How Warrior-Farmers Defeated the World's Most Powerful Empire | American Revolution
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2022
- Agriculture is the greatest source of power for any individual or nation-a fact which is easy to forget when farmers are constantly caricatured and mocked in media and entertainment. This is how an Empire was defeated by men and women who worked the land.
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From Benjamin Franklin to ---, 28 November 1768
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From Benjamin Franklin to George Washington, 5 March 1780
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I was taught about the American revolution in high school here in Australia. It is lamentable that the majority here paid no heed to its principles, else they mightnt have been blinded to what is becoming of our nation now. Thank you for doing these videos, they are produced to a very high standard. I also just watched your Stamp Act documentary, which was incredibly pertinent and likewise well done.
Getting rid of your guns was a death sentence for your freedoms
Americans haven’t paid attention to it either. That’s why we’re in the situation we are in.
Yea, more Americans need to be taught that the American Revolution was a tax revolt by slaver aristocrats, so that they better can embody the twin American principles of slavery-oppression and hostility towards the public good.
Living in the heartland of the American midwest, you would be hard-pressed to find many people where I am from, at least in the many small towns of my state, that do not have a great respect for our farmers. Perhaps I am biased because my father-in-law has been farming the same land his entire life, who I respect greatly. Awesome set of videos on this subject.
The farmers are deeply respected by many of us on the East coast and we are appauled~ and concerned ~ at their mistreatment by coorporations
@@grainofsand4176 My Mom's side are all farmers in Southern Saskatchewan.. 2700 acres.. The family homesteaded when Saskatchewan and Alberta were opened up by the Transit Canadian railroad... They organize themselves around the town of Ogema.. My grandpa ran the towns tractor sales repair and maintenance business... My mom remembers everyone getting..
Farmers are a different breed from what I would call us domesticated virgins of ourselves... Because they're more connected to the work and the toil and the gratitude that what's gifted to us by previous generations.. and we completely disconnected ourselves from that or at least I have.. Just imagine 100 years ago moving your entire family your entire life.. into a virgin prairie ocean of grass.. and having to kill that soil for the first time ever. How tough that would be.. and you're not just doing that from sun up to sundown. You are putting up shelter sod house initially.. because the fences in the barn was probably more important.. course field was top priority.. You wouldn't drill a well until second or third year I think or at least that's what I've gathered by researching it.. I've been digging into it relentlessly the last couple years.. Yes, I Just know with a certainty that if I was Halo dropped into the late 1800s early 1900s and had to do what they did.. had to lead a family and do that type of work with that type of success and accomplishment.. generations of providing food for not just Canada in the US but the world.. When the Great plains came online, got connected to rail and the Great lakes and was able to export to Europe.. Green prices dropped 30 or 40% globally.. Is that much of an impact that much supply . And did the same thing when Saskatchewan and Alberta came online... Your family was busy and diligent and tough and independent than you had to take care of themselves. Then you have to handle themselves.. confidence. One of them would have the job of walking to the nearest stream every day. Multiple times today to get water for the family.. It's not like Saskatchewan's laced with rivers.. they were walking miles.. They had to get the vegetable garden going.. Hunt for meat.. Not many of the brought cattle with them.. at least not initially.. was mostly everything into making sure that they had enough seed to get into the soil as fast as they could and as much as it could...
You would be interesting to know whether the average homesteader family was actually able to completely till end plant all the deeded land...
Imagine how quiet that would be.. walking to the stream multiple times a day. Get water.. You had time to think.. Yeah, time to let your mind wander.. You knew that you were providing a valuable service to your family that they appreciate it and knew that you were providing and were thankful for your efforts.. no connection. Nothing but the sound of the wind in that endless ocean of prairie.. I love flat prairie. I could drive through it for weeks... I find it calming..
And most importantly, What I would believe would be the first thing that we would notice if we were transported back to their time. The utter lack of complaining and whining and feeling sorry for ourselves because we don't stack up Who we compare ourselves to in these insanely connected and cancerous devices..
No complaining... and not just that They don't stop there.. They had gratitude.. genuine soul spouting gratitude.. and they had a sense of balance and empathy with their neighbors, their community.. They knew how tenuous how risky What they were attempting to accomplish was.. and they knew they were going to need help at some point. That was the first thing they thought of when they woke up the morning.. They never gave a second thought to helping their neighbor or their community in any way form or fashion.. They knew one good turn deserves another. And that he can't have a good crop every year.. There were going to be some bad ones.. some lean years.. So when times were good.. They kept themselves in check.. They never got too far out, too confident or irrationally optimistic about what they felt a deserved or were owed in this life.. because a had a deep understanding of hardship.. and how fragile life could be?.
How a disease could swing through your community. Like a whirlwind and take half a dozen 5 and 6-year-olds.. How you just dealt with chronic ailments unless it got so bad that you couldn't function. Couldn't even move. These people so stubborn they would never want to be a bother. Be a nuisance or take help without what they felt was a time when they truly needed it.. and they were so proud and stubborn and completely allergic to taking help that they thought could be better utilize somewhere else in the community.. was an arms race in reverse..
Pennsylvania native here 🎉
I really love your content. It isn’t brief throw away entertainment- it’s truly thought provoking concepts that promotes contemplation and self reflection. Thinking through these ideas in my own mind has made, and is making me a better person- and I’m really thankful to you for it.
