My ancestor, Jeremiah Osgood, was a Revolutionary War veteran who died in 1855 at age 99. He served in the First Connecticut Regiment and was one of the first settlers of Hamlin PA. He lived long enough to be photographed.
I wonder if Phineas Lester, who is one of my ancestors, may have known your ancestor. He served in Latimer's regiment of militia, and later settled at Wallenpaupack, Pennsylvania, which is near Hamlin, PA.
My ancestor, John Gray (1764-1868), is verified as the last living veteran of the American Revolution, documented by the book "John Gray, Washington's last soldier" written in 1866 and reprinted in 1888 by James McCormick Dalzell, with the reprint containing letters from the Pension Office documenting such. He is buried in Hiramsburg, Ohio in the McElroy Cemetery with materials housed at the Noble County Historical Society in Caldwell, Ohio. I am a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
There is controversy as to whether Daniel Bakeman was the last, and they were never able to conclusively prove that he had served in the war, The other contender was George Fruits, but there is now question about whether he was mixed up with his father and actually died much sooner. This is according to the 2021 President of the SAR.
My great, great, great, great grandfather was born in 1768. He joined the Massachusetts Militia in 1783 at the age of 15. Normally the militia would require recruits to be 16 but his father was a major in that organization and made an exception for him. At the time he was over six feet tall and looked 20. Both participated in at least one battle fighting the British in early 1783. My great, great, great, great grandfather died in Massachusetts 1872 at the age of 104. I have dozens of photos of him taken by his son in law, my great, great great grandfather who was a professional photographer between 1857 and 1872. I have his birth records, marriage records. I have dozens of documents proving his date of birth and date of death and I have his detailed diary which begins in October 1777 with the last entry being on July 4 1871 which he declared was his last entry. I have over 50 letters he wrote home to his mother describing various activities while in the militia including detailed descriptions of the battle he was involved in and speaking of how brave his father was when wounded. The handwriting of the first entry is in the same handwriting as the one in the last entry. He never applied for a pension. Presumably due to being financially well off. His late father had been a judge and business owner. He inherited his fathers business and built it into multiple businesses which were run by his children. Upon his death his six surviving children owned and operated between them dozens of businesses and all provided for him collectively. While a pension was a good indication someone was a vet it was not the only one. I did not know until I watched this video that anyone who died before he did was being claimed to be the last veteran of the revolution. Before I was going to send the above photos to a museum in Massachusetts but now that I know his true place in history learning it just now, I will be sending all the above material to the Smithsonian and then the matter will be settled.
My 5th great-grandfather, Benjamin Miller, just missed being photographed and included in Hillard's book. He is included in the introduction of Mr. Hagist's book. His pension file is a treasure trove. He first enlisted at the age of 14. He was present at West Point when his unit was guarding the chains across the Hudson and witnessed Arnold's escape on the Vulture and Major Andre's hanging. I hold out hope that one day I will discover a photograph of him. He died in Laurens, Otsego County, NY in 1863 at the age of 99 years 10.5 months.
@@VentureHolly “Free” healthcare doesn’t exist. Nothing in this world is free, at least not via a service government provides. Someone always has to pay. Catchy slogan though, you might consider going into marketing.
@@1legomaster Of course somebody has to pay. However, do you agree with a system where a large chunk of the money goes into the pockets of rich shareholders? And where millions have no access to healthcare at all.
@ the last surviving revolutionary war veteran that still received a military pension died in 1868. The ones that lived to the 1860s were teenagers when they signed up.
@@cherylschantz9893 Richard Lord Jones was 10 and a fifer in the Revolutionary War, he died prior to the Civil War but his age shows how young some of them were. It's shocking and disgusting. Boys the same age were also drummer boys in the American Civil War.
It is absolutely amazing that we have photos of these people. My father's side goes back to 1650 in America. I had relatives that fought on the American and British side in the Revolution. I wish I had photos of them!
I traced one branch of my English family to Salem Massachusetts in 1630. They were aristocracy, descended from younger royal children. But my maiden name- I traced back to my great great grandfather who was born in Somerset England in 1826. He came to America in 1846 and became a citizen in 1847. I can find no info on who his parents were. But really it is conceivable I had British ancestors who fought for king George. I have 6 direct great great great great great grandfathers who fought for America in the revolution. ❤
John Quincy Adams lived long enough to have met Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee, whose father was a general in the Revolutionary War, knew all the Virginia dynasty presidents. John Tyler, 10th President born in 1790, has a grandson still alive today.
@@ChrisantusMachuka an early form of photography by Louis Daguerre; like how we used to have film and now we have digital, they used to have daguerreotypes :)
Notice how all of the 8 shown were in the north, and the time of the photos is 1864. I would be confident that there would have been some more veterans in the south at the time, but obviously would not be on the pension roll after 1861 due to their state leaving the union. Would be interesting to hear the modern author’s search for them.
Until I watched this video just now, I was unaware that revolutionary veterans who died before my veteran ancestor were claiming to be the last survivors. My fourth great grandfather, for whom I have ample irrefutable evidence of his status of a being a veteran of the Revolution having enlisted at the age of 15 in 1783 and fought in at least one battle that year, died in 1872 at the age of 104. He kept a diary from age 9 to age 103 making his final entry on July 4 1871. His son in law was a professional photographer who learned that art in Paris and took dozens of photos of his veteran father in law from the 1850's to the last one in 1872 a few weeks before his father in law died. He never applied for a pension because all six of his children owned successful businesses and all contributed financially to his well being. He had two full time live in nurses up to the end as an example. So there is no government pension record for him. But I have so much evidence. For example, a letter he wrote from the battlefield to his mother in 1783 has handwriting that matches the handwriting in his diaries from age 9 to age 103. Actually his handwriting from age 9 is virtually identical to his handwriting from age 103, just as shaky but from ate 15 to age 90 quite good penmanship. His father, a major in the same militia was his commanding officer and I have letters and notes back and forth between those two. I have a letter of commission issued to him in 1812 when the British attached and he was requested to return to duty after a 20 year absence from the militia. He was commissioned a captain and received a field promotion to Major. I have dozens of other documents proving his service and age at death but these are but a few. He was born and died in Massachusetts. I do not claim he was the last surviving veteran of the American Revolution as you point out, the veterans of the south were neglected by history and so I would not be shocked to find some as long lived or longer. I know that there were boys as young as twelve who were in the revolution, perhaps younger and I think it counts even if the boy in question didn't carry a weapon but merely a drum or bugle or flag as often is the case as they were in just as much danger if not more so. I will be leaving in my will all of the material I have that proves my ancestor's status to the Smithsonian. I previously was going to leave it to a museum in Massachusetts but now that I am aware of his place in history I think the Smithsonian is more appropriate. That is, if nobody becomes known to have outlived him.
