Any descendants of James Armistead Lafayette?? Reach out to Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution to perpetuate his story!!

It's a Pennsylvania long rifle or Lancaster rifle Kentucky was not the manufacture of long rifles at that time.

You're kimd of an a$$ to assume it's untrue as flippantly as you could assume it's true based on the evidence you had. I will skeptically look at anything from you in the future... ken.

My direct ancestor. The family motto “God, I fear no other.”

HE IS ANCESTOR OF MINE.AM MYRIAM PUTNAM.

you mean lithuanian. Read his testament written in america he refers to himself as lithuanian.poles stole our hero.

Col Arnold did Not lead the Canadian invasion, simple facts, , but please continue educating without facts

ASSASIN'S CREED

Good job but the pronunciation of his name is drivin me nuts lol

What was the name of the video of the commonwealth

It's very funny that this video accuses Spain of "nearly" killing all the indigenous populations when it was in fact the newborn nation of the United States the one that actually killed the indigenous population. Go find a single Indian, if you can, in the territories of the 13 colonies....you won't find a single one.....The only Indians you can find in the US today live in the States that were Spanish territories before. Spain mingled with the Indians. The US killed the Indians and brought Africans to work for the new nation. When Mexico became independent in the 19th century, 60% of its population did not speak Spanish, but Nauhatl....If the Indians "had been killed" how come they were still speaking in the 19th century...?🤣 Galvez should have taken over the whole 13 colonies, not just Pensacola, many Indians of the Eastern coast of the US would be alive today...

Nothing screams bias like displaying an image of lucifer while describing a historical figure. Perhaps if you had used more stereotypical buzzwords to defame the actions against documented canibals, this video would be more than just a 20-minute hit piece with obvious aims to slander American history.

Thanks for making a video on my ancestor!

Fore fathers 😮

Oh why make up something of this to not be true . Her fathers troops didnt wake themselves . She rode it all right .

My grandmother was a Putnam, she told me about some kind of an onion vs dynamite duel.

Why didn't you talk about his trek across pa.to ohio

Do you have any intention of making a video about his famous brother James Sullivan, 7th governir of Massachusetts? He actually did quite a bit during the war as a judge for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was Hancock's attorney general

Apparently everyone here is a cousin of Tallmadge

Super underrated channel 👏

Have you any certainty about Daniel Morgan's parentage? It's often said that he was a cousin to Daniel Boone and served with him in the French and Indian War. However, Daniel Boone's mom was Sarah Morgan of Berks, PA. And it's alternately stated that Edward Morgan, Daniel Morgan's father, had another sister Mary who wed a John Wright and was the mother of Perth Amboy merchant and Loyalist Captain William Wright who'd sailed Loyalist families from NYC to New Brunswick in 1783. Daniel Boone is the only other name on a deed record in North Carolina with that of a Wright family there, those undoubtedly descended from Quaker Wrights who spread southward from Nottingham, PA. Edward Morgan of Welsh ethnicity is named General Daniel Morgan's father in some reports, though none of these are statements are proven to me. But the potential link between the Canadian Wrights and the Southeastern Wrights of Scot-Irish descent still waits to be proven, and it seems possible if the Boone and Morgan kinships hold water. Can anyone offer Brigadier General Daniel Morgan's origins with something to back it up, other than more baseless articles? This video and a FamilySearch tree claim another Morgan as Daniel's father. Facts and docs?

Methinks it's General Sir William Howe...

In addition to Saratoga, was phenomenal what he, Francis Marion & LIght Horse Harry Lee accomplished under Nathanael Greene in the South.

