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A French Engineer's Map Depicting the Early Military Operations of the American Revolution
In 1777, French army officer Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, with the marquis de Lafayette. During the American Revolution, Capitaine du Chesnoy served with Lafayette as both his aide-de-camp and mapmaker, producing several important plans of key engagements. In addition to his maps serving as vital tools for French officers who were strangers to the geography of the United States, Capitaine du Chesnoy’s maps also became an important propaganda tool. The Institute’s historical programs manager, Andrew Outten, discusses one of Capitaine du Chesnoy’s important maps, Carte du Théatre de la Guerre dans l’Amérique Septentrionale, pendant les Années 1775, 76, 77 et 78. Produced in 1779 for King Louis XVI, the map was used by Lafayette to bolster his petition for increased support and expansion of French military operations in America. This presentation will discuss the significance of the map, its features, and the overall role it played in the Franco-American alliance.
This Lunch Bite accompanies our upcoming exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, on view through December 31, 2024.
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An English Lord in America: Lord Fairfax and George Washington in Revolutionary Virginia
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Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, played an influential role in the life of George Washington. Having been introduced to Washington shortly after settling in Virginia, in 1747, Fairfax became Washington’s first employer when he hired the sixteen-year-old Virginian to survey his lands west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Although a professed Loyalist throughout the American Revolution, F...
The First French Map of the United States
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In this segment of Collections Corner, the Institute's research services librarian, Rachel Nellis, highlights a rare map from our Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection, Carte des Etats-Unis de l’Amerique suivant le Traité de Paix de 1783, engraved by Jean Lattré, an official engraver to Louis XVI. This map is an exceedingly rare copy of the first state of the first issue engraved by Latt...
Revolutionary Blacks-Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence
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William and Benjamin Frank, brothers and freeborn men of color, joined the Second Rhode Island Regiment in the spring of 1777, joining a cohort of free Black soldiers serving in an integrated Continental Army. Following the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, they were transferred to the newly segregated First Rhode Island Regiment, a unit composed of Black and Native American Soldiers, including ensla...
The Marquis de Lafayette and His Farewell Tour
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In 1824-1825, the marquis de Lafayette embarked on a tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped establish and whose democratic experiment he saw as a model for the rest of the world. Throughout his thirteen-month tour, he visited all twenty-four states of the union, where he was celebrated in each city and town with processions, banquets and receptions, worsh...
"The Shot Heard Round the World": The Coming of the American Revolution
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By chronicling the settlement of the American Colonies, the formation of colonial governments, and the tension that resulted from the economic strain on Great Britain for its prosecution of the Seven Years War with France, this film illustrates how Great Britain’s attempt to make the American colonies pay for its debts, among other issues, brought about a revolution. The British parliament's pa...
At War, At Sea: The Legacy of James Forten as a Revolutionary War Veteran
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In February 2023, the Museum of the American Revolution opened the acclaimed special exhibition Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia. The exhibition introduced visitors to three generations of the family of James Forten (1766-1842), a free Black Revolutionary War veteran and sailmaker, as they battled slavery and defended freedom in the early United States. Matthew Skic, curator of...
Three George Washington Manuscripts from the American Revolution
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The Institute's research services librarian, Rachel Nellis, discusses three manuscripts signed by Gen. George Washington during the American Revolution. The manuscripts, recently donated to the Institute as part of the George Miller Chester Jr. (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut) Collection of Historic General Washington Documents, include two wartime letters written by Wash...
Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders
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The American founders were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition-but they were not all of one mind. They came from diverse colonies, and they all sought their futures on different horizons. Without reliable maps of even nearby terrain, they contributed in different, and sometimes conflicting, ways to the expansion of a young republic on the seaboard edge of a continent ...
The American Revolution in the Old Northwest
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The American Revolution in the West is often neglected from the overall history of the conflict, though it had a significant impact on how it was conducted. Larry Nelson, assistant professor of history at Bowling Green State University, discusses this important component of the war by examining American ambitions in the Old Northwest, the vast uncharted region north and west of the Ohio River; ...
Fete Lafayette: A French Hero's Tour of the American Republic
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Lafayette is back! Two hundred years ago, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, the marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped establish and whose democratic experiment he saw as a model for the rest of the world. In August 1824, Lafayette sailed into New York Harbor, beginning a thirteen-mon...
Dishonored Americans: The Political Death of Loyalists in Revolutionary America
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In the final words of the Declaration of Independence, the signatories famously pledged their lives, their fortunes and their “sacred Honor” to one another, but what about those who made the opposite choice? By looking through the lens of honor culture of the period, Timothy Compeau, assistant professor of history at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario, offers an innov...
Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America
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The Stamp Act riots in Rhode Island and the Regulator Rebellion in North Carolina, although movements in smaller colonies, tell a broader story about the evolution of American political thought in the decades surrounding the American Revolution. Without pre-existing local tensions, the fury of the Stamp Act crisis might not have spilled over during the summer of 1765, and, without the added str...
A Collection of Letters Written from Captivity by American Soldier and Privateer William Russell
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The Institute's historical programs manager, Andrew Outten, discusses a collection of letters written from captivity by William Russell, an American soldier and privateer who was imprisoned twice during the Revolution. Following his initial capture at sea, Russell was first held prisoner at Mill Prison in England before being released. Shortly after, he was recaptured and incarcerated on the in...
God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
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For more than two centuries, all most Americans have ever known about Benedict Arnold is that he committed treason-yet he was more than a turncoat. He was a superb leader, a brilliant tactician, a supremely courageous soldier and one of the most successful military officers of the early years of the Revolutionary War. His capture of Fort Ticonderoga, his Maine mountain expedition to attack Queb...
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
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Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
A Handkerchief Commemorating the Reign of King George III
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A Handkerchief Commemorating the Reign of King George III
A Client State or Great Nation: Moderates vs. Radicals in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution
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A Client State or Great Nation: Moderates vs. Radicals in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
2023 George Rogers Clark Lecture: How King George III Could Have Won the American Revolution
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2023 George Rogers Clark Lecture: How King George III Could Have Won the American Revolution
An Allegorical Portrait of a French Naval Officer
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An Allegorical Portrait of a French Naval Officer
Visit of the King and Queen of Siam to Anderson House
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Visit of the King and Queen of Siam to Anderson House
The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
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The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Anthony Walton White's Silver Camp Cups
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Anthony Walton White's Silver Camp Cups
Statues of Nathan Hale
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Statues of Nathan Hale
Valley Forge to the Battle of Monmouth: From Colonial Rebellion to European War
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Valley Forge to the Battle of Monmouth: From Colonial Rebellion to European War
2023 Society of the Cincinnati Prize: Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
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2023 Society of the Cincinnati Prize: Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City
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Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City
A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
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A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @CheerfulFerryBoat-ug8gr
    @CheerfulFerryBoat-ug8gr День тому

