Next on American History tv, from the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis, maryland, for historians discuss the challenges of naval logistics for the Fledgling Navy during the revolutionary war. The scholars detail how the American Navy successfully cooperated with a much larger french navy to help defeat the british by 1781. This u. S. Naval Academy Program is about one hour and 20 minutes. Professor smith good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. This is a session on naval logistics and the American Revolution. My name is gene smith and i will be the chair. Today we have three papers and comments by dr. Glenn williams. Our first paper is by tom long, who is an assistant professor and coordinator of history in the department of George Washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches
And coordinator of history in of georgement washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches courses in early American History, constitutional history, military and naval history, and today he is going to offer you a paper. Water everywhere istics of the 1975 17751776 campaign. Professor long is a pleasure to be here with you today. Im going to do this a little awkward. Before dawn in 1775, john murray, the fourth earl of dunmore was forced by rebellious virginians to abandon the capital in williamsburg and flee with his family. He fled to the protection of the British Royal navy. The Chesapeake Bay watershed, his territory, was critical to the war effort. The American Revolution interrupted in april of 1775. Virginia was the most populous and profitable of all the colonies in british north ameri
Syracuse happened to be one of the smaller ones because this was a swampy area. One thing that the canal did is it rain drained the swamp and that allowed for a lot of commerce to take place here. We have buildings all the way up and down the south side of the canal that would have storefronts facing the canal and storefronts facing the land. Things would be brought from the land to supply, and it was a very efficient way of carrying on business. Just about everything that could be purchased at the time was purchased in syracuse and was carried here by boat from other parts of the world. One thing that comes to mind is hats. They could buy a hat that was me here, they could i had that was made in england. What was shipped out of here was salt. We had salt springs here. A lot of salt was shipped out of here. This building was constructed in 1850 two way the votes that were carrying cargo on the year he canal. A fee was assessed for the weight of the cargo. Every vote was weighed at the
To the hudson river and went to new york city. Settlements on the frontier. One thing that the canal did was , and made itmp possible to build a larger settlement here. It also allowed for a lot of commerce to take place. We have buildings up and down the south side of the canal that are called double anders. They the storefronts facing the canal and the land. Material would be brought in off the boats and things would be to supplyom the land the bottles. It was a very efficient way of carrying on business. That couldeverything be purchased at the time was purchased in syracuse and carried here by boat from other parts of the world. One thing that comes to mind is hats. They could buy a hat made here or england. What was shipped from here was salt. We had salt springs and a lot of salt was shipped out of here. Building waslock constructed in 1903. A fee was assessed for the weight of the cargo. Every vote was made at the beginning of the Navigation System and each time it carried cargo
M3 of the comment and executive session any Public Comment on executive session spewed of the comment is closed executive session. Moved to move into executive session. We will now move into is there a motion t reconvene in open session speaker moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Next item item 6 pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] uptake of lipid of pride to welcome by her former colleague black. Nice to see you commissioner. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones pagers and similar accounting devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing of or use of cell phones, pagers or other similar electronic device. Please be advised that member of the public has up to 3 min. To make personal public almonds on each agenda item before the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Item 8 of the comment not listed on the agenda.