Revolution | The Virginia Planter | 1

American History Tellers

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1754, and the British had developed thirteen colonies along the eastern seaboard of the American continent. You may be familiar with them. But what you may not know is that a skirmish between the British and French settlers, who colonized a strip of land lining the Mississippi River, is where a young George Washington made a serious war blunder that ultimately led to Revolution.

Written by New York Times bestselling author, Russell Shorto, this is Revolution by American History Tellers. Over the next six episodes, we’ll dive into the Revolutionary War period from the perspectives of a slave, a woman, a native American, a common shoemaker and a British aristocrat.

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0:13.6	Imagine it's May of 1754, it's the middle of the night.
0:18.0	You're walking along a wooded hillside, somewhere in Western Pennsylvania.
0:23.2	It's pitch black, but you can hear the group of men you've been marching with for the
0:27.0	last few days.
0:28.0	It's so dark that some of them have walked into trees.
0:31.4	Up ahead you can just make out your group's leader, tall young man.
0:35.3	You've been ordered to keep as quiet as possible, so you whisper to the man on your right.
0:39.4	Do you think he knows what he's doing?
0:41.4	I don't know, he seems so young.
0:43.6	Offly young to be leading an expedition.
0:45.6	I hear he's hanged during after a commission in the Royal Army.
0:48.6	Well, he's smart, I'll say that.
0:50.6	Little two full of beans if you ask me.
0:53.4	What brings you here?
0:54.8	They promise me a parcel of land if I join them.
0:57.8	You end the conversation there, hoping you didn't make too much noise.
1:01.1	You're blacksmith, from Fredericksburg, but the thought of having somewhere for you and
1:05.2	your family to build a new home, maybe start a farm, was enough to get you to put down
1:09.8	your tools and pick up your old hunting musket.
1:12.2	Exactly what you and more than a hundred other men from the local militia are going to
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