Watch The Battle for North America | Part Two

[@history_by_lamplight]

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen on the Seven Years' War! Great job! :)

[@squared4440]

It’s insane how great this is you really get a sense of scale of the conflict as well as learning useful tidbits ( that are especially useful for an upcoming exam ) Good stuff!

[@geoffburrill9850]

Fascinating. Didn't know anything about this war, it isn't tought in British schools.

[@crouqetoo2]

it was taught in Scottish schools, certainly in the 1940s/50s

[@minuteman4199]

It isn't really taught in Canadian schools any more either.

[@gray3553]

Woke history teaches, mustn't offend our French friends 🤣

[@ronclark9724]

Woke history is more concerned with climate change and world equality than any nation's military history...

[@agin1519]

@@gray3553 Well, also mustn’t be reminded that the King went mad and lost the colonies. Not much point having a founding myth about the jewel of your empire which you’ve lost!

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

It's ironic that the 2%tax which made the colonies revolt against the Crown, was put there to help pay for a war that Lieutenant Colonel G Washington started when he was a soldier in the British Army. Crazy world.

[@welshman8954]

Yep all because they didn't want to pay tax to there king if we had actually bothered to try we would of done in 1776 what we did in 1812 and burnt there capitol to the ground just because we could

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

@@welshman8954 Yes I know,but that's not how we do things and the only reason the White House got torched was because of the U.S.burning the government buildings etc in Toronto.

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

@@welshman8954 I do take your point though.👍

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

@@welshman8954 Where have you gone?

[@txgunguy2766]

Then, immediately following the Revolution, the first thing Congress did was levy a tax on the production of whiskey which resulted in the Whiskey Rebellion. This is what permanently soured the relationship between the US government and " small scale independent distillers"(moonshiners).

[@_x4858]

Dan Snow is my new favorite historian, been binging all his stuff here lately. Keep up the good work!

[@dannydm2133]

how this doesn't have 30 million views is beyond me

[@jang3412]

Thank you for this video. I was given the bare bones of this at school, but this has given me so much detailed information. Again thank you!

[@TaleOfTwoIdiots]

You just made a History Hit sale, Dan. Great video.

[@ianmarsden1130]

What a great piece of work. Thank you very much.

[@tim01263]

Dan Snow has recreated the best of the history docs the BBC used to put out on primetime slots.

[@Indigenous-English-Man]

The band played the Grenadiers March the men tuck off in a mad and wild charge. Anyone who’s heard the grenadiers march will understand 🇬🇧✝️

[@shahidnawaz8380]

Was in Quebec recently amazingly impressed by city

[@xanbex8324]

Very well done....thank you!

[@mdkramster]

Excellent docu. Taught me something. Thank you very much.

[@rpm1796]

Bravo, I remember well when you and your father first did a series on the campaign.

[@geoffreypereira8024]

The US colonies didn't rebel because they no longer "feared" Canada. One of the first things they did in the war was try and enlist it as the 14th colony. They took Montreal and then failed to take Quebec. Washington wrote an appeal to Canada to throw off the British yoke, 1,000 Canadiens enlisted in the Continental army and served through the war, though most chose loyalty to Britain. The taxes angered the American colonies because thousands of New Englanders had fought for the Crown in this war, hundreds were casualties. Their reward? Tax laws that they had no say in passing. When they asked for representation in Parliament, they were told "no."

[@aidanodonnell1344]

Thoroughly enjoyed this, how about a documentary on the Battle Of Minden? A great example of the power of close range British musketry.

[@ospreycove]

Enjoyed that very much! Would like to see more Canadian content.

[@gregoryperlin9044]

This was very well done

[@HistoryHit]

thanks!

[@thesaltysergeant4103]

An amazing account of the failed attack on Quebec city at first until the attack at the plains of Abraham.

[@shahansindhi8141]

Documentary are getting better! No doubt!

[@haraldisdead]

Every north American should watch this.

[@jacobtracy7847]

The whole time Dan's speaking I keep hearing "and the ferocity of the French taunting...". Thanks Monty Python.

[@stayhungry1503]

incredible how the french could let themselves get taken by surprise like that, you'd think they would have sentries all along that river

[@crouqetoo2]

Bard of Wolfe's Army James Thompson, Gentleman Volunteer, 1733-1830, well worth a read, deals with a number of significant battles, before ,during and after the Battle for Quebec, plus a good account ot the life of the Highland soldier in Wolfes army.As a youngster, I was taught that Wolfe had fought at Culloden and despised his Highland adversaries. Thompson puts that thought to bed. Wolfe according to Thompson admired his Highlanders.

