Tag: English Revolution
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The Guns of Ticonderoga
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we left off last time with Britain and her American colonies more or less on the brink of war. And indeed, over the winter of 1774-75, there were multiple opportunities for the war to break out. But being civilized 18th century gentlemen, everyone decided it was best to wait…
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The Boston Tea Party
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. In the seven years since the end of the French and Indian War, relations between Britain and her colonies had gone through a few cycles of depressing antagonism, neither side really understanding what the other was up to or why. But now that the fervor over the Townshend Acts was…
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The Townshend Act
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we ended last time with the demise of the Stamp Act, which had done so little to raise revenue and so much to infuriate the colonies. But the British Government’s pullback from the Stamp Act had been a retreat, not a surrender. And this week we will walk through…
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The Stamp Act
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As I said at the end of last week’s show, the story of the American Revolution begins with the end of the French and Indian War in 1763. Now, that does not mean that it was all downhill from there, and there were a number of different points along the…
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The New World
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Okay, welcome back to the show. We are now, as you know, jumping a 100 years forward and 3,000 miles to the left to play out the tumultuous drama of the American Revolution. A tumultuous drama that occasionally parallels and sometimes even explicitly recalls the tumultuous drama of the English…
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The Kingdoms of Charles Stuart
Hello and welcome to Revolutions. In 1625, Charles Stuart became King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born in 1600, Charles was the second son and third child of King James VI of Scotland. The young Prince spent a sickly childhood overshadowed by his dashing older brother, Henry Frederick, and his vibrant older sister,…
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Our Puritan Forefathers’ War on Christmas
The holiday season is here and that means it’s story time! We all know the story of the Pilgrims, right? The Pilgrims were English settlers who established the Plymouth Colony in 1620 after fleeing religious persecution back in England. The Pilgrims’ story plays a central theme in the history and culture of the United States.…