    Spain was absolutely decisive in the American Revolution! Spain tipped the balance in favor of the American Colonies! 🇪🇸

  • @markwrede8878
    @markwrede8878 День тому

    Liberty is the demand of private enterprises odious to the people where they reside, like the slave trade.

  • @oskarmalbaurn2469
    @oskarmalbaurn2469 2 дні тому

    I love Abigail Adam’s

  • @danielgregg2530
    @danielgregg2530 4 дні тому

    How do you say, "I heard Amerikan girls are easy" in 18th-century German ?

  • @jussirautiainen3784
    @jussirautiainen3784 5 днів тому

    Horrible audio ... can't listen ...

  • @brealistic3542
    @brealistic3542 5 днів тому

    The American Victory at Saratoga brought the French onto the side of the Americans. A major step to Victory.

  • @brealistic3542
    @brealistic3542 8 днів тому

    You should do a video on how Robert Rogers of the French and Indian War, Rogers Rangers is a template for our Army Rangers now. The Conflict of the French and Indian war has a lot to do with what came later in the American Revolution but is often overlooked.

  • @rachelgates509
    @rachelgates509 8 днів тому

    He’s REALLY lookin at colonial representation through some rose tinted glasses!! “50% of white males ACROSS the thirteen colonies could vote” he says, yet quickly moves on, WITHOUT elaborating in the hour and 15 minutes! What do ya wanna bet that enfranchisement of the white males was pretty F-KING unequal across the colonies?!! And there is ANY NUMBER of means they could disenfranchise someone just like they did in jolly old Britain during the chartist movement of the 1840’s!!