@ReddoFreddo Missouri never left the Union official, there was people in revolt that tried to force their agenda, but the state government remained loyal. The Governor however did not and tried attacking the federal arsenal at Saint Louis.
My 7th Great Grandfather was part of the revolutionary war, as a scout in the Carolina’s and Kentucky. He died in 1820 in Missouri. You know him as Daniel Boone.
My great-great-great-great-granddad, John Shepherd, fought in the French & Indian War (aka Seven Years' War) and the Revolution. He lived from 1728-1846. Yes, almost 118 years old. But being in Ohio in his latter days, there were no photographers in the area as far I know. We have pictures of his children, but not him.
My ancestor, George Fruits, was once considered the last survivor of the Revolutionary War -- but that's probably incorrect! His grave still says that he lived from 1762 until 1876.
At 1:48 there is a man named John Goodnow listed at 120 years and 2 months, which would make him the oldest male to have ever lived. It's likely that he wasn't actually 120 and that they had no/inaccurate birth records, but if it could be verified it would be cool.
He’s my great-great (insert lots of greats) great grandfather! He died at 102. It’s a typo. He was born in 1762 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which was founded by the Goodnow and Noyes families (among others) in 1638 after sailing to America in a ship called the Confidence.
I read Hilliard's book some years ago as well as some articles of modern day that brought questions to supposed facts. One thing I found strange is the apparent lack of any surviving vets from the Southern states, or even Mid-Atlantic; Adam Link is the only one of the 6 that was from outside New England (from PA). Surely more from those areas were still alive, even just a few, in 1864. It's remarkable even this many managed to survive to 100 in the era before modern medicine and sanitation.
It's pretty rude, I think to dismiss so much of the book. Certainly, books of that time would portray ordinary people using grand language, but it does not mean that just because they used that affectation that the text is not real.
I have records of a great grandfather of mine generations ago serving under the Pennsylvania Militia and his son in the war of 1812 Michael Brouse Senior and JR. And Micheal Brouse Seniors Application of when he applied for military benefits after the Revolutionary War. He has several family members buried in Ohio where he moved after the war. He and several other members are honored with a plaque at the cemetery.Micheal Brouse Senior, lived to be well over 100 years old
My great gam-gam, Mrs. Potatoehead, brought joy to millions despite being literally taken apart countless times. I know she'd be greatful to see these pictures.
My 7x great-grandfather, James Draughon settled in what was then Edgecombe County in North Carolina. He did not enlist in the military, but he did provide supplies to the Continental Army, and supported the Patriot cause. I’m working on my application to join the Sons of the American Revolution.
I'm sure there were others in the Southern States who were alive in 1864. I know my Great Great Grandfather fought in the Revolution and drew a pension from the State of North Carolina and died in the 1840's.
They were traitors though. I had ancestors who were on the second mayflower arrived in 1629 from Leiden. Their grandchildren fought in the revolutionary war. They regretted this - fighting with the southerners. Because they were Quakers at that point and England had abolished slavery.. but the south hadn’t. So many in Massachusetts concluded that the north fought the wrong people in the revolution. They despised the south and pulled no punches in quashing their rebellion and doing what they could to wipe away their memory. All of this is in the records of Bradford Alden and Banks in Massachusetts archives in duxbury ma and Plymouth town records 😊
@@_kreetch9231Well, that is certainly a take. I appreciate your ancestors’ honesty, though. Goes to show that the war was never about preserving the Union as a partnership between equals, but instead was-and was conducted as-a war of conquest and domination.
I think you’re probably right. I recall seeing photographs from 1861 of young men in gray taken with their grandfathers who had put on their uniforms from the Revolution for the photograph
No one talked about Haym Solomon who single-handedly financed the American revolution only to be unpaid by Congress and dying alone and penniless. In the same way that revolutionary war soldiers went unpaid by Congress.
Oh my God there’s so much more to them. Thanks for telling me that there’s more to them the whole reason to watch the video to see more about the people. Please send me a link to the full doc
My ancestor, Captain Elkenah Sears, outfitted and captained a ship as a privateer when the American Revolutionary War broke out. He raided British shipping in imitation of John Paul Jones, but much less successfully. His ship was captured by a British warship and, fearing summary execution, he and a companion mangage to escape to shore. He made his way back home and lived to the age of 82. He was in his 40s at the time of the Revolution, however, so he passed away in 1816, well before photography was available.
8:25 *DON N HAGIST:* “Two that I've been able to determine did, in fact, prove their service and received Revolutionary War pensions after 1864.” Well, receiving one’s pension in one’s 100s, while better than nothing, probably did not amount to a whole lot. The question is whether they received all the back payments they were entitled to _before_ they began receiving their pension.
It doesn't sound like it, based on a couple of web searches. And apparently there were already much earlier pension acts that were supposed to give Revolutionary War veterans some benefits, but records aren't always clear on how well those were doled out. (Someone correct me if that's wrong.)
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the wife and widow of Alexander Hamilton, lived to be 97 dying in 1854 seven years before the first shots were fired in the American Civil War. A granddaughter of the Hamiltons was married to Union General Henry Halleck.
Very interesting. My Dad served 4.5 years in the US Navy as an Electrician’s mate when he volunteered. He survived the war snd lived to his 90s. He had clear memories of his duties and service to his death. Everyone’s individual experiences and memories are maintained in different ways.
I’m sorry but people more than a hundred years later deciding what someone said or did like this and like they know better than the person who was literally there is insufferable. How do you know that guy wasn’t at Saratoga? This is like when people say, “the conquistadors were racist and biased and exaggerated how violent the Aztecs were!” And then we found a mountain of skulls of men women and children in 2015 under Mexico City which perfectly matched the description of the conquistadors. Sometimes the eye witnesses are telling the truth. I’ve talked to a 104 year old wwii veteran and he was clear about where he served, where he fought, and clearly presented it in the context of the rest of the war. It’s not unusual for veterans to be clear about their service, and it’s not like they suddenly think they were at d day just because they’re old now.
Very cool video. My many back Great Grandfather was Henry vanderslice, wagon master under George Washington at valley forge. He wrote a journal of his experience it was awesome to read.
