Portillo's Empire Journey || British Empire - The USA and Canada || EPISODE - 4

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Michael explores how British rule led to armed rebellion in the USA, and a loyalty in Canada that lasted until the very end of the Empire. On Long Island, Michael visits The Brewster House, a former tavern where British soldiers met and talked freely during the Revolutionary War, unaware that it was run by George Washington's Culper Spy Ring. He also calls in at Fort Niagara, where he learns how the native peoples of North America saw their tribes and families torn apart as they picked sides, shedding blood on behalf of either the crown or the patriots.
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[@samuelwee1898]

An excellent series, as usual. Sensitively thought through and presented with an objective view to outlining both the ills and good bequeathed to the many nations of the world today that have experienced a shared history and heritage with Britain. Here in Singapore, an immigrant nation with a robust colonial past, we were never blind to the faults of empire but have sought to overcome them, even by leveraging on the numerous institutional foundations we inherited from Britain. We appreciate and acknowledge our common past.

[@AmbientWalking]

Happy to be here to watch the world go by with you.

[@claudettedelphis6476]

Thank you for another great adventure 🚂🚠🛰🛩🚃 Being from Montreal, I truly appreciate your voyage 🧳 Merci pour ce merveilleux voyage 🍾🥂 C’est toujours un plaisir de voyager avec vous 🍒💫🌷🌾🍄🌈🌞

[@kathyslocombe1182]

Such an amazing series....especially this one! Although my Canadian heritage is Irish & Ukrainian, I have always embraced our English history and quite proud to embrace our English beginnings.

[@rileymarc3646]

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[@lianellis2943]

@Riley Marc Instablaster =)

[@rileymarc3646]

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[@rileymarc3646]

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[@lianellis2943]

@Riley Marc No problem :D

[@LimesRickie]

As the descendant of a British Home Child I was particularly moved by Ali Thompson's story of her BHC Dad. It is a great documentary but in my view Lori Oschefski's part should have been much longer than that short little clip.

[@jixmar4757]

AMAZING KNOWLEDGE FOR ME. ALL ABOUT HISTORY OF U.S. AND CANADA. EXCELLENT !!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[@JOURNEYS7]

So nice of you :) There will be more around the World & please Support when I showcase the Knowledge.

[@p.dharmarao7087]

Great presentation with lot information

[@arumugamannamalai]

War of American independence and the role George Washington played is explained in detail and the great migration of people from Britain to its various colonies like Canada, South America Australia etc between 1860 and 1948 is also narrated well 👌

[@notlimey]

Camilla is in part descended from Sir Allan MacNab. The clip of her and Charles in the grounds of Dundurn you might say shows her visiting a family home.

[@DavidGS66]

At 31:20, map mistakenly gives Maine to Canada. New Brunswick should have been red instead.

[@otaviovieira1041]

Great video. I learned a lot.👍

[@JOURNEYS7]

Glad it was helpful!

[@davidyoung5114]

A great documentary...but why did the background music have to overwhelm so many of the segments?

[@carolsalter9002]

another great episode.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

In the First World War, when the first Canadian force to be sent to the UK before going to France, over half of them had been born in the British Isles.

[@Chiefab22]

Extraordinary

[@jixmar4757]

THANKS. I SHALL DEFINITELY.

[@miriamzajfman4305]

A Canadian proud of its English heritage ! Regards from Montreal 🙋‍♀️💌

[@megsmith5989]

Pareil!

[@miriamzajfman4305]

@D KK Canadian are not especially royalists or monarchist ,they are Canadian ! We have heritage of all the places we come from (every country of the world ) .

[@riasomers642]

I can wait

[@gilberttello08]

👍👍👍

[@dwimaludwimalu6347]

Love british🇬🇧 👌💝

[@DavidGS66]

British did well considering during US Revolutionary War, British fought Americans, France, Spain, Dutch, and Mahrattas in India, which makes American treason against British shameful.

[@nevets7152]

And they needed the ships of Jean La Fayte the pirates many ships and fighting men.

[@islandbirdw]

Interesting how English booted French from Canada but the Le Québécois got the last laugh for Napoleon

[@allangibson2408]

Quebec was part of the British empire for nine years before Napoleon was born in 1769. Louis XV perhaps...

