Posted on 10/27/2015 1:34:56 PM PDT by 100American
Strange. They are to me too. They weren’t before.
In any case, try them here:
Liberty! The American Revolution Part 3
(EPISODE 3: “The Times That Try Men’s Souls” 1776-1777)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSAtHAb1xC4
Liberty! The American Revolution Part 5
(EPISODE 5: “The World Turned Upside Down” 1778-1783)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suiPcydMBd8
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
From me you get a Canadian perspective, but really from a Canadian interested in the truth, not what our royalist education teaches us. From what I can understand there initially was major support for George among the Parliament and at least some support from the population after various insults from the colonists. But the excitement quickly waned with the public who wondered whether the cost was really worth it. Many Whig thinkers were already against it and more joined those ranks as they were truly alarmed by the unilateral action of their King. Eventually Parliamentarians pushed out the pro-George faction in the Cabinet. I am sure English schools teach a very different version of the American Revolution, probably skewed towards Tory beliefs, and later, generally anti-American sentiment.
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