Been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats called [ speaking Foreign Language ] anybody take french . This is april 1775, right after lexington and concord, through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase. And this is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . They havent really started fighting yet. They havent started fighting yet. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else, any ideas . Some of it, this is like fury. And i have some images to show you. Theres a historian named charles roister and he coined this phrase, rage militaire. And it says, the rage militaire has taken hold on the entire continent. The americans are fighting mad. Its a wild passion. What is rage . Go ahead. Anger. Intense anger. The americans are really furious. All this stuff has been building up
[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morning, 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. Onethird to onehalf of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, rolled log huts with clay, with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the bleak, lonely whiteness, the only cover is the crimson of blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them, bitter words and bitter memories of the war against king geo
Okay, everybody. Last class we were talking about outbreak of the American Revolution. We say all this. Tension is building in the spring of 1775 in april, general thomas gage sends troops into the country side, fighting breaks out at lexington and concord. As night falls about 20,000 americans descend on boston, lay siege to the city in this war nobody wants, been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats call anybody take french . Am i pronouncing it right . Probably. Okay. Close enough. This is april 1775, so right after lexington and concord through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . This is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . Go ahead, isabel . They havent really started fighting it. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else . Any ideas . Okay. This i
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Thank you so much Nathan Alfred tate again. Thank you all so much for tuning in and please catch us at the next program and also, come to the museum come visit. To watch online, anytime a cspan. Org history. This date of history explores why and how things happen and sometimes it seems these familiars are revealed and his new book liberty, he seeks out the Hidden History of American Revolution. He is more than a thousand eyewitness accounts to constructive history and many of those are freely Available Online and the original words are leading figures of the revolution it can be found on founders online website hosted by the National Archives International Historical publications and Records Commission and children in Elementary Schools across america learn of the declaration of independence and the battles led by George Washington. Tutor 50 years the American Revolution and the outcome can appeared inevitable but engaging in defeating military powers such as Great Britain required the