There is a truckstop near me in Fultonville, NY. They have a photo of a revolutionary war veteran named Jacob Veeder I think. He was 100 when he was photographed.
you got a similar distortion of individual histories with the last of the wwII vets. With only a handful of them remaining, they all seem to have landed on DDay. No one was ever a cook or drove a supply truck.
@@NDB469 THIS. The "journalists" and historians, do not want the ones they consider humdrum... Sadly, a great deal of history is lost that way. My bio dad was a cook on a hardware ship in the Pacific and had battle stars, USS Castor. My adopted dad was in the chemical corps.
@@nunyabiznez6381 Where did you get that idea? There were around 11 million members in the armed forces during WW II. On D-D less than 100,000 landed on the first day.
Would it be possible to spend less camera time on these people’s faces and more on the fascinating newsclippings and photographs? Lots of love, thank you!
My frustration is people do not want to realize our history. Understanding our victories and failures is imperative to our fantastic finishes. The lack of understanding this is our failures.
The fact that they managed to live as long as they did, in that time is truly miraculous. The fact that we are still sharing their stories today gives me hope that humanity does still exist.
Well, they’re not overweight so that means they probably didn’t eat that much so they didn’t buy dive bacterial disease diseases, which is nothing more than what you’re dying by remember, cancer is nothing more than simple bacteria that you’re facilitating every day by going to the grocery store the hospitals are in cahoots withyou’re just making someone else a lot of money
Thats only part true, the high mortally rate was primarily because of the extremely high infant death rate , then starting in 1861 the civil war contributed also......if you lived past your youth and were not in a war you would be surprised how long people lived,,,,,
Fascinating to see these men. I can't imagine their memories being able to tell their full stories, but it's great that we have photographic evidence of them nonetheless.
They might not of been in the biggest battles, but they we in the military a very dangerous position to be in. Their heros to me. We all owe them respect
I think this is a terrific story, and while I am glad to have better knowledge of their true lives, it is the photos that are important to the country. I wonder how much influence the reminder of how near that long past war was. And a reminder that we needed unity to win as a nation. Perhaps we should bring to our attention those few remaining from WWII, to remind people who we should be fighting against.
Real easy to preach unity when people in both political factions literally wish to undermine the American way of life. I’m sorry, but these other wars have been distractions while we rotted away on the inside.
@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky The American Revolution and WWII were distractions? Hyperbole much? And when you say "American way of life," you are either foolish or ignorant. The only constant in the American way of life is change. It was the American way of life to enslave people, until the People said stop. It was the American way to wage genocide on this land's native population, though I doubt many would except that as okay today. And we haven't even started on suffrage.
I wonder how many photos of in the Library of Congress have gone missing or were destroyed because they didn’t agree with someone’s current view of history?
I can imagine it was disheartening for these men to have fought alongside their countrymen for independence only to see their descendants fight among each other some 80 years later.
I know for a fact that today, those soldiers would be spinning in their graves if they knew what was going on now. How the mighty have bloody fallen...
Possibly but in the 1800's there were a lot of people claiming to be much older than they were. The most frequent reasons were to avoid conscription and to facilitate immigration. When my great grandmother came here in 1902 she claimed to be 18 years of age but was really only 16. I had an ancestor who wanted to enlist in the army but was only 14. He was tall for his age so he was able to fake his way in claiming to be 18. Also, some sons of Revolutionary War vets continued to collect their father's pension long after their father died and so there are some pension records indicating false ages for men long deceased. Sometimes men who were just under the cut off age for being drafted would lie and say they were older to avoid being drafted. I found such a man who in 1863 was subject to draft due to being 32 years old but he claimed to be 46 to avoid the draft. I guess he looked old for his age because it worked. Anyone over 45 was exempt from the draft in the Civil War. So he was a full 14 years younger than he claimed. While 106 years old is quite old, it is at least believable. 120 is not but if such a lie had been told it would explain the age given.
Thank you! ~ There are several other real photos of ARW veterans. Great history and historical events. ~ Stay Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All ~ GOD Bless and Preserve the USA!
There’s a tendency to look at individuals who were on the winning side of one war and automatically associate them with the winning side of another, especially if you’ve been taught to believe that it was simply good guys versus bad guys. Both wars were messy affairs, with saints and monsters on each side. The Civil War was not simply about slavery-and-tear-apart-the-nation versus freedom-and-unity. The Revolutionary War was not primarily about keeping a new nation together, but about the AMOUNT of unity needed to successfully BREAK OFF from the British king… kind of similar to how the South wanted to break off from the Union. But again, not the EXACT same. The rights & wrongs were all over the place.
My father's maternal 3X great great grandfather: Daniel Martin, Jr. Birthdate: February 04, 1748 Birthplace: Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey Death: October 03, 1850 (102) Preston County, Virginia, United States Immediate Family: Son of Daniel Martin and Keziah Martin Husband of Eve Martin; SARAH Martin and Elizabeth Martin Father of Abigail Martin; Isaac Martin; Mary Sypolt; Jacob B Martin; John Martin and 2 others Brother of James Martin; Edmund Martin and Sarah Martin Occupation: private then corporal during Revolution, 1779-80.
Our farm in Ohio had the graves of the Amassa Flaherty Family. Amassa was born in 1757 and walked from Maryland to the Norhtwest Territory (Ohio statehood was 1802), and joined the "Regulars" of the Continental Army. He fought at Yorktown. His official discharge paper is signed by one, "Geo. Washington, General of the Army" and resides at the Loudonville, Ohio Library. Pension? From what I gather, the US Congress were skinflints about a pension--they required a personal appearance at each state capitol to swear an affidavit stating they were a Veteran. Amassa walked the 82 miles to Columbus, Ohio, signed the papers, and eventually received his $3/month pension ($75 in 2025 dollars) before he passed on in 1841. The pension was listed in his Probate estate. GOD BLESS ALL VETERANS!
My 4th Great-Grandfather, George Roberts of North Carolina, was part of the last small number, dying on January 1, 1864 at the age of 105. His name was published in newspapers across the country in 1860, along with 206 others, on a list of the last-surviving Revolutionary War veterans. Would love to know which number he made it to (15th-last, 20th-last, whatever number).
These were the last remaining colonial Britons of the United States. It still amazes me how not too long ago US Americans were also subject to the authority of the British Crown and lived by the laws passed by a Parliament meeting over 4000km away in good old London. Considering how different the two countries are today, if it were not for their common usage of English, one would think they were total strangers to one another.