Definitely give this a read! Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge by Thomas Fleming

I recently travelled to Boston and visited the remarkable places Concord, Lexington , Boston Tea Party Ships and USS constitution. Nowhere this young girl was mentioned. To me, this a more extraordinary deed than Revere's was because of her youth and riding the distance at night. Rever's ride was encouraged too, but not to compare

Thanks for sharing 😊

I wanted to expand on this reply to a comment - No doubt, Von Steuben was a gift from the heavens. A man trained by Frederick the Great himself, in the way of the Prussian General Staff and well capable of literally writing the book in the single most important professional aspect of warfare that amateurs fail to the grasp the import: operations and logistics; a true professional. Just shows up and offers his services. Lafayette got a square in DC and we remember him fondly, maybe for the revolution he took back home, maybe for his unbridled enthusiasm for liberty, but in the beginning and in the end, he was an amateur. Baron von Steuben was the professional who almost single handedly professionalized what became the US Army, *despite itself.* I grew up on an Army airbase/heliport in Germany where the main strip was Von Steuben Strasse (street), I don't think any Army brat, any Army officer worth his salt or any NCO who appreciates the traditions of the Army doesn't know who Von Steuben was. A part of me says it's okay that he's not known to the greater public because that makes him ours. A revered figure that is a shiboleth of a sort of whose knowledge is admittance into a club of those professionals for whom history and tradition is important - not just practitioners of the art, but keepers of the institution. Besides, it makes for good storytelling. How the lieutenant-general of the quartermaster corps (to be read - LT (general) of quartermasters vs LT (cavalry) of quartermasters u or LT (infantry) of QMs) was mistaken to mean LT General, like with stars and shit. And how later on, when he deigned to instruct the manual of arms to recruits himself, properly, the men were like, "Holy fuck, here's a soldier, a LTG under and an aide-de-camp to Frederick the Great (who unquestionably the greatest modern general of all time - Napolean hadn't happened yet) drilling recruits, like a sergeant. That is how you lead a man, right there!" His respect among the troops came to demonstrative head when he was place in charge of stopping Lee's disastrous retreat at Monmouth. Eventually given command of the entire left wing of the formation, several brigades, Von Steuben had the men execute a wheeling pivot, a complex maneuver even for a professional European army. Under harassing (sporadic) fire. Troops unhesitatingly obeyed his orders and marched in parade ground precision. Alexander Hamilton was later quoted to have remarked that until that day, he never really understood the true value of military discipline until he witnessed the change come over troops in the way they were handled by an officer in whom they had absolute trust and confidence. THAT was the value of Von Steuben. The United States military carries those values into battle today, because every soldier who goes into battle goes on the attack knowing the full weight and might of the entire United States military is behind him

Shtuyben. It's pronounced SHTUYBEN. FREEDRICH. FREEDRICH VILLHELM Von SHTUYBEN.

Spain won the American Revolution! Period! France alone could never have won the war without Spain!

Mit anderen Worten haben wir Deutschen die Unabhängigkeit den Amirikanern ermöglicht , denn er hat der Rebellenarmee eine preussische Ausbildung gegeben.Nach dem 2 Weltkrieg haben die Amerikaner die deutschen Lanzer in die Rheinwiesen , ohne ein Dach , ohne Toiletten , ohne Nahrung eingesperrt . Damals starben nach dem Krieg 1,5 Millionen Soldaten , Krankenschwestern in diesen Lagern. Sie wurden wie Tiere behandelt. Das wird gerne verschwiegen , denn der Deutsche ist ja immer der böse Nazi . Wir haben unsere Geschichte genügend aufgearbeitet , wann tut das mal der Amerikaner mit seiner kurzen unrühmlichen Geschichte .

