Today, were going to 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, a lot of ways, is different from other armies that have preceded it, largely because its one thats very much based on ideals and certain concepts and beliefs rather than sort of your traditional army. So, what is the Continental Army, what is it . America. America, okay. Continental army based in america. It electrical but first United States army, but before it is the u. S. Army it is the army of america, yes. But what element . Certainly part of the American Revolution. The united colonies. Yeah, the united colonies. So when does the Continental Army begin . Its not necessarily with the start of the revolution. But we are going to pick up the story with the beginning of the war. So, a couple classes ago, we were talking about the french and indian war. And the french and indian war was a world war that fundamentally alt
Dies after a fall. A scare in the air, passengers brace for impact after a plane engine covering comes off, mid flight. Top dog has been crowned west minister dog show. Best of show is bishon. Todays morning minis sponsored by penn abramsons Cancer Center the number one Cancer Center in the region. We will have more on that dog coming up later in the this half an hour. Lets check the forecast. Katies outside on the sky deck, good morning. Good morning to you both, happy valentines day everyone. We are looking forward to a milder day and pretty quiet, tame, through the overnight we did have a quick batch of frozen precipitation of various varieties, and that came through, specific to the mountains, and northern mostly high valley, looking at loop over last three hours you will see this coming through here far north so even though there is nothing currently falling, say for maybe monroe county, i would worry about possibility have black icing. Just putting a heads up call out to the eyew
Deliver west point to the british offers insights. He talks about british and american participants after the plot was uncovered. This was hosted by colonial williamsburg. Its about an hour. Thanks so much for that warm welcome. Im really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from Northern Virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately thats not the case. You have to keep checking your assumptions. If your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. I would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous, although somewhat ribald as well. Heres the story. The smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye, said, well, im off nowment the man will be here soon. Half an hour later, just by chance, a baby photographer happe
Nothing this this room can change. To my left down the block is the colorado river. This is an important site in the citys history. This is where waterloo was. It was a cluster of cabin occupied by four or five familieses including j. Carol. Im standing at the spot where the cabin was. This is where Mirabella Mar was when he and the rest got word of a big buffalo herd in the vicinity. They jumped on the horses congress avenue wasnt the avenue. It was a muddy ravine then that led north to the hill where the capitol sits. The men galloped on the horse s. They stuffed their belts full of pistols and rode into the midst of the buffalo firing and shouting. Lamar at 8th and Congress Shot this enormous buffalo. From there he went to the top of the hill to where the capitol is. He told everybody this should be the seat of a future empire. Watch our oh eventses from austin saturday at noon eastern on c arespan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan 3. During thi