It blows my mind that the average of those veterans lifespans after the war was over 100 years old.....and we get lucky if we get to 80 years old now..
My 5th great-grandfather Alexander Hughes fought in the Revolutionary War, and he only lived to 81 years and 7 months. It's been very hard to find out anything about him though. He left a will, and he had some land, but otherwise there doesn't seem to be a record of him. I wish there had been even a sketch of him, and his wife. I don't think people prioritized that at the time.
Fascinating stuff. I often wonder if the native population of the continent would have been better off if the revolution had failed. No Louisiana Purchase? No Lewis and Clark? No gold rush? No "manifest destiny"? Perhaps the North American continent would have been divided up like Africa into colonial nations, to later revolt into weird little multiplicities.
The working class would have a far better lifestyle today if that had happened. You would even have a proper democracy with checks and balances. You would have better quality manufacturing and decent food and medical standards
These Revolutionary soldiers were ethnic English and I am proud to see my ethnic kin who fought for their English rights. It was a horrible English Civil War in North America.
@Patrick3183 Yes, almost all were British, but the vast majority were English. There weren't many Irish there because Catholicism was practically illegal
@davidtrindle6473 Good God. Didn't you know the Scottish are British? They are not mutually exclusive. British = English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish (though generally Protestant Irish). Every single founding father was ethnic English.
We didn't have a revolution, the French did. The American colonists fought for independence. The British government said that the American colonists had all the rights and obligations befitting their status as full citizens of the realm. But they just seemed to focus on the obligations. The American colonists were fighting for the status quo. Had the British government been competent we would be one large (un) happy Canada now.
My ancestor, Jeremiah Osgood, was a Revolutionary War veteran who died in 1855 at age 99. He served in the First Connecticut Regiment and was one of the first settlers of Hamlin PA. He lived long enough to be photographed.
So what 😅
I wonder if Phineas Lester, who is one of my ancestors, may have known your ancestor. He served in Latimer's regiment of militia, and later settled at Wallenpaupack, Pennsylvania, which is near Hamlin, PA.
@evangravitz4029 Quite possibly.
Wow amazing 99 that's crazy for back then..
@@davey3616If you don’t appreciate history why are you watching this video?
I would have asked their perspective on the Civil War. Here they are men who fought to create this country only to see it being torn apart.
I wonder if they saw it coming in 1770s.🤔
I recall reading these interviews years ago and I believe everyone who was asked supported the Union.
The revolutionaries were seceding from Britain just like the confederate were seceding from the usa
@@chadparsons50I mean, they knew that they kicked the can (slavery) down the road. It was just a matter of time
@@chadparsons50Jefferson and Adams saw it coming. I imagine a lot of people did.
My ancestor, John Gray (1764-1868), is verified as the last living veteran of the American Revolution, documented by the book "John Gray, Washington's last soldier" written in 1866 and reprinted in 1888 by James McCormick Dalzell, with the reprint containing letters from the Pension Office documenting such. He is buried in Hiramsburg, Ohio in the McElroy Cemetery with materials housed at the Noble County Historical Society in Caldwell, Ohio. I am a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
What an exciting heritage! Thank you for sharing that.
He was so young during the American revolution!!
In the video they say that the actual last veteran (Daniel Bakeman) died in 1869, the last of the pensioned soldiers of the Revolution.
There is controversy as to whether Daniel Bakeman was the last, and they were never able to conclusively prove that he had served in the war, The other contender was George Fruits, but there is now question about whether he was mixed up with his father and actually died much sooner. This is according to the 2021 President of the SAR.
@@alanhall6912 But Bakeman was getting a Revolutionary War pension when he died in 1869, right?
My ancestor, William Landrine Eggers, was a Revolutionary War pensioner. Born 1747 and passed 1837. What a life. This was very interesting to watch.
Was he from New England?
@dazai_.992 yes, actually. Or there abouts. We know he first joined the New Jersey militia.
My great, great, great, great grandfather was born in 1768. He joined the Massachusetts Militia in 1783 at the age of 15. Normally the militia would require recruits to be 16 but his father was a major in that organization and made an exception for him. At the time he was over six feet tall and looked 20. Both participated in at least one battle fighting the British in early 1783. My great, great, great, great grandfather died in Massachusetts 1872 at the age of 104. I have dozens of photos of him taken by his son in law, my great, great great grandfather who was a professional photographer between 1857 and 1872. I have his birth records, marriage records. I have dozens of documents proving his date of birth and date of death and I have his detailed diary which begins in October 1777 with the last entry being on July 4 1871 which he declared was his last entry. I have over 50 letters he wrote home to his mother describing various activities while in the militia including detailed descriptions of the battle he was involved in and speaking of how brave his father was when wounded. The handwriting of the first entry is in the same handwriting as the one in the last entry. He never applied for a pension. Presumably due to being financially well off. His late father had been a judge and business owner. He inherited his fathers business and built it into multiple businesses which were run by his children. Upon his death his six surviving children owned and operated between them dozens of businesses and all provided for him collectively. While a pension was a good indication someone was a vet it was not the only one. I did not know until I watched this video that anyone who died before he did was being claimed to be the last veteran of the revolution. Before I was going to send the above photos to a museum in Massachusetts but now that I know his true place in history learning it just now, I will be sending all the above material to the Smithsonian and then the matter will be settled.
Who cares
@ Keep your misery to yourself.
How blessed you and your family are to have such a documented history! Thank you for sharing!!
What was his name?
Fascinating, I hope you are successful in sending this information to the Smithsonian
A paternal ancestor was an Able Seaman in War Of 1812, in 1814 at age 15. In 1861, he was still in the US Union Navy.
O yeah 😅
That’s what you call “Old Navy”.
Was that the war where the US tried and failed to invade little old Canada?
They witnessed a lot. They changed a lot. Brilliant
My Oldest Great Grandpa was born in 1895. He served in World War One. Henry Otto Grill Private First Class United States Army 1895-1979.
@ Brilliant. Where did he fight ?
@brickistic8188 I am not sure. I was born in 1997. I have been trying to find some records of his service and all I can find is his enlistment record.
