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Lectures in History

The American Revolution, 1775-76

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Kutztown University professor Michael Gabriel teaches a class about military engagements during the American Revolution from April 1775 to July 1776. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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...in history.

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Cutsown University Professor Michael Gabriel teaches a class about military engagements during the... Now. the American invasion of Canada and the eventual British evacuation of Boston.

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His class is about an hour.

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Okay, everybody.

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So last class, we were talking about the outbreak of the American Revolution.

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We say all this, tension is building.

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In the spring of 1775 in April, General Thomas Gage sends troops into the countryside,

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fighting breaks out at Lexington and Concord. And as night falls, about 20,000 Americans

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descend on Boston, lays siege to the city, and this war that nobody really wants, but since

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