Gunpowder and the Revolutionary War: The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes

[@TheMormonPower]

Sometimes you learn something new. Even more than most people know today, we really owe a lot to the French for victory in the Rev War.

[@mikeburch2998]

That we do. However I still like taking cheap shots at them. :-) Thank you France.....

[@ki-td5yb]

It was France's last decent act. After that, the Napoleon Wars, followed by the 1870 Franco Prussia War ending with the siege of Paris. That war produced Germany that became the European hegemony, and France has been irrelevant ever since 1875.

[@michaellaverty1844]

We bailed them out in WW2 to return the favor.

[@aaron5632018]

We don’t owe them anymore, we paid them back on the beaches of Normandy

[@chancewebster7953]

Frankford Powder Mill was the only operational powder mill in North America when the war began. British captured it when they took Philly.

[@manchuriangeneral5832]

found this through an ad, glad that youtube is giving me the ads that actually makes sense. subbed

[@SuperPhester]

Thank you ABT: Excellent video!

[@CRuf-qw4yv]

Interesting they were allowed to touch-off that much powder in an antique furnished area in the demonstration.

[@fishinglunkies3629]

I was thinking the same thing!! Not those priceless pieces!!

[@billboth4814]

It is a commonplace among Civil War reenactors that bayonets were rarely used in the Civil War. This was due to the superiority of rifled muskets compared to previous wars.

[@daegudiva]

Very Interesting

[@rogerharris8081]

I wonder how modern Goex black powder would compare to the French gunpowder?

[@pigybak]

we paid them back in WW II.

[@nora22000]

We still owe.

[@ki-td5yb]

Both worlds wars. The two turning points: WW1 Bella Wood. The second time was Normandy. They owe us.

[@nora22000]

@@ki-td5yb lol...Like a lot of kids, we Americans are ungrateful to our parent, France, who did so much they could have assimilated the 13 scraggly little colonies as an addition to their New World holdings. We owe them our actual existence. Can't get any more indebted than that...

[@ki-td5yb]

@@nora22000 That argument collapses from numerous accounts. Three in particular: Seven Years War (created the American identity) and The War of 1812 (The British tried to take over the country.) Third: Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy to brought France into the war. Without Franklin, France wouldn't give a f*** about the US Revolution.

[@datguy8006]

Can’t forget when they invaded Mexico and spit in the face of the Monroe Doctrine when the States were at their weakest. Can’t forget the only thing that stopped their intervention in the Americans Civil war was not having the UK to join them otherwise they’d have no problem splitting the States in two. After that betrayal ww2 wouldn’t even had been necessary the aid in ww1 would have been more than enough for the states to have paid their debt. nora22000 sweetheart dear boy, my guy your trolling. You gotta be. To seriously think they’d still be owed something would be nothing short of delusional. Being grateful and believing they are still owed are different things.

[@torpedo58]

Veeeeery interesting!!😉👍

[@fukemnukem1525]

Viva La France!

[@leecaptis5865]

Where did the DuPont's figure into all this ? Their gunpowder mill was very close to the Battle of the Brandywine in 1777. I have taken the tour of that mill called The Hagley Museum. Coincidently , the mill is ON the Brandywine river.

[@oldline1775]

I don't believe the DuPonts were making gunpowder in the colonies during the Revolutionary War. Pretty sure they came to America a few years after the war was over and got into the gunpowder business in the very early 1800's

[@levanisikharulidze1138]

Woo, I did not know that

[@stevenpeyton7476]

Nice, Viva la France!

[@pablononescobar]

3:51 That's the wrong fleur-de-lis. That's the red and white of Florence, Italy--France is gold on blue

[@savanahmclary4465]

It's amazing, that there was not more battles, between England and France, on North America? What America paid for the American Revolutionarys' gun powder from France? Just curious?

[@Lisahough4738]

Oh my ..have you forgotton my great great great great great grandfather lenoard hough (HUFF)who General Washinton highly recommended and praised for his munations factorys he set up to make american Gun Powder, better than french or british powder..facts! So you all got a lot left out.

[@JeagerTank]

Thank you to France.

[@warrenarmour]

Hello. Quick question. Can you produce a new video on the Civil War from start to finish, tge battles and dumb it down. My Hustory Professor said stories should be told as if telling a 3rd grader. I know the video will be long, but will be great to tell a modern story if the whole Civil War. It was not jyst a war for slavery. Thanks.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

How’s this? www.battlefields.org/learn/maps/civil-war-animated-map

[@warrenarmour]

@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust perfect!!! THANKS!!!

[@dbach1025]

Still not refraining from the Frog jokes. Hey, anyone want a WW2 French Rifle? Never fired and only dropped once.

[@The762nato]

The 7000 French troops came to the Last battle which caused the British to surrender, with out them we would have lost that battle and the war ,, ! Hence we have numerous city's and counties in the US with French names .

[@jchoward6451]

Their ships, which stood between Cornwallis' troops and the British fleet prevented an escape, forcing Cornwallis to surrender.

[@The762nato]

@@jchoward6451 Never heard about the ships .. will look that up .

[@jchoward6451]

@@The762nato Hmm ... seems maybe I mis-remembered. Articles say the British ships never reached the capes, or that maybe they were too late, nothing about the French fleet - which was nearby having unloaded the troops you mention - having interfered. I'll check some more.

[@davidkuhlman8004]

yes Eau Claire Wisconsin Lafayette township

[@BadringerGronger]

Hahaha good thing we don’t use Gunpowder anymore