My 5th great-grandfather, Benjamin Miller, just missed being photographed and included in Hillard's book. He is included in the introduction of Mr. Hagist's book. His pension file is a treasure trove. He first enlisted at the age of 14. He was present at West Point when his unit was guarding the chains across the Hudson and witnessed Arnold's escape on the Vulture and Major Andre's hanging. I hold out hope that one day I will discover a photograph of him. He died in Laurens, Otsego County, NY in 1863 at the age of 99 years 10.5 months.
That's amazing.
God Bless these men. We stand here as Americans because of their sacrifices
Yeah god forbid you might be Canadian with all that pesky free healthcare and social safety nets 😂
@@VentureHolly “Free” healthcare doesn’t exist. Nothing in this world is free, at least not via a service government provides. Someone always has to pay. Catchy slogan though, you might consider going into marketing.
God?
@@1legomaster Of course somebody has to pay. However, do you agree with a system where a large chunk of the money goes into the pockets of rich shareholders? And where millions have no access to healthcare at all.
@@VentureHolly I would rather eat an oak bed frame than be Canadian
Many of these men lived during the civil war. Imagine seeing the country you fought to create almost tear itself apart over slavery.
We're watching it being torn apart by MAGAts.
I don’t see how they could have served in the Revolutionary War and still be alive in 1865, they would have to be babies.
@ the last surviving revolutionary war veteran that still received a military pension died in 1868. The ones that lived to the 1860s were teenagers when they signed up.
@@cherylschantz9893 Richard Lord Jones was 10 and a fifer in the Revolutionary War, he died prior to the Civil War but his age shows how young some of them were. It's shocking and disgusting. Boys the same age were also drummer boys in the American Civil War.
My thoughts exactly. How heartbreaking. Makes me wonder how the remaining WWII veterans feel about the current state of affairs in the world.
It is absolutely amazing that we have photos of these people. My father's side goes back to 1650 in America. I had relatives that fought on the American and British side in the Revolution. I wish I had photos of them!
I traced one branch of my English family to Salem Massachusetts in 1630. They were aristocracy, descended from younger royal children. But my maiden name- I traced back to my great great grandfather who was born in Somerset England in 1826. He came to America in 1846 and became a citizen in 1847. I can find no info on who his parents were. But really it is conceivable I had British ancestors who fought for king George. I have 6 direct great great great great great grandfathers who fought for America in the revolution. ❤
Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, lived long enough to have a daguerretype made.
John Quincy Adams lived long enough to have met Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee, whose father was a general in the Revolutionary War, knew all the Virginia dynasty presidents. John Tyler, 10th President born in 1790, has a grandson still alive today.
John Quincy Adams did too.
What's a daguerreotype??
A very very early method of photo making @@ChrisantusMachuka
@@ChrisantusMachuka an early form of photography by Louis Daguerre; like how we used to have film and now we have digital, they used to have daguerreotypes :)
Notice how all of the 8 shown were in the north, and the time of the photos is 1864. I would be confident that there would have been some more veterans in the south at the time, but obviously would not be on the pension roll after 1861 due to their state leaving the union. Would be interesting to hear the modern author’s search for them.
The publishing did mention a veteran in Missouri, but they didn't know if he was still alive.
Until I watched this video just now, I was unaware that revolutionary veterans who died before my veteran ancestor were claiming to be the last survivors. My fourth great grandfather, for whom I have ample irrefutable evidence of his status of a being a veteran of the Revolution having enlisted at the age of 15 in 1783 and fought in at least one battle that year, died in 1872 at the age of 104. He kept a diary from age 9 to age 103 making his final entry on July 4 1871. His son in law was a professional photographer who learned that art in Paris and took dozens of photos of his veteran father in law from the 1850's to the last one in 1872 a few weeks before his father in law died. He never applied for a pension because all six of his children owned successful businesses and all contributed financially to his well being. He had two full time live in nurses up to the end as an example. So there is no government pension record for him. But I have so much evidence. For example, a letter he wrote from the battlefield to his mother in 1783 has handwriting that matches the handwriting in his diaries from age 9 to age 103. Actually his handwriting from age 9 is virtually identical to his handwriting from age 103, just as shaky but from ate 15 to age 90 quite good penmanship. His father, a major in the same militia was his commanding officer and I have letters and notes back and forth between those two. I have a letter of commission issued to him in 1812 when the British attached and he was requested to return to duty after a 20 year absence from the militia. He was commissioned a captain and received a field promotion to Major. I have dozens of other documents proving his service and age at death but these are but a few. He was born and died in Massachusetts. I do not claim he was the last surviving veteran of the American Revolution as you point out, the veterans of the south were neglected by history and so I would not be shocked to find some as long lived or longer. I know that there were boys as young as twelve who were in the revolution, perhaps younger and I think it counts even if the boy in question didn't carry a weapon but merely a drum or bugle or flag as often is the case as they were in just as much danger if not more so. I will be leaving in my will all of the material I have that proves my ancestor's status to the Smithsonian. I previously was going to leave it to a museum in Massachusetts but now that I am aware of his place in history I think the Smithsonian is more appropriate. That is, if nobody becomes known to have outlived him.
@ReddoFreddo Missouri never left the Union official, there was people in revolt that tried to force their agenda, but the state government remained loyal. The Governor however did not and tried attacking the federal arsenal at Saint Louis.
one vet was from Virginia
@@jake28061 Over 109,000 men enlisted and fought for the Union and at least 30,000 men fought for the Confederacy.
It's a poignant twist that these pictures were taken during the civil war.
My 7th Great Grandfather was part of the revolutionary war, as a scout in the Carolina’s and Kentucky. He died in 1820 in Missouri. You know him as Daniel Boone.
Badass
My great-great-great-great-granddad, John Shepherd, fought in the French & Indian War (aka Seven Years' War) and the Revolution. He lived from 1728-1846. Yes, almost 118 years old. But being in Ohio in his latter days, there were no photographers in the area as far I know. We have pictures of his children, but not him.
My ancestor, George Fruits, was once considered the last survivor of the Revolutionary War -- but that's probably incorrect! His grave still says that he lived from 1762 until 1876.
If he was 14yo at the beginning of the American Revolution, then he was old enough to recruit at least as a drummer boy.
I have a ancestor Johann Reinhardt a German immigrant who was a American Revolutionary veteran who was born in 1742 and died in 1848 aged 106
At 1:48 there is a man named John Goodnow listed at 120 years and 2 months, which would make him the oldest male to have ever lived.
It's likely that he wasn't actually 120 and that they had no/inaccurate birth records, but if it could be verified it would be cool.
I saw that too!
Great idea .