[@johnnysac5753]

Awesome documentary!

[@jamesewanchook2276]

Dan, great presentation. Please do an episode on our burning of Washington during the war on 1912!

[@jamesewanchook2276]

yes I know... 1912 was a typo.

[@mobilecivilian6124]

@@jamesewanchook2276 You do know you can edit right?

[@snoozeyoulose9416]

Well put together documentary.

[@John-wt8bp]

Wish you’d do a video on the war of 1812

[@rowandixon2106]

Excellent doco! 👍🏽

[@tonythompson4816]

Fascinating History, I have an newspaper article of my 3x Great Grandmother tell a story of her Great Grandfather who fought under James Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec. I dont have a name unfortunately. She was born in Ireland.This mentions British soldiers, what would it cover? If there is any list of men who was at that battle , I would love to get my hands on it.. Can anyone advise me on it? !

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

I'm sure my 5x Great Granduncle James Wolfe appreciated him.

[@Trecesolotienesdos]

Mr. Snow, you are as good a history teller as your father was an election presenter. 👍👍

[@douglasmachawk7436]

No mention of the Fraser Highlanders, that scaled the cliffs, nor of Wolfe’s dismissive attitude towards their possible deaths. ( James Wolfe's assertion in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham that Scottish soldiers should be sent into battle because "they are hardy, intrepid, accustomed to a rough country, and no great mischief if they fall." )

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

Or how they were the ones who went back to save the grenadiers after the debacle at the Montmorrency falls.

[@crouqetoo2]

Bard of Wolfe's Army James Thompson, Gentleman Volunteer, 1733-1830, Douglas, nothing could be further from the truth, read it and get the first hand version, not the one we were taught in school.

[@brett76544]

What is funny, in Pennsylvania, the English common law and colonial laws are still valid if they have not been replaced. Even to a point of passing a law to say so.

[@mickharrison9004]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@EnglishSaxons]

@@mickharrison9004 make England Great again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@jonser20cent68]

Thanks!

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

I would have loved a mention of the Battle of Ste-Foy in the spring of 1760 when the French troops, militia and indigenous allies had the brits running and surrounded Québec city, waiting to see who would get reinforcements first. While the battle on the plains of abraham is often depicted as the final straw of British conquest of North-America, Ste-Foy the following year marked the very last battle of the conflict in the area of Québec. Only the arrival of British ships down the St-Laurent once the ice melted did secure the British victory. The odds were very much in favour of the British given the precarious situation of the French in Europe. They simply couldn't afford to spend reinforcements for Canada. Nonetheless, the French, Canadians and indigenous did hold for quite some time despite being gravely outnumbered and having to defend a much larger territory. None of this would have been possible if not for the ability of the French to adapt to the guerilla warfare of their indigenous allies. The battle of Monongahela of 1755 is a great example.

[@paulshrew]

9.07 filming location in 'catch me if you can' where Tom Hanks gets arrested for printing fake money.

[@brentlund2272]

NO mention of the ROYAL MARINES !

[@mickharrison9004]

Yeah well said they were the top squads back then 🇬🇧

[@jean-louislalonde6070]

Notice how the Wolfe dying painting represents Christ being taken down the cross. No, there was not a single native on the scene when he died. As for the Traité de Paris, signred in 1763, since this was a world war fought on many theatres, the negociations could have gone in any directions. France could have decided to keep Canada and relinquish the west Indies, or its African colonies.

[@alanrosebush5245]

Please remember that Washington was able to defeat the British with the significant assistance of the French

[@olivermoore7020]

The British artillary bombing of Quebec almost sounds like Dresden...

[@ericst-laurent8161]

Boff it is the French army which lost on the plains. Not French Canadians. French Canadians won a place in the British Empire. 😉

[@samb1123]

I hope there's no poison ivy in that shrubbery he was grabbing to climb that hill.

[@mobilecivilian6124]

This war. Is the war that taught Americans how to fight the British Empire.

[@davidsoulsby1102]

Not sure why he seems to emphasise the defeat, even revel in it to a point. The UK had lots of defeats, they also had a huge empire to defend. Fighting multiple wars all around the world at the same time... what do you expect to happen when the enemy is the same people as you. It could easily be described as a civil war just not in the UK itself. All told it didn't really harm the empire, it still had Canada, areas of west and south of north America. In words from a press clipping of the time, we can forget all the trouble they caused and concentrate on dealing with the problems in Europe (approx).

[@shahansindhi8141]

People who knew nothing about war preferred the French commander Montcalm because of his accent!

[@canadiantinkerer3958]

1:13 they were vaping back then already! haha

[@cayjones2966]

Enjoyed this series however , the film depiction of the artillery is way off base .

