The Articles of Confederation - II: Ratification - Extra History
Added 2017-05-12 17:00:00 +0000 UTCDirect Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLA_VPMsUg
The Articles of Confederation are ready! Congress sends them to the states for ratification... and the bickering begins.
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Ah, found it and listened. I'm glad that some more attention is being paid to that theatre
Jessica Cheeri
2017-05-17 15:31:20 +0000 UTCOne of our patrons here (whose Patreon handle I will leave anonymous unless they volunteer it) has a podcast that takes on one of the interesting battles of the southern campaign. The podcast is called "To Wage War" and this was the first episode in the podcast, "An Hour in Carolina." It's a new venture but you might enjoy it if you're interested in the southern campaign!
Extra History
2017-05-15 18:40:07 +0000 UTCI'm going to have to remember the southern campaign of the American Revolution next time the topic suggestions happen. It's an interesting one. Even now Charlotte NC still insists it was the first place to declare independence
Jessica Cheeri
2017-05-15 01:55:39 +0000 UTCAwesome. I can't wait until Friday then.
Jim McGeehin
2017-05-13 18:18:50 +0000 UTCI need a Walpole emoticon.
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:07:54 +0000 UTCHe won't look like him, but there are going to be references galore!
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:06:18 +0000 UTCTrue story: Lil and I were discussing this series right before it launched and I mentioned something about how often we've gotten the British flag wrong. Seized by panic, both of us rushed to our computers to confirm that this time we did NOT, in fact, get it wrong. And then felt a huge rush of relief when we hadn't.
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:06:03 +0000 UTCThe Newburgh Conspiracy is going to come up next episode! This is a great retelling, though, and I got a chuckle out of his snarky letter during the Valley Forge days.
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:04:18 +0000 UTCIt's the gentlemanly thing to do.
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:03:21 +0000 UTCReferences on top of references!
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:03:13 +0000 UTCI'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. ;) But Hamilton will be here!
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:03:06 +0000 UTCOh yes, he'll be here!
Extra History
2017-05-13 18:02:54 +0000 UTCThis is going to be a Walpole joke, isn't it?
The Cayute
2017-05-13 17:24:18 +0000 UTCNobody was financing it. That's the problem.
Timothy McLean
2017-05-13 12:31:04 +0000 UTCHe'll be back. Time has told; we remember that he was helpfully bold. Oceans rise, empires fall, with him we have survived through it all.
Timothy McLean
2017-05-13 12:30:15 +0000 UTCI wonder who financed it :)
Lucian Agnello
2017-05-13 04:21:43 +0000 UTCis Hamilton going to look like Lin-Manuel Miranda ?
Barry Priest
2017-05-12 23:53:21 +0000 UTCI am... So confused right now. You guys managed to get the right British flag for the time period. (And it's that flag that was used until some point in 1801)
Stephen
2017-05-12 21:35:00 +0000 UTCValley Forge exhibited one of Washington's core strengths as a general: his gravitas. His somber tone and clever word choice would help him time and again when things got dicey. When the people complained that Washington sat in Valley Forge not protecting the countryside (in actuality, he was training his troops with the help of the Prussian general Friedrich von Steuben), Washington wrote back with an infinitely polite yet subtly snarky message: "I can assure those Gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fire side than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and Snow without Clothes or Blankets; however, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked, and distressed Soldier, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my Soul pity those miseries." Washington used this ability throughout his career as general, as statesman, and as President. During what would be called the Newburgh Conspiracy, when the soldiers were close to mutiny due to lack of backpay because of the financial difficulties of 1783, Washington read a long speech which was received poorly, Washington took out a letter to read to them, which was a simple letter from Congress to the men explaining the current economic problems. After a few moments of struggling, Washington took out a pair of spectacles, an item that he never wore in front of his men and to which only his closest aides had been privy to, and gave a single sentence. "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." That one sentence, which brought several men to open tears, stopped what his long speech could not, and kept the Articles alive in 1783 until the Constitutional Congress.
Jim McGeehin
2017-05-12 21:20:11 +0000 UTCplunder but be polite.
schuyler
2017-05-12 19:59:09 +0000 UTCYou could say they "basically fell prey to the misconception that simply printing money was literally a way to print money." See what I did there?
Justin M.
2017-05-12 19:41:30 +0000 UTCIf I don't hear Dan singing a Hamilton song next I'll be severely disappointed
Kenneth Huang
2017-05-12 19:32:15 +0000 UTCHopefully the Day will come when we can sit back, Relax, and watch both the American Revolutionary War and the Articles of Confederation. For now I'm just happy that I backed the Winning Horse in the latest Poll for a change. I hope you understand the expression ~ I'm not referring to my actual Horse; old Dolly is a bit long in the Tooth nowadays, and does things in One of Three Speeds: Slow, slower, and stop.
Martin Verran
2017-05-12 18:55:25 +0000 UTCI guess we're getting into Hamilton next.
Aaron hutchinson
2017-05-12 18:50:37 +0000 UTCIt seemed like the right place for him. ;)
Extra History
2017-05-12 18:49:14 +0000 UTCYay! Magic!
Extra History
2017-05-12 18:49:02 +0000 UTCWoo, Walpole.
Peter
2017-05-12 18:42:55 +0000 UTCNot much to say about it other than I think you remembered correctly!
Extra History
2017-05-12 18:25:54 +0000 UTCHurrah! Yeah, I wrote them and they said they were juuust about to deploy a fix. Glad it worked!
Extra History
2017-05-12 18:25:37 +0000 UTCSeems to be fixed now!
LiraNuna
2017-05-12 18:18:54 +0000 UTCGoshdarn! I'll contact them about this. Direct link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLA_VPMsUg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLA_VPMsUg</a>
Extra History
2017-05-12 17:26:41 +0000 UTCseems patreon still doesnt like you vids, getting the error again
Erik Ensing
2017-05-12 17:24:06 +0000 UTCBagsy I First Like and Comment!!! Did you Find my Reply to your Reply to my Comment on Episode One of this Series?
Martin Verran
2017-05-12 17:00:17 +0000 UTC
