ORIGIN DEFEAT AND AFTER: 6/8: 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: 6/8: 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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| 1:09.5 | The Indispensables, the diverse soldier mariners who shaped the country, |
| 1:14.0 | formed the Navy, and rode Washington across the Delaware. Right now we want to discover Marblehead, |
| 1:20.2 | about 18 miles to the northeast of Boston on the water and it is a prosperous town in the 18th |
| 1:28.3 | century. Patrick, you estimate about 5,000 is business with fishing. What was its relation to |
| 1:34.6 | Boston and Massachusetts' economy? It's the second largest port city in Massachusetts |
| 1:41.4 | and it's a thriving cosmopolitan city and its fortunes are made on fish, specifically |
| 1:49.7 | codfish, and the men of Marblehead fish the Grand Banks. This is well over a thousand miles |
| 1:57.1 | to the north up near Nova Scotia, but the Grand Banks are teaming with codfish. In some cases, |
| 2:03.7 | which are 100 pounds or more John, and they fish the Grand Banks, bring back the cod, and then |
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