How did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Because, of course, while all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing 5000 british warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on manhattan baynd in kept bay kips on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i thought all london was afloat. So, it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many, many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form
How did the revolution survive , its darkest hour . While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing british 5000 warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on Manhattan Island in kips base on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i afloat. Ll london was it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form of the british army. We have a really e
Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t
Investigative team from news 4 to help ushe fix t problems. The head of the Medical Center answered tough questionss from the oveht committee and announced fixes are in the works for what youre about to see. Over the next half hour wereou taking y inside our investigation to dissect how the scandalirst erupted and what has changed since. Among the tens of thousands of men and women who walked through these drs in the last year i was having complicationsth wi multiple sclerosis. What the doctors saw made clear to them they needed admit nu. Righeeded to stay there. Right. Last 4th of july the airconditioning failed inside. And the temperature w unbearable. 36 s later youre walking out. Right. One of a series of problems in the last threeea y. We found temperature problems, also spoiled thousands of flu ots, and ruined supplies in the blood bank. There were also supply sportages, some so severe doctors cancelled procedures. One patient had to be aken from anaesthesia because they couldnt
A lot has changed since the first time around. True that. Then fatherdaughter duo danny and lucy devito uncensored, and we learn all about dannys dad fail in vegas. Zuri keanu reeves girlfriend, alexandra grant, opens up for the first time on their love for each other. And were at home with keke palmer, as she gets ready for a very special night. From Universal Studios hollywood, access hollywood starts right now. [instrumental music playing] kerrys family shocker. Welcome to the Weekend Edition of access hollywood. Im scott evans. And im zuri hall. Kerry washingtons new memoir, thicker than water, is out now, and carrie told our producer and guest correspondent emily orozco about the bombshell revelation she makes in the book about her dad. Kit hoover has the story. You share a revelation about your dad that starts with a text message. It was about five years ago, and my parents sat me down and shared this really revelatory news with me. They told me that my dad is not my biological f