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Looking for really good Revolutionary War resources?

Posted on 01/07/2016 9:42:45 PM PST by Politicalkiddo

I'm looking for really in-depth resources about the Revolutionary War for my own personal knowledge. Documentaries, books, etc. Thanks in advance. :)


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To: Politicalkiddo

The US revolution It is just part of an ongoing podcast, but I highly recommend the Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan. Same guy who did the History of Rome Podcast. Revolutions covers the various revolutions that have occurred around the world over history.


21 posted on 01/07/2016 10:43:43 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives

Those are some good podcasts. For me, my mind tends to wonder listening to an audio book or podcast, thus I prefer the written word over the spoken one for my own deficiency.


22 posted on 01/07/2016 10:47:19 PM PST by gusty
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Great to find another admirer of Morgan. I agree he was worthy of the MOH had it existed. The brilliance with which he set the trap at Cowpens with the river at his back is really an astounding example of his magnificent strategy. What a leader of men! Makes one sick to think about our “leaders” today, mostly wimps!


23 posted on 01/07/2016 10:50:16 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Politicalkiddo

Anything by Richard Ketcham for the Northern Theatre and “The Road to Guildford Courthouse” on the Southern Theatre. The two volume “Philadelphia Campaign” was very good.


24 posted on 01/07/2016 10:51:19 PM PST by gusty
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To: Politicalkiddo

And please don’t forget that young Frenchman wwho did so much for the American cause. lafayette was worth every honor he received and more too. His life was filled with many hardships, prison time, and the death of his beloved wife whom he married at the age of 16. She was 14. They were devoted their entire lives. After her death, he never married again and always carried her portrait with him. Off the subject of the revolution, but encompassing, because he was married when he left for the revolution in America because he believed in our cause. Gravely wounded at Brandywine, he played cat and mouse with Cornwallis in the south. There were more Frenchmen at Yorktown, than Americans.


25 posted on 01/07/2016 10:58:54 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: gusty

I prefer the written word too. there is something about holding a book, turning the pages, that is special.


26 posted on 01/07/2016 11:00:04 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

I could never forget Lafayette. I greatly admire him.


27 posted on 01/07/2016 11:03:34 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("Even peace may be purchased at too high a price." -Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Politicalkiddo
The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
October 2, 2003
by Barnet Schecter

Hardcover, New from $19.09 - $5.34
Paperback, Used from $12.95 - $3.83

http://www.amazon.com/The-Battle-New-York-Revolution/dp/071263648X

28 posted on 01/07/2016 11:38:56 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Politicalkiddo

The American Revolution - Liberty PBS series

LIBERTY! The American Revolution is a dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation. The George Foster Peabody award-winning series brings the people, events and ideas of the revolution to life through military reenactments and dramatic recreations performed by a distinguished cast.
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EPISODE 1: "The Reluctant Revolutionaries" 1763-1774
In 1763, the capitol city of America is London, George Washington is lobbying for a post in the British army, and no one thinks of Boston harbor when they hear talk of tea parties. In a dozen years, the colonies are on the brink of rebellion. What happens to bring this country so quickly near war with England?

EPISODE 2: "Blows Must Decide" 1774-1776
A total break from Great Britain remains hard for Americans to imagine, even after shots are fired at Lexington and Concord. Words push matters "Over the Edge" in 1776. Common Sense argues that it is the natural right of men to govern themselves. The Declaration of Independence declares this same idea a "self-evident" truth. For Americans, there is no looking back. There will be war with England.

EPISODE 3: "The Times That Try Men's Souls" 1776-1777
Days after the Declaration of Independence is signed, a British force arrives in New York harbor. Washington and his troops are driven to New Jersey. With only a few days of enlistment left for many of his volunteers, a desperate Washington leads his army quietly across the Delaware River on the day after Christmas, 1776, to mount a surprise attack on a sleeping garrison in Trenton.

EPISODE 4: "Oh Fatal Ambition" 1777-1778
The "united" states remain in dire need of funds and military support. Congress dispatches Benjamin Franklin to France in hopes of creating an alliance which will provide both. Meanwhile, a British army marches down the Hudson River trying to cut off New England from the other colonies. The British are crushed by Americans at Saratoga. The French enter the conflict on the American side.

EPISODE 5: "The World Turned Upside Down" 1778-1783
The British hope to exploit the issue of slavery and to enlist the support of loyalists in the south. They fail. After a series of brutal engagements, the British army heads for Virginia, only to be trapped by the miraculous convergence of Washington's army and the French fleet at Yorktown. The end of the war is at hand.

EPISODE 6: "Are We to Be a Nation? 1783-1788
Peace comes to the United States, but governing the world's newest republic is no simple task. Congress is ineffectual and individual states act like sovereign nations. By the time the Constitutional Convention convenes in 1787, many wonder if the country can survive. The long ratification process helps define what sort of nation the United States is to be a process that continues to this day.