I found him on Findagrave and it lists him as being born in 1762, so it was an error in the newspaper
He’s my great-great (insert lots of greats) great grandfather! He died at 102. It’s a typo. He was born in 1762 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which was founded by the Goodnow and Noyes families (among others) in 1638 after sailing to America in a ship called the Confidence.
@gabbleratchet1890 That's so cool.
Not "likely", just certain.
Just imagine, all those guys fought in a brutal, bloody conflict, so that guy can wear a green scarf and those glasses.
Exactly what I thought
and white nail polish. Just realized by the end of the video
Disgusting
Thank you for this vid. Something I ha never heard of before.
They would want to die all over again if they could see what's happening to the country now. 💀
Still fighting the same issues. Everyday we fight anew, to support the great experiment.
@@cynthiarowley719We are fighting very different issues today.
@@cynthiarowley719Failed experiment.
But they will see hope and shine a light at our next President come Jan 20th though
@@robocock475 😂😂😂 The Idiot President.
I read Hilliard's book some years ago as well as some articles of modern day that brought questions to supposed facts. One thing I found strange is the apparent lack of any surviving vets from the Southern states, or even Mid-Atlantic; Adam Link is the only one of the 6 that was from outside New England (from PA). Surely more from those areas were still alive, even just a few, in 1864.
It's remarkable even this many managed to survive to 100 in the era before modern medicine and sanitation.
I had a professor in college who had in his office a big collection of Union general carte de visites in a frame.
The guy in the blue shirt is trying to diminish these men,these elderly white men.
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They aren’t subdivided by their sexual preferences, ethnicity, birth year category or gender identity… that’s the problem
@@el_alemanI agree.
The guy in the blue shirt does a lot of speculating. How does he know that some of the veterans felt differently than what was written about them?
It's pretty rude, I think to dismiss so much of the book. Certainly, books of that time would portray ordinary people using grand language, but it does not mean that just because they used that affectation that the text is not real.
I thought the same thing! The smugness and snobbery he exudes disgusted me throughout the entire video.
The bald guy is mentally ill.
William Hutchins is my direct ancestor.
We still live in a time where our grandparents meet people who interacted with individuals that fought against a king born in 1732
I have records of a great grandfather of mine generations ago serving under the Pennsylvania Militia and his son in the war of 1812 Michael Brouse Senior and JR. And Micheal Brouse Seniors Application of when he applied for military benefits after the Revolutionary War. He has several family members buried in Ohio where he moved after the war. He and several other members are honored with a plaque at the cemetery.Micheal Brouse Senior, lived to be well over 100 years old
My great gam-gam, Mrs. Potatoehead, brought joy to millions despite being literally taken apart countless times. I know she'd be greatful to see these pictures.
My 7x great-grandfather, James Draughon settled in what was then Edgecombe County in North Carolina. He did not enlist in the military, but he did provide supplies to the Continental Army, and supported the Patriot cause. I’m working on my application to join the Sons of the American Revolution.
I'm sure there were others in the Southern States who were alive in 1864. I know my Great Great Grandfather fought in the Revolution and drew a pension from the State of North Carolina and died in the 1840's.
They were traitors though. I had ancestors who were on the second mayflower arrived in 1629 from Leiden. Their grandchildren fought in the revolutionary war. They regretted this - fighting with the southerners. Because they were Quakers at that point and England had abolished slavery.. but the south hadn’t. So many in Massachusetts concluded that the north fought the wrong people in the revolution. They despised the south and pulled no punches in quashing their rebellion and doing what they could to wipe away their memory. All of this is in the records of Bradford Alden and Banks in Massachusetts archives in duxbury ma and Plymouth town records 😊
@@_kreetch9231Well, that is certainly a take. I appreciate your ancestors’ honesty, though. Goes to show that the war was never about preserving the Union as a partnership between equals, but instead was-and was conducted as-a war of conquest and domination.
I think you’re probably right. I recall seeing photographs from 1861 of young men in gray taken with their grandfathers who had put on their uniforms from the Revolution for the photograph
lol @ the dude with the scarf
Flaming…the men they are discussing, would be outraged, as I am.
@@timnanFrancis The men they are discussing are fascinating and I have heard of some of them previously.
I wonder if President Lincoln would have seen this book? Probably! 📚
No one talked about Haym Solomon who single-handedly financed the American revolution only to be unpaid by Congress and dying alone and penniless. In the same way that revolutionary war soldiers went unpaid by Congress.
Oh my God there’s so much more to them. Thanks for telling me that there’s more to them the whole reason to watch the video to see more about the people. Please send me a link to the full doc
My ancestor, Captain Elkenah Sears, outfitted and captained a ship as a privateer when the American Revolutionary War broke out. He raided British shipping in imitation of John Paul Jones, but much less successfully. His ship was captured by a British warship and, fearing summary execution, he and a companion mangage to escape to shore. He made his way back home and lived to the age of 82. He was in his 40s at the time of the Revolution, however, so he passed away in 1816, well before photography was available.
8:25 *DON N HAGIST:* “Two that I've been able to determine did, in fact, prove their service and received Revolutionary War pensions after 1864.”
Well, receiving one’s pension in one’s 100s, while better than nothing, probably did not amount to a whole lot. The question is whether they received all the back payments they were entitled to _before_ they began receiving their pension.
It doesn't sound like it, based on a couple of web searches. And apparently there were already much earlier pension acts that were supposed to give Revolutionary War veterans some benefits, but records aren't always clear on how well those were doled out. (Someone correct me if that's wrong.)
@DashingPartyCrasher Too bad, if that's the case. It didn't even occur to me to try to check-thanks for doing so.
Fold3 has lots of pension documents and some show the payment history.
This was great! I really appreciated Mr. Hagist’s efforts to balance diplomacy and accuracy. Bless him!
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the wife and widow of Alexander Hamilton, lived to be 97 dying in 1854 seven years before the first shots were fired in the American Civil War. A granddaughter of the Hamiltons was married to Union General Henry Halleck.
Very interesting. My Dad served 4.5 years in the US Navy as an Electrician’s mate when he volunteered. He survived the war snd lived to his 90s. He had clear memories of his duties and service to his death. Everyone’s individual experiences and memories are maintained in different ways.
I’m sorry but people more than a hundred years later deciding what someone said or did like this and like they know better than the person who was literally there is insufferable. How do you know that guy wasn’t at Saratoga? This is like when people say, “the conquistadors were racist and biased and exaggerated how violent the Aztecs were!” And then we found a mountain of skulls of men women and children in 2015 under Mexico City which perfectly matched the description of the conquistadors. Sometimes the eye witnesses are telling the truth.