[@allangibson2408]

@Brandon Higdon Quebec was an English Colony before Napoleon was BORN. As for slavery - French colonies practiced that until well after the English abolished it. It was abolished in 1848 (following a brief abolishment in 1794 that was withdrawn by Napoleon in 1802). Upper Canada banned slavery in 1793.

[@kevincaldwell4707]

As an anglo-canadian I did enjoy this episode, although I do wish more was shown regarding the native exploitation by the English.

[@glenvalley4326]

If only the first English settlers could have come back from the dead to watch the war of Independence(1775-1783), what would they have said.

[@mrmc2465]

The guy said we don't have an aristocracy in the US, talk about naive

[@drgonzo1971]

the US doesn't have aristocrats - they're just the "upper class." Their fortunes don't give them any rank in the government like aristocrats. We definitely have class and there's probably more social mobility in the UK at this point.

[@janiekcarney5482]

Everyone they dominated rejected them. What does that say about the English. Even Scotland and Ireland don’t want them. .

[@rickgoblok1625]

come to hong kong

[@fyrdman2185]

uhhh the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders are British themselves, they're still part of the commonwealth

[@prodigiii712]

Scotland voted to remain. And Australia, New Zealand and Canada still kept the monarchy as head of state by choice.

[@cestmoi1262]

Until 1948 Britain sent children! to other countries as indentured workers? How is that different from the concept of slavery! In my opinion slavery in the British Empire ended in 1948 not a hundred years before as you so proudly state.

[@TheMercury-13]

I agree; the forgotten slaves. Assumed my relatives left their family & emigrated by choice as adults; gutted to find they'd been *trafficked* to Canada by Barnardos! 'Better life' = code for 'UK wants to avoid paying it's duty of care, UK colonies want cheap/child labour' Our wealth is built on their misery, UK happy to profit from working poor but when the poor needed help, they sold their kids. Disgusted & heart-broken by what UK Govt has done; I knew they kidnapped people off streets in 17th-18thC to sell as slaves to USA plantations, but didn't realise they were still at it up to 20thC, albeit now disguised as 'charity'.. 🤮

[@williamorchard16]

@@TheMercury-13 They didn't7 sell them. Stop being so melodramatic

[@trevorfuller1078]

Indentured labourers were not forced or coerced to work or accept contracted labour conditions! They were never ‘Chattal Slaves’ or anyone’s disposable or moveable personal property! Admittedly, it wasn’t an ideal set of circumstances, by any stretch of the imagination, I grant you but many people who worked as indentured servants & labourers went on on to open their own businesses & own their own properties in the lands to wherever they went or subsequently moved to. Many such workers came originally from the Indian Subcontinent or China. Subsequently, many successful commercial families came to find success & prosperity in the new lands & homes & societies in which they had relocated, the Tamils in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the East African Asians in Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda (The latter until the Tyrannical dictator Idi Amin forcibly expelled them all 50 years ago that is!!), Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, the other Caribbean countries of the Commonwealth & elsewhere too, all have very prosperous & prominent members of their respective Asian communities there in each as fellow respected citizens! These were people who made the best of bad situations & took their opportunities & eventually succeeded & prospered dispute obvious hardships, disadvantages & a myriad of obstacles & problems that first beset them & well done I say to them too for having the guts & the gumption for doing so & not bothering to complain unnecessarily about things too!! Many countries in Asia & Africa now (Particularly India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Philippines & more recently China & Indonesia) actively encourage many poorer sections of their respective citizenry to engage in overseas contacted-Labour Service schemes overseen by their respective governments’ ministries of Labour & or Foreign Affairs etc in conjunction with accredited private companies & recipient countries Labour & Immigration Ministries in the Middle East, SE Asia & elsewhere across the Globe today!! This is the modern or contemporary form of indentured labour that is accepted & encouraged in many parts of the world & it’s all done under the ILO’s auspices at the UN! 🇺🇳

[@chriscarrol9373]

At around 15:30 why Taliban made flying kites illegal and Americans laughed and showed ignorance. Learn history it could save you one day.

[@drgonzo1971]

31:14 - wow Channel 5 is claiming Maine for the UK, time to invade them and teach them what freedom really is

[@marycahill546]

Greetings from Canada. British host would like to remember the positives of legacy of British colonialism. Note he did not visit Ireland. They will never forget serfdom to British aristocrats and the Famine -- it doesn't fit the narrative.