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EPISODE 1: "The Reluctant Revolutionaries" 1763-1774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_lTDD6jpw

EPISODE 2: "Blows Must Decide" 1774-1776
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIT_GL-Y5hQ

EPISODE 3: "The Times That Try Men's Souls" 1776-1777
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSAtHAb1xC4

EPISODE 4: "Oh Fatal Ambition" 1777-1778
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae6XknOqceI

EPISODE 5: "The World Turned Upside Down" 1778-1783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suiPcydMBd8

EPISODE 6: "Are We to Be a Nation?" 1783-1788
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-PShTiGk9g

Note: should any of these episodes be removed or otherwise inaccessible, try this link to the Y.T. search results for the series:
https://www.youtube.com/results?lclk=long&filters=long&search_query=liberty!+the+american+revolution

29 posted on 01/07/2016 11:42:54 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Politicalkiddo

“Saratoga” by Richard M. Ketchum is quite good. Lots of details on events leading up to and during the campaign.


30 posted on 01/07/2016 11:55:32 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Politicalkiddo
Here is a link to a free PDF of a US Army History of the Revolutionary War: Army CMH Other histories, articles, and monographs can be found using "American Revolution" as the search term: Army CMH search

Such official history material is usually highly reliable as to the facts and written in serviceable but undramatic prose .

31 posted on 01/08/2016 12:01:30 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: fella
The Spirit of Seventsix is a collection of letters and eye witness accounts that is especially good. Because of the difference in language from then to now keep a good dictionary handy.
32 posted on 01/08/2016 12:05:50 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Politicalkiddo
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33 posted on 01/08/2016 12:18:50 AM PST by IwaCornDogs ("There Will Be Bamboozeling" ~ Nobama 08')
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To: Politicalkiddo

Evyil whitey wanted to keep down brown skinned people and steal all the resources from the injuns.... -Obamanation


34 posted on 01/08/2016 12:33:17 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Politicalkiddo

later


35 posted on 01/08/2016 1:08:58 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Organic Panic
Evyil whitey wanted to keep down brown-skinned people...." -Obamanation

When will these African nations ever apologize or pay "reparations" for slavery? Better yet, when will they end the practice?

Slavery in modern Africa

Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans - as did a slave trade that exported millions of sub-Saharan Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.[1] However, slavery and bondage are still African realities. Hundreds of thousands of Africans still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves.

Modern-day enslavers also exploit lack of political will at the highest levels of some African governments to effectively tackle trafficking and its root causes. Weak interagency co-ordination and low funding levels for ministries tasked with prosecuting traffickers, preventing trafficking and protecting victims also enable traffickers to continue their operations. The transnational criminal nature of trafficking also overwhelms many countries' law enforcement agencies, which are not equipped to fight organized criminal gangs that operate across national boundaries with impunity.

Slavery by African country

Chad
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports children being sold to Arab herdsmen in Chad. As part of a new identity imposed on them the herdsman "...change their name, forbid them to speak in their native dialect, ban them from conversing with people from their own ethnic group and make them adopt Islam as their religion."[2]

Mali
The Malian government denies that slavery exists, however, the slavery in Timbuktu is obvious. Slavery still continues with some Tuaregs holding Bella people.[3]

Mauritania
A system exists now by which Arab Muslims -- the bidanes -- own black slaves, the haratines.[4] An estimated 90,000 black Mauritanians remain essentially enslaved to Arab/Berber owners.[5] The ruling bidanes (the name means literally white-skinned people) are descendants of the Sanhaja Berbers and Beni Hassan Arab tribes who emigrated to northwest Africa and present-day Western Sahara and Mauritania during the Middle Ages.[6] According to some estimates, up to 600,000 black Mauritanians, or 20% of the population, are still enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.[7] Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007.[8] Malouma Messoud, a former Muslim slave has explained her enslavement to a religious leader:

"We didn't learn this history in school; we simply grew up within this social hierarchy and lived it. Slaves believe that if they do not obey their masters, they will not go to paradise. They are raised in a social and religious system that everyday reinforces this idea.[9]"

In Mauritania, despite slave ownership having been banned by law in 1981, hereditary slavery continues.[10] Moreover, according to Amnesty International:

"Not only has the government denied the existence of slavery and failed to respond to cases brought to its attention, it has hampered the activities of organisations which are working on the issue, including by refusing to grant them official recognition".[11]

Imam El Hassan Ould Benyamin of Tayarat in 1997 expressed his views about earlier proclamations ending slavery in his country as follows:

"[it] is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Quran ... [and] amounts to the expropriation from muslims of their goods; goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave."[12]

Niger
In Niger, where the practice of slavery was outlawed in 2003, a study found that almost 8% of the population are still slaves.[13] Slavery dates back for centuries in Niger and was finally criminalised in 2003, after five years of lobbying by Anti-Slavery International and Nigerian human-rights group, Timidria.[14] More than 870,000 people still live in conditions of forced labour, according to Timidria, a local human rights group.[15][16]

