:10.0 | The diverse soldier mariners who shaped the country formed the Navy and wrote Washington across the Delaware. |
| 1:16.0 | This is the story of Marblehead, Massachusetts and its brave self-sacrificing volunteers during the revolution which was also a civil war. |
| 1:25.0 | Their neighbors were loyalists and yet they survived the war fought all the way through. |
| 1:32.0 | We are now in 1776. The Marbleheaders have formed the lifeguard around Washington in addition to having a Marblehead regimen with the Continental Army. |
| 1:43.0 | Washington has moved his headquarters from the siege of Boston the British withdrew to New York. |
| 1:49.0 | Two men had in himself, Washington is going to Manhattan. He's now headquarters on Pearl Street. |
| 1:55.0 | He's guarded by the lifeguard, led by Caleb Gibbs of Marblehead and others. |
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