  • @alunderwood5903
    @alunderwood5903 9 днів тому

    I would not want to take this guys class

  • @alunderwood5903
    @alunderwood5903 9 днів тому

    Wow, this guy likes to beat on Clark...he didn't do anything right according to this guy

  • @thehillbillygamer2183
    @thehillbillygamer2183 10 днів тому

    Well in 2024 I can't remember the last movie I seen with a straight white male hero character or even a main character that's a straight white male it's all girl power diversity crap

  • @cjsmithdo
    @cjsmithdo 11 днів тому

    Thank you kindly sir for your long storied service and your excellent talk

  • @dylantyt6654
    @dylantyt6654 11 днів тому

    Strange that iv studied the VOE and British east and west as well for years. only came across this information twice

  • @cattie605
    @cattie605 11 днів тому

    What an excellent lecture!! So interesting and engaging. He prepared so well, and delivers it in such a helpful way, repeatedly recapping and summarising what he's been saying, so that you really understand and retain the information. Teaching and revision in one. Masterful! Thank you to the Professor, and to ARI for uploading.

  • @alexdotalex
    @alexdotalex 12 днів тому

    Also forgetting the enclosures, and the civil war.

  • @alexdotalex
    @alexdotalex 12 днів тому

    Also forgot 16 mins in, the city of London is a free territory within the kingdom, and the home to the international banking and finance which drives the commerce, and the displacement of agricultural rural dwellers that he speaks about.

  • @jimrutherford2773
    @jimrutherford2773 12 днів тому

    The Civil War was likely the last war where a large percentage of soldiers were 17 and under. Today, we don't give enough credit and recognition to those youngsters who fought, especially under excruciating conditions.

  • @oeautobody3586
    @oeautobody3586 13 днів тому

    The constitution of America was the greatest document ever written for humans that wanted freedoms. Worked for a long time. But humans as we are many want to rule over us...some enjoy being ruled over.

  • @gvangaya5898
    @gvangaya5898 13 днів тому

    This guy is so verbose

    • @oeautobody3586
      @oeautobody3586 13 днів тому

      😂 you too, making me use a dictionary!

    • @hybeerian
      @hybeerian 13 днів тому

      Why hell i thought the guy was lo·qua·cious.........you know that Indian tribe from around the South side of Lake Erie......LoL

  • @melhewertson6710
    @melhewertson6710 13 днів тому

    P r o m o s m

  • @MOBMann
    @MOBMann 14 днів тому

    I don’t blame him for committing treason. He been getting passed up and screwed over by the sorry ass leadership!

  • @mattrearwin3138
    @mattrearwin3138 14 днів тому

    Fantastic review of national and family history!!!!

  • @ageofechochambers9469
    @ageofechochambers9469 15 днів тому

    East India company still runs America through the district of Columbia.

    • @hybeerian
      @hybeerian 13 днів тому

      Lay off the meth.....dude. That is one of the most crackpot things ever seen written.

  • @tracysrocket
    @tracysrocket 15 днів тому

    Wow. Would love to visit one day.

  • @FiveLiver
    @FiveLiver 15 днів тому

    Why no applause?

  • @SteveXNYC
    @SteveXNYC 15 днів тому

    Why did the British not go to war with India to save the TEA company?. The mixing of the Arab-Indians and the African was the offspring of the mulatto race. A diversify and mix culture are the ones who rise up against the slave trade in the Caribbean with riots and violence. It seems that the India form a treaty with the Vatican church to create wars using Britain and England. Since the Bank of England is a India creation. The Bank was able to fund wars all over the world for India benefit.

  • @FiveLiver
    @FiveLiver 15 днів тому

    Baffling how the Austrians would side with a France in anything, and especially how people loyal to a monarchy far more absolute than Britain's that ruled over disparate peoples, would favour the American cause. it's a tribute to the propaganda the Americans were putting out that such people could be fooled by what was a conspiracy of oligarchs transformed by high sounding ideals into a a romantic fantasy about liberty.

  • @SamuelHulick
    @SamuelHulick 17 днів тому

    Actually starts at 4:26

  • @shempshempleton4746
    @shempshempleton4746 17 днів тому

    Excellent presentation. Thank you!

  • @YahushaisYahuahssalvation
    @YahushaisYahuahssalvation 18 днів тому

    The rothchilds owned the British East India trade company. The same family that’s ones all central banks in the world, fund every side of every war, and created the modern nation state of Israel.

    • @hybeerian
      @hybeerian 13 днів тому

      Well we all see you failed your history exam. Lay off the crack next time.

  • @manleynelson9419
    @manleynelson9419 19 днів тому

    Socialist Gordon wood is the only intro he requires

  • @dominicgibson8477
    @dominicgibson8477 19 днів тому

    This ignorant bloke fails to mention "The Cincinnati area and the land that the University of Cincinnati has been built on is the native homeland of the Indigenous Algonquian speaking tribes, including the Delaware, Miami, and Shawnee tribes."