Descent-based slavery, where generations of the same family are born into bondage, is traditionally practiced by at least four of Niger's eight ethnic groups. The slave masters are mostly from the nomadic tribes -- the Tuareg, Fulani, Toubou and Arabs.[17] It is especially rife among the warlike Tuareg, in the wild deserts of north and west Niger, who roam near the borders with Mali and Algeria.[18] In the region of Say on the right bank of the river Niger, it is estimated that three-quarters of the population around 1904-1905 was composed of slaves.[19]

Historically, the Tuareg swelled the ranks of their slaves during war raids into other peoples' lands. War was then the main source of supply of slaves, although many were bought at slave markets, run mostly by indigenous peoples.[20][21]

Sudan
Francis Bok, former Sudanese slave. At the age of seven, he was captured during a raid in Southern Sudan, and enslaved for ten years.(Courtesy Unitarian Universalist Association/Jeanette Leardi)

There has been a recrudescence of jihad slavery since 1983 in the Sudan.[23][24]

Slavery in the Sudan predates Islam, but continued under Islamic rulers and has never completely died out in Sudan. In the Sudan, Christian and animist captives in the civil war are often enslaved, and female prisoners are often used sexually, with their Muslim captors claiming that Islamic law grants them permission.[25] According to CBS news, slaves have been sold for $50 apiece. [1] In 2001 CNN reported the Bush administration was under pressure from Congress, including conservative Christians concerned about religious oppression and slavery, to address issues involved in the Sudanese conflict.[26] CNN has also quoted the U.S. State Department's allegations: "The [Sudanese] government's support of slavery and its continued military action which has resulted in numerous deaths are due in part to the victims' religious beliefs." [2]

Jok Madut Jok, professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, states that the abduction of women and children of the south by north is slavery by any definition. The government of Sudan insists that the whole matter is no more than the traditional tribal feuding over resources.[27]

It is estimated that as many as 200,000 people had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The slaves are mostly Dinka people.[28][29]

South Africa
Despite significant efforts made by the South African Government to combat trafficking in persons the country has been placed on the "Tier 2 Watch List" by the US Department of Trafficking in Persons,for the past four years.[47] South Africa shares borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland. It has 72 official ports of entry "and a number of unofficial ports of entry where people come in and out without being detected" along its 5 000 km-long land borderline. The problem of porous borders is compounded by the lack of adequately trained employees, resulting in few police officials controlling large portions of the country's coastline.

Child slave trade
The trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin.[30] The children are kidnapped or purchased for $20 - $70 each by slavers in poorer states, such as Benin and Togo, and sold into slavery in sex dens or as unpaid domestic servants for $350.00 each in wealthier oil-rich states, such as Nigeria and Gabon.[31] [32]

Ghana, Togo, Benin
In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.[33] In this instance, the woman does not gain the title of "wife". In parts of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, shrine slavery persists, despite being illegal in Ghana since 1998. In this system of slavery, sometimes called trokosi (in Ghana) or voodoosi in Togo and Benin, or ritual servitude, young virgin girls are given as slaves in traditional shrines and are used sexually by the priests in addition to providing free labor for the shrine.[34]

Ethiopia
Mahider Bitew, Children's Rights and Protection expert at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, says that some isolated studies conducted in Dire Dawa, Shashemene, Awassa and three other towns of the country indicate that the problem of child trafficking is very serious. According to a 2003 study about one thousand children were trafficked via Dire Dawa to countries of the Middle East. The majority of those children were girls, most of whom were forced to be sex workers after leaving the country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified prostitution as the Worst Form of Child Labor.[35]

In Ethiopia, children are trafficked into prostitution, to provide cheap or unpaid labor and to work as domestic servants or beggars. The ages of these children are usually between 10 and 18 and their trafficking is from the country to urban centers and from cities to the country. Boys are often expected to work in activities such as herding cattle in rural areas and in the weaving industry in Addis Ababa, and other major towns. Girls are expected to take responsibilities for domestic chores, childcare and looking after the sick and to work as prostitutes.[35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa

Or,

http://web.archive.org/web/20160108090835/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa%3C/a%3E

36 posted on 01/08/2016 1:13:22 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Organic Panic
The Price in Blood
Casualties in the Civil War

At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000.

The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation’s loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.

The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc: 250,152
Total 360,222

The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc: 164,000
Total: 258,000

http://civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm

37 posted on 01/08/2016 1:14:40 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Politicalkiddo
The Continental Congress, A definitive history of the Continental Congress from its inception in 1774 to March, 1789, by Edmund Cody Burnett, 1941.
38 posted on 01/08/2016 2:07:44 AM PST by Jacquerie ( To shun Article V is to embrace tyranny.)
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To: Politicalkiddo

The series Walt Disney did on the Swamp Fox, and other historical figures. It is fabulous! The episodes are available on You Tube. If I’m not mistaken there are 8 on General Francis Marion.


39 posted on 01/08/2016 3:09:25 AM PST by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: Politicalkiddo
in addition to the prior suggestions:
40 posted on 01/08/2016 3:35:50 AM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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