[@johnashleyhalls]

Yes, my logo on the left of this comment is a snapshot of a NATO map from the Cold War. One of the few times when attendance made a difference.

[@iangrantham8300]

Good Grief..the city had LESS than 8,000 inhabitants.

[@etiennesauve3386]

The problem I have with this documentary is that you don't see the french point of view. Montcalm was not a good general because he could not use his troops properly. The french army was mainly composed of militia that were used to fight indian style war or guerrila. Still, Montcalm used them in an like regulars with the result that we know. Montcalm had also ordered Lévis to reinforce Montréal, leaving Québec more vulnerable. When you talk about a conflict an only take the point of view of the victor, you are biased

[@magnaviator]

Quebec had substantial fortifications, they should have just dug in.

[@Strawberry-12.]

The problem was supply. And the fact the Brits would have had a great bombardment position on those heights

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

Montcalm sure made a gamble in sallying out. There is also the fact that Bouguinville and his cavalry was Merely hours away from Québec when the British attacked. Had he been there, the outcome might have been different too.

[@johnashleyhalls]

The greatest achievement of the 1759 combat is that both commanders died as a result of the combat. Any modern leaders want to live up to that bravery? Maybe go and work in retail during COVID? Maybe go out training with the military in Feburuary in the Northern hemisphere? Possibly assisting in a hospital I.C.U. or emergency room? Hello leaders, political or business. Your economy, our lives!

[@johnpayne5985]

Good point, well put.

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

neither commanders wanted to lose if i remember correctly 1. Montcalm was shot in the back as he was attempting to relocate through the ruins 2. Wolfe was sniped by a guerilla, unsure if it was native american or French militia

[@agin1519]

Big Dan did emphasize that Wolfe was a battlefield commander, so that point comparing the risks he took and asked others to take to the actions of modern leaders and the amount they personally risk in the choices of their leadership is a fair one!

[@davidevans3227]

phew! found part two.. 🙂

[@malcontender6319]

9:46 What town? The burned out husk with every standing structure compromised and easily half the population dead? That town?

[@MrJking065]

Well Damn I had not heard or read about this battle. Although I know more about World War II and the American Civil war. This was so interesting to see a break down of the battle. According to DNA tests I am 58% British. Although I am 100% American. I love this channel showing about so much history of England.

[@Videomorgue]

A warm barrel grows in diameter and loses velocity/range. Might want to take a Science class along with all that History.

[@MrTigroz]

And they couldn't hit the grenadiers because they were so fucking flat and were coming at them sideways

[@bonsaw57]

Thank god America came along and fixed everything. Can’t imagine back before. The world was guideless. If only we had another Reagan

[@xanbex8324]

Tell that to the Vietnamese!

[@dangagne3347]

America caused that war, and 100s more since. Just as war hungry today IMO.

[@stayhungry1503]

just amazing how incompetent the french seem to have been during this entire siege. they deserved to lose.

[@williamforbes6291]

Shooting eyes closed lol

[@minuteman4199]

Try shooting a flintlock with your eyes open. You'll get one round off then be blinded by the burning bits of gunpowder as they blast you in the face,

[@FiveLiver]

The term 'superpower' is entirely anachronistic in the 18thC. The loss of the American colonies was really only 'catastrophic' for the Ancien Regime in France, and led directly to decades of violence in Europe. At the time the West Indies were considered more valuable economically to Britain. The American oligarchs thought they could avoid taxation, but ironically having lost the protection of the Royal Navy on the high seas they merely replaced the modest taxation of Britain with the substantial extortions of Muslim pirates.

[@ThinkBeyondTheBox]

I really appreciate HH, for many of the same reasons as others have pointed out. But having Andre Bourbeau speak about the advantages the Indigenous people had when it comes to surviving on their lands was a poor judgement call. As a historian, you must understand that how academia (especially in the Arts) has historically spoken about Indigenous people is problematic. Interviewing a white person about Indigenous people makes them, and their way of life, seem antiquated, dead, and equivalent to a historical artifact. It continues the trend of 'othering' Indigenous people. While Andre did praise the capacity of Indigenous people to survive, I'm confident you could have found an Indigenous person in Quebec who would have been happy to speak about their history.

[@ronclark9724]

But which tribe would you use? The First Nations who occupy Quebec are Abenaki, Algonquin, Atikamekw, Cree, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Innu, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), Mi'kmaq and Naskapi. The reserve with the largest population belongs to the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke. This list of tribes may provide a clue why the First Nations lost most of their land to the European North Americans...