    • @hybeerian
      @hybeerian 13 днів тому

      WoW....and what the hell does the Cincinnati area got to do with all the tea in India???......and who gives a flying leap about the University of Cincinnati??? The Ohio State University Buckeyes would crush them in football....like the nandy-pandy punks they are.

  • @HollyMoore-wo2mh
    @HollyMoore-wo2mh 19 днів тому

    On two other videos - The maps and Lord Fairfax and Geo Washington comments were turned off. May I ask why?

  • @paulmicks7097
    @paulmicks7097 19 днів тому

    Feudalism is just a fancy way of saying slavery of people, the Romans brought the concept into the communal tribes of northern and western Europe, and over time through violence changed communalism into structured feudalism and enslavement of people.

  • @iitylernallen
    @iitylernallen 22 дні тому

    So were not the revolutionaries just terrorists and traitors? The founding fathers nothing but hypocritical asshats.

    • @hybeerian
      @hybeerian 13 днів тому

      Your really not paying attention.....are you???

  • @ncbluegrassevents1984
    @ncbluegrassevents1984 22 дні тому

    Governor Tyron was a crook. Edward Fanning was stealing from the people - taking their money for deeds and not recording them - and stealing the land. He amassed 179,000 acres. Governor Tyron did nothing except fight the people. And Governor Tyron ordered the regulators to be hung - taken down before dead - disemboweled while alive - and then cut in quarters. James Welbourn, a Regulator, sold his land for $50 to his brother in law William Spurgeon in order to not lose it to NC. And then bought it back in a couple of years for the same amount when the problems resolved.

  • @Brian-----
    @Brian----- 23 дні тому

    🙂

  • @manleynelson9419
    @manleynelson9419 24 дні тому

    Were they really dispossessing that many people indigenous in North America. What was the population of the indigenous people and how much land was there? There was a ton of land available and very few indigenous people

    • @hybeerian
      @hybeerian 13 днів тому

      Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas as high as 112 million in 1492, while Kroebers' (1960's) estimated the population to have been as low as eight million.....4m in North and 4m in South. Many disagree and think that's to low. An estimate from Henry Dobyns puts the Native population in North America at 9.8 to 12.2 million pre - 1492. Hope that helps.......and yes they really was and did dis-posse enough Native Americans.

  • @skate103
    @skate103 24 дні тому

    Ok? Ok? Ok? Beyond annoying...

  • @brianharroun7105
    @brianharroun7105 26 днів тому

    Great talk miss green!!!!

  • @user-fo2uh4rm5c
    @user-fo2uh4rm5c 27 днів тому

    British Empire and East Indian Co. conquered the United States. In 1776 USA revolted against it and declared independence on 4th July . USA since1949 set up NATO after WWlI 1945. With the dissolution of USSR, USA became the only superpower in 1992 that started imperialism invading countries in Asia , Middle East and Africa. ..

  • @kenj.8897
    @kenj.8897 28 днів тому

    So I made a comment on not voting for Marxist and it gets taken down ? So you want to be slaves again ? Black , white , yellow it doesn't matter every single person is screwed

  • @Kent12366
    @Kent12366 28 днів тому

    I went to this! I loved it! 50:43 I'm thanking Ms. Green & commenting.

  • @PartlySunny74
    @PartlySunny74 28 днів тому

    Happy Patriots Day! 🇺🇸

  • @People_of_the_Mouse
    @People_of_the_Mouse 29 днів тому

    wrong side of the line in the peace of paris is how we get columbus ohio and why so many revolutionary veterans are buried in marietta ohio.

  • @klarabildschirm537
    @klarabildschirm537 29 днів тому

    How many people were slaves? How many lived in a Kind of serfdom, having to work to pay their depts in a serfdomlike Situation ?

  • @arthurdowney2846
    @arthurdowney2846 29 днів тому

    Fascinating and Inspirational. I'm so excited to read this for myself! Thanks so much for making these talks public and free.

  • @custer2449
    @custer2449 Місяць тому

    thank you for posting.

  • @ahuels67
    @ahuels67 Місяць тому

    42:07 This sounds exactly like what the Russians said about Germany and the Germans standards of living, homes and everything in them, when they finally got to Germany in WW2. Didnt understand why people who had so much would feel the need to invade an extremely poor country like theirs.

  • @Straykidswoo98
    @Straykidswoo98 Місяць тому

    😮