Der at eight an mat i then a ceremony marking the exact time 150 years ago that generals grant and lee met to discuss terms of surrender. After that is correct well hear from two living historians who portray the generals at the ceremony. And later, remarks on the leg of appotomax with historians. Each week american artifacts takes viewers to his forrics sites around the country. On april 9th 1865, confederate general robert e. Lee met ulysses s. Grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia effectively ending the civil war. Next we visit the confederacy in a appotomax appotomax. Welcome to the museum of the confederacy of appotomax. Im listened de lipt lipscomb. The museum hare opened three years. We are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890 opened in 1896 in richmond virginia. We house here a lot of aircraft facts that were from the confederates. Well tell you how we got some of the artifacts. Here we tend to focus on appotomax because we are in the locati
Enabling [inaudible] its minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. The Water Treatment plants. Im not sure why we were doing it. I think its something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. If you give them cool stuff, they will like. You a. If you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. And so if you build stuff inside the city but dont control the city, guess what, they will claim it. But the larger problem is if you dont have security, it doesnt matter how much people like you. Theyre not going to come over to your side if they get killed for doing it. Theyre not suicidal. Theyre not going commit suicide because they love a Water Treatment plant. So you have to have basic security. And to establish basic security. You have to have men with guns on the street 247. Its the es
Closer than it does now. What is now washington as you walk that end, that was the neck as you come and from now the south bend into boston. This was an island and one of dozens of islands that occupy gigantic boston harbor. They had ships scattered throughout the harbor in strategic areas and cap the entrance opens so that they could get revisions whether they be from england or from canada. This meant even though they were completely surrounded by land boston as it british occupy a garrison is going to starve. So it became a stalemate that then erupted into violence in the battle of bunker hill in june 1775. And this was a battle like none other. It was a terrifying cater for those not only living in boston but in towns around because all of the roofs of boston were filled with people watching as more than 2000 british regulars made their way across the harbor into the Charles River to the charles town financial and began the assault that would erupt into the battle of bunker hill. S
Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca
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