[@ThinkBeyondTheBox]

@@ronclark9724 I hear your mentality often amongst other settlers. The notion that Indigenous peoples losing their lands is their own fault is problematic for two reasons. First, that is literally victim blaming. Is it right that Ukraine is losing its lands to Russia? Second, the British and French relied on Indigenous peoples and often made treaties with Indigenous peoples to share the land and cooperate with each other. Unfortunately, the British, especially, felt little reason to respect these treaties and did everything they could to destroy the cultures of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Learn some actual history before you speak.

[@donaldmichaellumsden2714]

Quebec wss anuthing but wilferness at that time . It was closer to southern France. That is why they called it New France . It had many towns and villages Up and down the coast DML

[@ronclark9724]

And to think many Arcadians eventually moved to Louisiana. I wonder who Louisiana is named after? /sarcasm

[@calkinsb0713]

Welcome to north America limey!

[@ChristianConservativ]

Did you just do "Redcoat Face" and "Indian Face" all in the same documentary? Wow, the racism is strong with you. 🤣🤣🤣

[@macbrown99]

Incredible that the British "rigorous, scientific approach to warfare" is essentially the perfection of the brilliant tactic of lining men up in a field and taking turns butchering each other with what amounts to a thousand-man shotgun. Stiff upper lip, lads.

[@minuteman4199]

The proof of his assertion is in the results.

[@greatwave1]

It is ironic that hundreds of years later this great city of Quebec is not English it is still...French!

[@bmused55]

It's Canadian And it's not Ironic. As Dan said in this docu, the French language and customs were allowed to continue after the city was captured. Nothing ironic there at all.

[@fergusmallon1337]

Most people tend to think of Canada as an English speaking country. It is bilingual. 1/3rd of the population speaks French and it is a leader among French speaking countries

[@lovehandr]

and while the Americans seceded, Quebec remained part of the British Empire. One of the offenses that led to the American revolution was the Quebec Act, that protected Quebec's language, legal system and religion. This led to the partition of North America into two countries.

[@skippymagrue]

We almost had German as the national language too.

[@mickharrison9004]

Always 8 the French twts 🇬🇧👊✌️

[@scott658]

Be nice if you could do a show about the Battle of Saratoga , where you Brits got you asses handed to you .

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

And Carillon, and monongahela, and william henry, and...

[@ronclark9724]

@@thewindthatshakesbar And my favorite, YORKTOWN...

[@larryburrows7021]

Enjoyed this series but it ignores the sovereignty of indigenous nations and continues the fiction of ownership of land by arrogant European nations.

[@Jin-Ro]

Sovereignty is a human concept. As is Land ownership. Land belongs to the strongest, it's been like that since we lived in caves, and continues to this day. Don't for a second think it's exclusively a European trait. Wherever you're from, the natives were conquered by someone.

[@barongaylordkrinjin9844]

Canada is European construct. It is for Canadian citizens....if you think every square inch of North America belongs to only to the native American race you are being very absurd,

[@lovetoedit]

@@Jin-Ro Correct ! Who ever fights for the land and wins ...it is theirs ! "The right of conquest" ! Losers always say it was theirs and leave out the part where they stole it from someone else many yrs. prior !

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

@@lovetoedit thing is generally speaking they weren't defeated either. They were decieved, lied to, treated as subhumans and discarded. That's not being strong, that's being right bastards.

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

@@Jin-Ro Not a reason to perpetuate the colonial mentality we impose on them to this day.

[@EthanBSide]

You brits had scouts, pickets, and plenty of Native Americans and auxiliaries... get your history right. It wasn't the noble lines that held, they fought hand and foot. Ship and manpower won the day. Stay in jolly England

[@EPICFAILKING1]

Also, France GAVE America its independence. I'm not sure why Dan is appealing to American propaganda by saying they alone beat the British - it's laughable.

[@noodlyappendage6729]

He didn’t.

[@shahansindhi8141]

Judging by the British maps of Quebec, my conclusion would be that the French were defeated because they couldn't speak English language!

[@hauntedmoodylady]

Well dare I say so; George Washington of Virginia was never, ever commissioned an Officer in the British Army. He was not a British officer in the Seven years War. He was an Officer in the Virginia Militia. There is very good evidence that had the British commissioned George Washington in the British military; it is very likely there would not have been an American Revolutionary War. George Washington coveted a commission in the British Army, and resented like hell being denied one. It was just another insult which served to motivate an American Colonist to fight the British, whether it was British taxation, or British occupation, or the many British Intolerable Acts..

[@windypup8845]

You seem to have forgotten that the first settlers were British. It was a British colony so the war of independence was Brits fighting Brits. It's why they speak English and use the old British Imperial system.

