youtube recommended this to me late at night to go to sleep listening to this

I love this vintage old reenactment of the battle of Yorktown video.😀

Very thankful that videos like this are loaded up to watch!

God i love this Land.

@imjusttoodissgusted5620

4 жыл бұрын

@Stefano Dawg every day,! for the children or the enviroment are the words it starts with now.

This film was made in October, 1974 at Yorktown VA for the NPS by the 1st Maryland Regiment, the 9th Virginia, the 2nd Pennsylvania/43rd of Foot, and Regiment Von Ditfurth.🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

Truly a wonderful and amazing sight! One of a bucket list of places I'd like to have visited if the portals of time were opened by God to me.

I was there! 1st continental regt PA.light company (Thompson's rifle battalion)

@paultoy9611

4 жыл бұрын

While I was not there my family was chiefly responsible for the entire affair as I'm a descendant of the Henry family.Patrick is my sixth or seventh grandfather on my mother's side.My sister became a DAR member several years back as she submitted the necessary proofs.I'm in the process of becoming an SAR member presently.

the final victory didn't come until 1783, when the Marquis de Lafayette sailed under orders of the French king and by Rochambeau's directions with a combined Spanish-French army of 25,000, to seize British possessions in the Caribbean then come to the "aid" of the Americans. Neither the British nor the Americans welcomed this, for different reasons, so they signed the Paris agreement, ending the war. But it was another nine years before all of General Clinton's soldiers left the New York area. The things they didn't tell you in school, or at the theatres.

@peterderiemer3854

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry can't check your dates,1783 is when the last Brit troops left New York!

@nwofoe2866

4 жыл бұрын

it's true what I wrote. At Paris, Britain was demanding exclusive trading rights - i.e., they could set buy-and-sell prices for everything, obviously to their advantage and to the impoverishment of the Americans, also enabling them to stay on top of European rivals. America's leaders were still fond of Lafayette - he was welcomed back decades later and many towns named after him - but at this time, they understood him to still be a young man under the orders of Rochambeau and the French King. America had nothing to match the army Lafayette was bringing, and the French had old scores to settle w/England there in North America.

"Many of the British who return to England will come to believe ..." but there are British in Wales and Scotland as well as England.

Sweet Land of Liberty

The original Three Percent. Thank God th colonies had men like that.

Is the narrator Richard Basehart, by any chance? It surely sounds like him.

@nikkolettguyer4913

4 жыл бұрын

1stPCFerret no it is William Conrad

@1stPCFerret

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikkolettguyer4913 thanks for clearing that up.

@chrislauterbach8856

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikkolettguyer4913 I recognized his voice right away, but couldn't put a name to it until you identified it. I remember his role as Cannon.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith Paris Nov. 13. 1787. the people can not be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong [. . .] will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure.

@paultoy9611

4 жыл бұрын

Jefferson hated my ancestor Patrick Henry.He advocated praying for his death to James Madison in a letter.He only grudgingly gave respect to Patrick because Henry wanted him investigated for fleeing Virginia while governor.Jefferson held the grudge until death and badmouthed Patrick within two years of his own death in 1826.

@txnetcop

4 жыл бұрын

@@paultoy9611 Don't feel bad he hated seeing the rowdy Irish coming to America. Even though my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War

@paultoy9611

4 жыл бұрын

@@txnetcop Jefferson also hated Patrick because Henry was an anti Federalist.Henry wanted to improve inter cooperation between strongly sovereign states but was against the proposed Constitution because he felt it massed or gave too much opportunity to mass federal power.I believe my ancestor was correct.He only became subject to the idea after he leveraged inclusion of a Bill of Rights.Henry,because he was an anti Federalist, I believe is short changed as being a much more instrumental foundation to USA freedom.All people usually reference about him is the "give me liberty..." speech when he's much more involved as I already mentioned in the battle over what our nation is to become re the Bill of Rights.He was also key to beginning the yearning for freedom by his Stamp Act Resolves in 1765.