I’ve talked to a 104 year old wwii veteran and he was clear about where he served, where he fought, and clearly presented it in the context of the rest of the war. It’s not unusual for veterans to be clear about their service, and it’s not like they suddenly think they were at d day just because they’re old now.
Very cool video. My many back Great Grandfather was Henry vanderslice, wagon master under George Washington at valley forge. He wrote a journal of his experience it was awesome to read.
What is that guy wearing? .....
A scarf? A turtleneck?
Who cares?
Probably clothes and accessories like most humans
Why the dotted ellipsis trailing off after the question mark?
Who?
There is a truckstop near me in Fultonville, NY. They have a photo of a revolutionary war veteran named Jacob Veeder I think. He was 100 when he was photographed.
you got a similar distortion of individual histories with the last of the wwII vets. With only a handful of them remaining, they all seem to have landed on DDay. No one was ever a cook or drove a supply truck.
Or no one is interviewing them? You should read the relatively recent books, The Rifle, and The Rifle 2 by Andrew Biggio. Interesting take on it all.
To be fair, a very large percentage of WWII vets did land on D-Day.
@@NDB469 THIS. The "journalists" and historians, do not want the ones they consider humdrum... Sadly, a great deal of history is lost that way. My bio dad was a cook on a hardware ship in the Pacific and had battle stars, USS Castor. My adopted dad was in the chemical corps.
@@nunyabiznez6381 Where did you get that idea? There were around 11 million members in the armed forces during WW II. On D-D less than 100,000 landed on the first day.
Would it be possible to spend less camera time on these people’s faces and more on the fascinating newsclippings and photographs?
Lots of love, thank you!
Why?
Those men fought so that that guy who works at the Library of Congress could wear a scarf, green glasses, and a collar
My frustration is people do not want to realize our history. Understanding our victories and failures is imperative to our fantastic finishes. The lack of understanding this is our failures.
The fact that they managed to live as long as they did, in that time is truly miraculous. The fact that we are still sharing their stories today gives me hope that humanity does still exist.
Well, they’re not overweight so that means they probably didn’t eat that much so they didn’t buy dive bacterial disease diseases, which is nothing more than what you’re dying by remember, cancer is nothing more than simple bacteria that you’re facilitating every day by going to the grocery store the hospitals are in cahoots withyou’re just making someone else a lot of money
The weird dude wearing that green towel around his body. LOL
An odd bald man that jerks his heading up and down like a Magic Drinking Bird…but I love his white finger nail polish.
Strange and distracting.
Yeah either put some effort into the transition, or forget it.....
@@jaycristoval6155 😆
The scarf is a dead giveaway
Exactly what saw. Baldy hasn’t soldiered a day in his life. Such pretty nails! Anything the bbc touches gets a pink hue.
Amazing some people at that time were still living past 100 years old, especially since most didn't live past 50.
Thats only part true, the high mortally rate was primarily because of the extremely high infant death rate , then starting in 1861 the civil war contributed also......if you lived past your youth and were not in a war you would be surprised how long people lived,,,,,
@@ericsimpson1176I’ve never had any ancestor make it past 93 (only one) including a few who served in the Revolutionary War.
I was born in the late 2000s, this astonished me!
Fascinating to see these men. I can't imagine their memories being able to tell their full stories, but it's great that we have photographic evidence of them nonetheless.
They might not of been in the biggest battles, but they we in the military a very dangerous position to be in. Their heros to me. We all owe them respect
I think this is a terrific story, and while I am glad to have better knowledge of their true lives, it is the photos that are important to the country. I wonder how much influence the reminder of how near that long past war was. And a reminder that we needed unity to win as a nation.
Perhaps we should bring to our attention those few remaining from WWII, to remind people who we should be fighting against.
Real easy to preach unity when people in both political factions literally wish to undermine the American way of life. I’m sorry, but these other wars have been distractions while we rotted away on the inside.
@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky The American Revolution and WWII were distractions? Hyperbole much?
And when you say "American way of life," you are either foolish or ignorant. The only constant in the American way of life is change.
It was the American way of life to enslave people, until the People said stop.
It was the American way to wage genocide on this land's native population, though I doubt many would except that as okay today.
And we haven't even started on suffrage.
What's up with that dude in the scarf? He's like a nervous bobblehead, nodding at every syllable. So distracting.
Glitter fella
He looks like a clown and is wildly annoying nearly ruins the video
DEI
I wonder how many photos of in the Library of Congress have gone missing or were destroyed because they didn’t agree with someone’s current view of history?
3:09 roller skates!
Didn't expect that so I checked out Wiki. Turns out they were introduced on a stage at London in 1743.
Somehow I doubt John Goodnow was 120 (as shown in the newspaper)
Exactly.
Fascinating!!
My mom is a member of the DAR and she has done research on veterans of the Revolution and how they got their pensions.
I can imagine it was disheartening for these men to have fought alongside their countrymen for independence only to see their descendants fight among each other some 80 years later.
My ancestor signed the Declaration of Independence. And look at how all the United States and the best it imperfecty stood for has been trashed.
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You’re beating around the bush. Not one can know what you’re talking about.
@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky the USA has become an oligarchy where the huddled masses sleep on the streets.
I know for a fact that today, those soldiers would be spinning in their graves if they knew what was going on now. How the mighty have bloody fallen...
I wonder what these men would have thought of the weirdo with the glasses.
The paper listed one man as 120 years old!? Typo?
Possibly but in the 1800's there were a lot of people claiming to be much older than they were. The most frequent reasons were to avoid conscription and to facilitate immigration. When my great grandmother came here in 1902 she claimed to be 18 years of age but was really only 16. I had an ancestor who wanted to enlist in the army but was only 14. He was tall for his age so he was able to fake his way in claiming to be 18. Also, some sons of Revolutionary War vets continued to collect their father's pension long after their father died and so there are some pension records indicating false ages for men long deceased. Sometimes men who were just under the cut off age for being drafted would lie and say they were older to avoid being drafted. I found such a man who in 1863 was subject to draft due to being 32 years old but he claimed to be 46 to avoid the draft. I guess he looked old for his age because it worked. Anyone over 45 was exempt from the draft in the Civil War. So he was a full 14 years younger than he claimed. While 106 years old is quite old, it is at least believable. 120 is not but if such a lie had been told it would explain the age given.
