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
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Troops. There is only few fragments of that statue that have survived. Its a great story. American up next on artifacts in the second of a twopart visit to philadelphias museum of the American Revolution, Vice President of Stephenson Scott leads us on a tour of the exhibit galleries covering the 17761778. We asked visitors in the gallery four big questions. The first of those questions is ow did people become revolutionaries. When they come back to the iii, they king george should be able to that question f how they become revolutionaries. The second question how did the revolution survive its darkest hour. While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and accusations and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition headed ean history is towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eye witness epiction which weve blown up as a mural showing five british 6,000 britishabout and hessian troops in landing to land on manhattan base on sept