Today well focus on the Continental Army and this is were situating this very much in the broad history of war and the military, and the Continental Army in a lot of ways is different from other armies that have preceded it, largely because its one that is very much based on ideals and certainly the concept and beliefs rather than sort of your traditional army. So what is the kont minutal army . Where is it, first of all . America. America, okay. So the Continental Army is based in america and it will become the first United States army, but before it was the u. S. Army, it is the army of america, yes. Certainly part of the American Revolution specifically and the united colonies. So when the Continental Army begins its not necessarily the start of the revolution and well begin the story in the beginning of the war. A couple of classes ago we were talking about the french and indian war, and the french and indian war was a war thats fundamentally altered several different nations that
And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will be washington. Sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. Photographed images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. Of course we have images of fdr. We even have images of him in his wheelchair. Generally the press di
A panel of historians looks at various aspects of the revolutionary warera military. Topics include George Washingtons and how historians use a soldiers personal memoirs or journals. By the society for historians of the early american republic. I want to welcome you. Have for very young historians today, so i feel a generation or two beyond. I will introduce them in a moment. Before i do, a word or two on why we are actually here. All of our historians are specialists on the American Revolution with a particular interest in its military aspects. As you learn from listening to them, their approaches for the for independence very considerably. There is no microphone here. We will hear remarks about gender, personal narratives, the influence of revolutionary statery service and formation. It, i think our panelists are going to illustrate the Central Point of all military history and that is the field encompasses virtually all perspectives historians can bring to bear. Military organizatio
We set aside our political issues from. The next couple weeks his military history. Here is the thing. There are certain challenges they are going to encounter. What are some the things you can see them having problems with . What the end up doing, theyre the ones that miss out. Unless you are doing civil war. This is the way it usually works. Usually get their perspective. We will see that a lot in this world. You have a lot of the patriots stop. One the reasons i had to read the free chapter we see get the british perspective. The version is a little bit different. There was not a lot of certainty with whom one what battle. You run into some uncertainties. Again, lots of different perspectives. You may have some bias. They like to make themselves look good. You have to be really careful. You know you do not take everything that faced by. He also had to be careful with the military guys. Anything else . Also have issues with how theyre trying to reconstruct the battle. So much is goin
Opened by nhs england its thought more than 50,000 certainly disappointing . Really disappointing for fans. Children have a problem. Coming up on afternoon live rafa benitez is off. Probably more disappointment all the sport ben croucher. For newcastle fans than shock. Benitez has been a hugely popular good afternoon. Newcastle united are looking for a new manager, maybe not figure at stjames park. The Biggest Surprise but no less they did well to attract a manager of his calibre. Disappointing for the fans, rafa benitez and the club have failed to he had won the champions league, agree a new contract and he will managed hugely successful leave officially at the end of the clubs like real madrid, inter milan and liverpool. He joined them back in 2016 month. When they were relegated and chris fawkes with the weather. Brought them back to the premier league and kept them weve got big thunderstorms coming there despite not having a huge for the next few hours so i will be kitty to be able