How did all these folks live so long with no antibiotics and cancer drugs? Answer is organic food and lifestyle.
I am related to Lamuel Cook on my mother's side of the family.
1:49 Wait, one line in the newspaper states that a man named “John Goodnow” was 120 years old. That can’t be correct.
Thank you! ~ There are several other real photos of ARW veterans. Great history and historical events. ~ Stay Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All ~ GOD Bless and Preserve the USA!
The beginning and historical background of the images were very good…sadly, the rest of the video is terrible. Thanks for sharing the photos.
very interesting
There’s a tendency to look at individuals who were on the winning side of one war and automatically associate them with the winning side of another, especially if you’ve been taught to believe that it was simply good guys versus bad guys. Both wars were messy affairs, with saints and monsters on each side. The Civil War was not simply about slavery-and-tear-apart-the-nation versus freedom-and-unity. The Revolutionary War was not primarily about keeping a new nation together, but about the AMOUNT of unity needed to successfully BREAK OFF from the British king… kind of similar to how the South wanted to break off from the Union. But again, not the EXACT same. The rights & wrongs were all over the place.
My father's maternal 3X great great grandfather: Daniel Martin, Jr.
Birthdate: February 04, 1748
Birthplace: Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Death: October 03, 1850 (102)
Preston County, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Daniel Martin and Keziah Martin
Husband of Eve Martin; SARAH Martin and Elizabeth Martin
Father of Abigail Martin; Isaac Martin; Mary Sypolt; Jacob B Martin; John Martin and 2 others
Brother of James Martin; Edmund Martin and Sarah Martin
Occupation: private then corporal during Revolution, 1779-80.
Our farm in Ohio had the graves of the Amassa Flaherty Family. Amassa was born in 1757 and walked from Maryland to the Norhtwest Territory (Ohio statehood was 1802), and joined the "Regulars" of the Continental Army. He fought at Yorktown. His official discharge paper is signed by one, "Geo. Washington, General of the Army" and resides at the Loudonville, Ohio Library.
Pension? From what I gather, the US Congress were skinflints about a pension--they required a personal appearance at each state capitol to swear an affidavit stating they were a Veteran. Amassa walked the 82 miles to Columbus, Ohio, signed the papers, and eventually received his $3/month pension ($75 in 2025 dollars) before he passed on in 1841. The pension was listed in his Probate estate.
GOD BLESS ALL VETERANS!
This is crazy. John Goodnow of Sudbury, MA, of the 12 pensioners listed in the newspaper is my direct ancestor.
Would be interesting to check their offspring’s to see if their average life span was longer than the average.
Why does that guy have a tablecloth wrapped around his neck
Because he’s diverse
@@el_alemanso you're saying that he identified as a table? 🙄
This is fascinating! How cool to have fought for the USA's founding as a nation.
My 4th Great-Grandfather, George Roberts of North Carolina, was part of the last small number, dying on January 1, 1864 at the age of 105. His name was published in newspapers across the country in 1860, along with 206 others, on a list of the last-surviving Revolutionary War veterans. Would love to know which number he made it to (15th-last, 20th-last, whatever number).
🫡 from NC
These were the last remaining colonial Britons of the United States. It still amazes me how not too long ago US Americans were also subject to the authority of the British Crown and lived by the laws passed by a Parliament meeting over 4000km away in good old London.
Considering how different the two countries are today, if it were not for their common usage of English, one would think they were total strangers to one another.
1:49 John Goodnow, 120 years old? Wow.
1:50 I wonder if John Goodnow was truly 120 years old
From what I could find, no
It was a misprint, he was 101 at death
And then they didn't talk at all about the real histories lol.
6:41 E pluribus Unum to a T! If it wasn’t for these elderly gentleman, we wouldn’t have a country at all
I think I saw the original Dr Who iin the top left of your thumbnail.
yes I thought he looked like William Hartnell too!
Interesting!
It blows my mind that the average of those veterans lifespans after the war was over 100 years old.....and we get lucky if we get to 80 years old now..
They were the lucky ones. Most didn't live that long.
My 5th great-grandfather Alexander Hughes fought in the Revolutionary War, and he only lived to 81 years and 7 months. It's been very hard to find out anything about him though. He left a will, and he had some land, but otherwise there doesn't seem to be a record of him. I wish there had been even a sketch of him, and his wife. I don't think people prioritized that at the time.
Well, we’re going to your grocery stores that are foreign anyway remember everything in the grocery store is designed to give you disease$$$$$
Why does that blow your mind?
@ that our lifespans seem to be going down
PRETTY FRICKIN AWESOME 😎💯 👍🇺🇸
Oh lord. My first reaction was to turn off the video in the first 20 seconds
Fascinating stuff. I often wonder if the native population of the continent would have been better off if the revolution had failed. No Louisiana Purchase? No Lewis and Clark? No gold rush? No "manifest destiny"? Perhaps the North American continent would have been divided up like Africa into colonial nations, to later revolt into weird little multiplicities.
Thank god the war was won.
The working class would have a far better lifestyle today if that had happened. You would even have a proper democracy with checks and balances. You would have better quality manufacturing and decent food and medical standards
No sorry, they still would have. You just hate us and it shows. Every nation has conquered. And the Brits would have been worse. Your bias just shows.
Crazy I'm looking at pictures of people born 240 years before me
Super interesting
What the heck does that one dude have around his neck?
1:48 John Goodnow aged 120 years and 2 months. 💀
It looks like the First Doctor was involved the American Revolution! How cool!
These Revolutionary soldiers were ethnic English and I am proud to see my ethnic kin who fought for their English rights. It was a horrible English Civil War in North America.
Some Scots, some Irish
@Patrick3183 Yes, almost all were British, but the vast majority were English. There weren't many Irish there because Catholicism was practically illegal
@@Patrick3183Majority we’re English
That’s incorrect. The largest percentage of Revolutionary soldiers by far were Scotch. Irish. They hated the British for good reason.
@davidtrindle6473 Good God. Didn't you know the Scottish are British? They are not mutually exclusive. British = English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish (though generally Protestant Irish). Every single founding father was ethnic English.
We didn't have a revolution, the French did. The American colonists fought for independence. The British government said that the American colonists had all the rights and obligations befitting their status as full citizens of the realm. But they just seemed to focus on the obligations. The American colonists were fighting for the status quo. Had the British government been competent we would be one large (un) happy Canada now.