The very first foreign weapons for the American Revolution arrived from Spain in February 1775 to Marblehead Massachusetts by Diego de Gardoqui and family! 300 Spanish muskets and 600 Spanish pistols! Spain also paid for the Yorktown campaign paying both the French and Continental soldiers who hadn't been paid for several months and years causing several mutinees and also paid and refurbished DeGrasse's French fleet allowing DeGrasse to travel to both the Chesapeake and later Yorktown which Spain also had a huge role in the military planning which is why the Spanish Ambassador was invited to the Yorktown victory celebration in October of last year 2023! Spain protected French possessions in the Caribbean allowing DeGrasse to travel to his destination freely without worry and it was Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez who was kind and generous enough to release his own French troops under Spanish command and ALLOWED DeGrasse to take them to go reinforce Rochambeau at Yorktown! Bernie didn't have to do that but he was very generous! Spain also sent muskets to Saratoga in coordination with the French in 1777! In fact, one link suggests ALL weapons at Saratoga were Spanish! Spain sent weapons to the American Colonies inside French ships from France! Whenever the ships arrived everyone assumed the entire cargo was only French lol! Spain did so much for American independence!

To be fair, Washington the victim of French/Indian War guerilla tactics, was well aware of the strategy; and more-so the ineptitude of militia. From the start he avoided pitched battle with British regulars who's officers bemoaned the tactic. General Howe (I think) once remarked "If we could put the rebels to the bayonet this war would be over." Alas they never got close enough for bayonets.

Just found out I’m related to him. This video was a really nice way to connect with My heritage.

It is canonical that Bruce Wayne is related to Anthony Wayne. fun fact

I'm a direct descent through his neice Melissa Jane (Dack) Audus.

The plethora of modern “morals” interjected in this video on Wayne are very nearly overwhelming. But as we are revisiting history, let us not forget that by fact or even modern romanticism, the “Indians” are NOT native. The oldest Indian lore tells of genociding the red-haired giants who inhabited America before them. Further the Mound-builders had the mound building skills of Europeans, used European tools (including Solutrean & Clovis arrowheads made in Europe!), and are believed to have come from modern Brittany. The modern version of mainstream history claims the Indians came across an ice sheet to get to America, making them migrants as well. So perhaps the Mound-Builders who came across the European ice sheet are Indigenous to the culture they created on this continent, as the Indians are indigenous to the what they created out of their own conquest of the continent. That said, my many times grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran, and an Indigenous American (being indigenous to the nation they created from their own conquest). It’s sad that the Indians showed no mercy in their conquest of America, because the Indigenous peoples they genocided would have been interesting to hear from on this subject. Still an interesting video, even including the dance and mental gymnastics one must do to be accepted by KZbin.

I really appreciate you making this video. I'm a Dickinson and doing my ancestor research learned of the life of John Dickinson. I will be educating my kids about what an honor it is to carry that name. Your video will be part of that. Well done, very good presentation of, what could be mundane, fact citing paired with context. The story telling aspect made it so much easier to comprehend his involvement. The chronological \ biographical nature of the presentation was the missing element to my findings leaving more questions than answers. I can't imagine the hours of work prepping these presentations you make, but it doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated. 🙏

I think you are confused on a few important details. He did not create a nation. He created a confederation. Each state was already politically sovereign. They created a union not a single nation. Under a more perfect union, he urged that we stick to tradition and keep the states politically sovereign though more binding power was given. Madison wanted to reduce the states to territories. This was rejected and the new constitution remained a federal and not a national plan of government.

Nice. There is not enough information about this man.

Amazing story. Hard to fathom why this is the first time hearing this. It makes sense that Cornwallis was duped into a trap at Yorktown, and essentially James basically set the whole thing in place. The guy needs a monument.

I believe he had multiple partners who lived with him! Great piece

Thank you.

Já assisti este vídeo várias vezes.

He is my ancestor

WILL RECREATE THE RIDE

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The “Twin Bridges” of I-87 in New York near Saratoga are named for him. The video also shared a monument to him that is displayed in the Saratoga Historical Park.

Was he doing it for just personal gain, fame and fortune? Could be true but in his own words his "only object" and "greatest ambition" was to "render your Country all the Services in my Power, and to deserve the title of the Citizen of America by fighting for the Cause of your Liberty."

The middle school I attended is called Daniel Morgan Middle School. It's in Winchester VA.

Just found out today that I am a direct descendant of daniel morgan.