(PT II) UNSUNG HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: SNIPERS, SPIES, WOMEN WARRIORS & GUERRILLA FIGHTERS

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution (pt 2):The incredible true stories of the unsung heroes and heroines of the American Revolution, men and women of all colors and from all stations in life, who came together to fight for a common cause-liberty. This episode includes the stories of: Francis Marion, also known as The Swamp Fox; James Armistead, a slave, who volunteered and became Lafayette's best spy; Mary Hayes Ludwig, who manned her fallen husband's cannon and helped win the Battle of Monmouth; Nancy Hale, who shot, hung, and buried 6 Tory soldiers who demanded that she cook a turkey for them, a grisly fact that a railroad crew discovered 140 years later; Tim Murphy, America's first hero sniper, and many others. Enjoy our show and review us here at Apple/iTunes FREE app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries/id956154836?mt=2 Mattia Cupelli Epic Music - Official Mattia Cupelli Music Website: http://mattiacupelli.weebly.com/ruins... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.7	These are the times that try men's souls
1:27.6	wrote Thomas Payne in early 1776. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis
1:36.0	shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and
1:41.6	thanks of man and woman. These were just a few of the fiery words contained in Thomas Payne's
1:48.8	pamphlet common sense in the opening days of 1776 in America. Words that express the feelings of
1:56.4	many colonists who were shaping under the yoke of British rule in those early years.
2:03.0	The fire that had inspired Thomas Payne to write these spirited words in his 1776 pamphlet
2:08.7	was still present, but the summer soldiers and sunshine patriots were still sitting on the fence
2:14.2	waiting to follow a winner or they had already thrown in there a lot with the British
2:19.3	reasoning that being a British subject was a far kinder fate than being a dead rebel.
2:25.2	The odds stood heavily against the rebelling colonists when you take into account the size,
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