[@oldmanwillyboy2786]

The Declaration of Independence was devised and penned, almost exclusively by Scotsmen, and it's Laws are based on Scots Law, not, as this jumped up "historian" says, British Law! Britain had no written constitution(still doesn't)! The American Constitution was deliberately modeled on natural "Scots Law" because it was inherently fairer and less open to abuse, because those Scotsmen were aware and had experienced first hand how unfair, and open to abuse "British Law" was!

[@andreweden9405]

The History Hit "YouChoob" channel?! The river "Sint Lawrence"?!?😃😂

[@twstf8905]

The transitions, between maps and landscapes, is really helpful. You can really get a mental image of everything he's talking about, the battle. 👍

[@mickharrison9004]

When you came unstuck back then ,you really were in big shit those British soldiers very brave indeed thousands of miles from home 🇬🇧

[@SkepticalChris]

31:55 Do you know what country's law, culture and political systems are even MORE British than the Americans? Canada's.

[@barrykierans1473]

If you travel east along the St. Lawrence in wintertime you wonder how any living thing can survive there. No wonder so many British soldiers died.

[@aminbazdeep6417]

Thanks Dan, excellent, as usual. Added to the long list of your great stuff.

[@rpalmer274]

Did they really teach British children about this in school 🇨🇦

[@fergusmallon1337]

This is a fabulous, much needed documentary. Canadian history as presented in schools is dull and boring, filled with acts and such that bring about revolutionary changes with only the rare flashes of excitement but the Plains of Abraham stands out as a major apex in North American history. In Canadian history, prior to the battle, the French were viewed as the good guys fending off fiendish British along the Mohawk valley, encroaching in Hudson's Bay, Frontenac answering Sir William Phipps with the mouths of his canon. Then suddenly the British become the good guys and the French become a mere problem of what to do with them and how do we deal with America. Canada has become one of the great nations of the world in the shadow of the US and I love it. I love the french fact. They have so enriched this country culturally and to our credit, they thrive and make Canada one of the great French language countries of the world. The French did not go away but remain, in a way, undefeated

[@Maya_Ruinz]

I'm baffled this channel doesn't have more subs, the stories are brilliantly presented and told and covers history you never get to hear about in school. Great stuff all around!

[@nicolawebb6025]

Having come back from Quebec City today this does a fantastic job of fleshing out the story and landscape

[@michaelbevan1081]

Part 1 and part2 watched, enjoyed this massively.

[@haraldisdead]

"Quebec was allowed to keep its language and culture." Objection.

[@benjamin112]

@ about 6 mins, you might not leave any tracks using moccasins but you'll almost certainly break you're ankles!! 😉

[@RobertLeroux-b3v]

It's almost November 11th "Remembrance Day"..... How sad it is Canadians do not "Remember" the events of 1775-1776 in Remembrance Day ceremonies. Lost to the annals of "His-Story" are these Veterans. We were a nation then and the Victory in those years affirmed it. I choose to Remember... I am very proud to say my French family was there somewhere in the melee. We nearly went into the American melting pot. Merci famille du Gamache se souvenir, merci d'apres Canada

[@ohsosmooth01]

That aerial shot Quebec Fort looked a lot like Tilbury Fort from the air.

[@LornaBall]

Interesting 🧐😊🧡

[@peterchenier9163]

You left the part out that there was a French traitor who showed the English troops the path up

[@kitbag9033]

Is that really true, or was it a myth or excuse to explain the French speaker's defeat?

[@robertcaldwell2994]

India was considered more important to the empire than the 13 colonies at the time of the revolution. Much of the Americas wealth was yet to be realized while the East India Trading Company was making bank. The French and English were fighting in many theatres after the fall of Quebec. The Red line was very thin.

[@hod2116]

I think the west indies was where the money was at the time and most important to the british

[@gray3553]

How ironic, the man who started a global conflict ended up kicking us out of our American colonies. The whole of North American from east to west would have been part of the Empire. Still Canada stood loyal. Great documentary.

[@ronclark9724]

Yet, at that time just about any British officer would have done the same... France and the British were heading for war anyway, sooner or later...

[@carlosm.2818]

Another great documentary by Dan Snow.

[@wroughtiron7258]

What about mah boi Amherst?

[@sellingtowinselling3876]

Wow didn't have a clue about this cheers dan

[@operator9858]

we need more battles in america...for histories sake. and making docs on them would be cool too lol

[@sandman8993]

Yes I find it strange that all we hear about is the romans and ww1 and 2 but nothing about America. I mean it must be well documented what happened