[@mariusooms3831]

Ireland is in the #Portillo series #HawkesAndDoves

[@fyrdman2185]

yet you live in a country created by the British.

[@prodigiii712]

Ireland was part of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was not a colony, it was part of the union. Some people are so negative and miserable.

[@marycahill546]

@@fyrdman2185 The French were here before the British.

[@fyrdman2185]

@@marycahill546 the French were in Quebec. The Canada we know is one created by the British from its institutions, it's laws, the way of governing things etc. You're just mad cause the Irish haven't accomplished anything worthwhile so that's why you have to come to migrate to countries British people set up

[@janiekcarney5482]

I haven’t forgiven the British.

[@Chiefab22]

Why

[@williamorchard16]

who cares?

[@voulathomacos-lagonas8445]

Australia should hold a referendum as soon as possible and become a,Republic

[@williamorchard16]

For your information we had one in 1999. It was defeated

[@bostonblackie9503]

This guy thinks Britain and England are synonymous. Completely ignored Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He is ahead of his time not to far in the future it will be England all on it's own. Also do the people in other countries realise how the British, in this case England, treated it's own. Look at the East End of London, there where places like that in major cities all over Britain.

[@TheMercury-13]

He's a tory MP; maybe not the worst, but by nature out've touch. People complain of 'what the British have done' but are ignorant how bad British *Govt/ruling elite* also treated the British! From 17thC they were kidnapping them off streets & selling them as slaves to 'the new world' never to see home or family again, & the w'class left here slaved all their lives in dangerous jobs to make UK rich yet couldn't afford medical care & either died young or in a workhouse! (researching family history can be very depressing) Breaks my heart what's been done, by those with power who wern't fit to have it.

[@TheMercury-13]

If I were Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish I think I'd want independence - as it is I'm Northern English & I'd love independence from a Southern-centric Govt who never give a monkey's about the North. If Scotland or Wales leave, I vote to go with them; maybe have a border somewhere near Birmingham? 😁

[@prodigiii712]

Much better than how Nigeria treats its own people and at least unlike the Sub Saharan Africans Europeans didn’t sell their own people as slaves to people from another continent.

[@jonmce1]

This is bullshit. The Mohawk joined the British side because they thought would be most advantageous to them. The British did not give away their land they did not control it the Americans did. The Mohawk had lost their bet and at the end of the war, they were starving and only surviving because of British handouts. The Leaders of the revolution declared all men particularly white men equal but not equal in voting rights and set up an intentionally undemocratic constitution. The claim that slavery lasted until 1834 in Canada is simply wrong. The Canada's at the time included Ontario and Quebec only and for all practical purposes, slavery had been eliminated or at least had no legal standing. The law phasing out slavery in Ontario was written in 1793. They didn't forgive, the British the people who own slaves in the Canadas had long gotten rid of it so there was nobody alive to forgive. You have to kidding the class system was alive and well in the US you just had a different upper class. The leadership of the revolution where almost all of the wealthiest Americans and they built similar larges houses except in many but not all cases the lower class were slaves. Note the 1837 rebellion in upper Canada was put down by Canadians not the British. Many even of the reformers opposed MacKensie. Even MacKensie who ultimately returned to Canada said had he known what the US was like he would have never rebelled. More BS most Canadians don't know about home children and the country was not built on the backs of kids. There has been an entire cottage industry built on these kinds of claims. The kids were sent to homes because the parents were not going to keep them or couldn't afford them. They usually were put with farm families and were expected to work of course just as every farm kid is expected to work. Were some abused certainly, some family members were also? If you want to have an example of such a situation in literature, try Anne of Green Gables. My family had a relative who was a home child. The society in Canada did not as suggested be controlled and manipulated by Britain. They created a society that was more egalitarian than the US or Britain. WW1 was an eye-opener for Canadians who returned to fight the war they found a class-ridden society that was not theirs. Canadians tend to be rule followers which Americans confuse with following authority and Brits with themselves. We tend to not follow individuals.

[@PaulBeet]

My very distant relative, Joseph Brant died in 1807 in Burlington, Ontario. What I´ve read is that he came to Lower Canada with one slave from the US and died, having about 40. Perhaps some one knows more about this than I.