S8 Ep277: REVENGE, REVOLUTION, AND THE BIRTH OF A PATRIOT Colleague Professor Robert G. Parkinson. In 1774, a grief-stricken Logan launched a brutal revenge campaign, killing nearly 20 people to "glut his vengeance." This violence occurred as the Continental Congre

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REVENGE, REVOLUTION, AND THE BIRTH OF A PATRIOT Colleague Professor Robert G. Parkinson. In 1774, a grief-stricken Logan launched a brutal revenge campaign, killing nearly 20 people to "glut his vengeance." This violence occurred as the Continental Congress began forming an army, calling for rifle companies from the frontier. Ironically, Michael Cresap, the man Logan blamed for the murders, was appointed to lead a Maryland rifle company. As Lord Dunmore launched a war against the Shawnee to secure land for Virginia, Logan delivered his famous lament to his brother-in-law John Gibson, signaling that his personal war was over and he was satisfied with the blood he had spilled. NUMBER 4

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0:00.0	I'm John Baxter and I've insisted on telling you this is so much more complicated than the Colonials versus the Royal Navy.
0:09.0	We have Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia in one contest, the Mingoes, the Shawnees, the Delaware's in another contest,
0:17.0	and the British and the American Colonials in another contest.
0:21.6	And then we have the colonials who are not quite sure which side they're on.
0:24.6	Nobody is. Rob makes the point again and again.
0:27.6	What happened when they heard about the Continental Congress in 74 and the one in 75?
0:33.6	Right.
0:34.6	Bunkers Hill. Everybody said, what's in it for me?
0:36.6	Did I get that right, Rob? What's in it for me? Did I get that right, Rob?
0:38.2	What's in it for me?
0:39.4	You got that right.
0:40.4	It's another layer of bewilderment that now extends over the older colonial fights about these things.
0:48.0	And so everyone has to all of a sudden choose, again, which tribe they want to support.
0:54.1	And we come now to what is known as Bunkers Hill, which is in fact Breeds Hill.
0:59.0	I hope you all know that I'm not going to have time to tell that story.
1:02.0	But in any event, the word goes out from Congress, which is now in Philadelphia, moving south,
1:09.0	away from the British, that they need volunteers, especially from
1:13.0	Pennsylvania. I'm not sure whether these are Virginians or Pennsylvanes, but they pass as
1:18.3	riflemen. What kind of volunteers? And what happens with Michael Cressip, Rob?
1:23.5	Right. So the important thing to know is Logan is not the only one that blames Michael Cressup for what happens the Yellow Creek and then the subsequent war with between Virginia and the Shawnee that develops over the course of late summer and fall after that.
1:40.6	There are a number of people who send messages to newspapers in Philadelphia and New
1:47.9	York especially who are saying that Michael Crescent is the reason for all this. And there
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