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[@rijlqanturis625]

Even to this day, 250 years later, the name Benedict Arnold is still synonymous with being a traitor.

[@ExUSSailor]

John Paul Jones is the man known as the Father of the U.S. Navy. He died, and, was buried in Paris in 1792, in a rather unremarkable grave. When the U.S. built it's Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1845, they started trying to find his remains. They were located in 1906, and, brought back to the U.S. in 1913, where he was re-buried in a rather impressive crypt under the chapel at Annapolis.

[@GritsandBiscuits]

So glad you reacted to part two. To explain the "never heard of him" joke about Benedict Arnold. Even now the name is associated with being a traitor and untrustworthy. It's an insult to be called that.

[@meltedplasticarmyguy]

Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben, AKA Baron von Steuben, is the father of the US Army. He made many reforms to the fledgling military to create a formidable fighting force. He wrote our first military manual, of which some of his concepts still survives today in the modern manuals. He was given American citizenship after the war, and settled on a large estate in New York state. He is often forgotten as a founding father. Without his aid, our military would have eventually crumbled, and with it a strong chance Britain could have won the war. As a soldier, I will never forget his contributions.

[@Darvec]

From 1718 until the Revolutionary War Britain transported its convicts to America. This stopped during the war, and their prisons were overflowing. After the war, the Brits decided to create a new colony to replace the America they lost, and began sending their convicts halfway around the world to Botany Bay.

[@ryantannar5301]

The French were vital. Marquis de Lafayette was a French military commander whose help made the difference between the US winning and losing. To give you an idea of how huge the impact was, during WWI shortly after the US entered the war, an American colonel went to Lafayette's grave on July 4 1917 and is recorded as having said "Lafayette, we are here". Over 100 years later America came back to honor what the French did for us.

[@PerthTowne]

Enjoyed watching your reaction to that. And yes, the French were a decisive factor. I'm not sure the US would have gained independence when it did without the help of France. The Marquis de Lafayette was a French military officer who fought alongside the Americans in the Revolution, and he and his troops were with Washington at the decisive Battle of Yorktown, where the British surrendered. Today in the US, many towns, counties, streets, are named Lafayette or Fayette in his honor. If you're interested, Oversimplified has a good video on the American Civil War.

[@mikesba]

Next, search for Oversimplified’s American Civil War, WWI, WW2 & the Cold War. There’s also the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, etc. There’s even a War of the Pig. All are amusing but informative.

[@angiepen]

Someone in comments to Part 1 suggested you watch The Patriot, which is set during this war. Jason Isaacs' character in that movie, Colonel William Tavington, is heavily based on Bannistre "the Butcher" Tarleton. They didn't really have to exaggerate much to make the audience despise his character.

[@codygates7418]

Fun fact the first country that recognized US independence was Morocco. Our Treaty of Friendship with them has never been broken for 2 and a half centuries. 😊

[@dmwalker24]

Maintaining economic relations with Great Britain was something both sides were wanting/expecting even during the war. Anyway, it's strange to me that now the French tend to get a lot of shit from Americans, and vice versa. I mean yeah, they did it to kneecap the Brits, but they were there for us when it mattered, and it made a huge difference.

[@davehelms1398]

Fighting started in '75, but was mostly over by 82, it took 6 years for the country to get organized and adopt the constitution (1789) but that was mostly peaceful period, until the British tried to take everything back in the War of 1812-1814. PS, once the Brits lost the Georgia colony, they needed a new place to send their prisoners, so they sent a group of convicts to 'Botany Bay', thus Oz was founded.

[@francishaight2062]

Fun reaction! Y’all might enjoy Oversimplified’s American Civil War also. Thanks!

[@jeffburnham6611]

It's a bit much to suggest that France saved the day. While France certainly sent aid to the Colonies, they did so covertly. It wasn't until the Battle of Saratoga that France officially declared its support for the United States. But other countries sent aid as well: Spain and Holland. All three of them (Spain, France, and Holland) were opportunistic, meaning they had no love of the British and by aiding the Colonies in their goal for independence, made the continuing fighting by the British very costly as their attention was split facing multiple adversaries.

[@gmunden1]

If you look at a map of any of the 13 British Colonies in America, you will notice many areas were named for British monarchy, British soldiers and British towns, especially in and around Philadelphia. Towns were also named for the French, Germans, and all European countries involved in the Revolutionary War. Many towns were occupied by Welsh Quaker settlers in the 1600's, as well as other European nations who remained after the war.

[@davidruby6240]

The war ended in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. Then there was a period of the states being a Confederation, which was a weak union. In 1787 or so the Constitutional Convention was called to form a stronger government and after ratification by the states the first election was in 1888. Washington was sworn in in March of 1789

[@vancouvervixen4253]

Loved the reaction… don’t ever be afraid to say you don’t know something even if it makes you feel “silly” to admit so, even many Americans don’t have a clue about much of our own history. Just glad you’re interested. Impressed you caught the Benedict Arnold reference, few do. My comments: 1) this was a war in which men literally marched BAREFOOT through the snow at times, and surviving valley forge… I’ve lived in the northeastern US my whole life and I genuinely cannot imagine what those brutal winters were like. 2) George Washington was extraordinary… flawed, human, but extraordinary. 3) saying the Native Americans were “pitted against each other” is … well wildly simplistic and slightly off paste, they were absolutely brutal to each other and I think it’s intellectually dishonest to suggest that they were simple minded pawns (yes, I know it’s an oversimplified video, i just think it’s unnecessary and inaccurate).

[@Ira88881]

One other point, in case you’re at all really interested in this.

[@caffexd]

Loved the reaction!

[@CaseyinTexas]

At the Battle of Saratoga, Arnold received a wound to his leg which gave him a permanent limp. in 1887, his "sacrifice" was noted by a statue of a boot, but only mentions a brave American officer who was wounded, but still led his troops to victory. There is an apocryphal story that Arnold asked a prisoner what would happen to him if he was ever captured by the Americans. The response was that his leg that was wounded in the service of the nation would be cut off and buried with all military honors and the rest of him would be hung as a traitor..