Wonderful video. Ben Franklin was truly one of America's first great thinkers.
Its amazing that Franklin had only a 2 nd grade education but made himself a scholar.
I found this video while searching for something to listen to while I clean my AR. Success.
"Kinda like if nowadays Congress said to Texas, "You don't get to have a governor or lawmaker's anymore. The Federal Congress is just going to make all of your laws now, and we going to send Federal law enforcement to enforce everything and you don't get a say" great analogy and sad to think it's possible. But that would be their undoing.
These are excellently created videos. Not boring at all! Intelligent too. Well done, Sir! Thank you
The entire myth of Heracles, or Hercules in Latin is a most wonderful and rich tale. And you know it is Greek, when it isn't just gripping and interesting poetry, but also a mind provocing piece of philosophy.
Wow
✨"Those who are most in tune with the earth, serving it and tending it well... .." 💖✨
Not noticing the final words of this video's title, I initially thought it might be an examination of how the agrarian Greeks were able to defeat the Persians. It seems that history really does rhyme from time to time...
Which is ironic considering how many of those Greek Cities willingly took Persian bribes before and after their invasion to fund their own petty disputes.
Medal Of Honor music! Sounded so familiar. I hadn't played that game since I was a little kinder. Guessed it right away.
The first paragraphs of this upload give me the feels. It seems so self evident, but not thoughts many of us come to, on our own. Franklin's belief in the United States is a love story, to me, and a few of your sentences coalesced how I feel about the man. More education to come, I am sure, as happened to me with my hero, Churchill. Alas, flesh and blood:)
Very good video, I enjoyed it thoroughly.
The great irony of the American farmer, is that while he is very resilient, industrious, and creative; he also is by the same token, his own worst enemy. Tis a sad state of affairs to say the least.
How is he his own worst enemy?
Owen Bishop, I too would like an explanation as to how the American Farmer is his own worst enemy.🇺🇸
The traits that make the American farmer such an icon, are his individualism, ingenuity, resilience, and overall stubbornness. These traits make the farmer difficult to subdue (though not impossible to subdue).
However, the farmer is very much a creature of habit. This, along with the commitment to individualism, and further amplified by the stubbornness, work against him.
What I mean by this, is that in the face of changing times, the farmer does what he has always done. He refuses to alter his methods and habits, no matter if they are working or not. If he can be convinced that they work, then in his mind, they work. There are many factors that produce this result. However, for the sake of simplicity, I shall summarize them in this way:
Gov't (primarily) incentives and controls have forced most farmers into a rut. This rut consists of planting the same crops, on the same ground, year after year. Such crops are then sold for a price that is just enough (usually) to satisfy the expenses such a farmer has accrued.
Such expenses are accrued (usually) by purchasing equipment that is overpriced, because the farmer is convinced it will bring him profit. Once he finds out it does not, he seeks out more land to justify the new equipment purchase, only to discover he needs more equipment to farm the land.
The cycle repeats. I have seen it first hand in my area (South Central Kansas). Why does this not stop? Because somehow, the farmer is convinced he will make money.
To the outside observer, this seems almost like stupidity; that the farmer has this "tunnel vision" and cannot seem to "think outside the box". In reality, it is no different than any of the rest of us. We get into our heads that something is a good idea, and we convince ourselves it is a good idea. To accept an alternative is inconceivable, not so much because of pride, but just that the right thing has not been said to change our minds. One simple word, or phrase, can cause something to click in our heads. At that point, we look at things differently.
On top of all that, consider that most farmers watched and learned from their fathers and grandfathers. It's not so easy to radically change someone's ways, especially when they learned from their family.
I hope this is a sufficient expansion of my main comment. If not, let me know.
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I have seen variations on this basic dissertation many times. However, in the field (no pun intended), the thing resulting in the reduction of traditional family farms is simple economy of scale. It is more economical (and thus profitable) to grow 10,000+ acres of wheat or corn than it is to grow a section (640 acres) of the same crop. The large multinational agricultural corporations can afford to buy/lease farmland in these quantities, most family farmers cannot.
However, in certain areas, particularly where you can get more than one harvest per year, the family farms are doing quite well. Here in rural Arizona, growing a combination of cotton, silage, and hay, many family farms are very profitable. Of course, many of these folks sing tales of woe about barely scraping by, but that rings a little hollow when each adult member of the family gets a fully loaded $75,000+ pickup truck or SUV as a personal vehicle every year or two.😁
@@Mighty-Quinn - you know nothing about the American farmer, obvious from what you’ve attempted to explain here.🇺🇸
When I was a boy, my grandmother kept a garden. When my mother became a single mother between jobs, many many times our supper was corn bread and purple hull peas, or butterbeans. Our garden kept us fed. I did not suffer for it, having grown into a 6'2 man. I suspect, if the power mad corporatists and political class keep printing money and starting wars, we will all become gardeners out of necessity.
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A brilliant reminder, not to take things for granted...even a simple garden.
China too...because now, they may only grow "State approved Crops"...for obvious reasons...
F' that shite..!!
Just wonderful!
Dude, your content is really decent and worthwhile. Keep it going!
Tremendous content. I shall pass your channel along to all my history buff friends!
Brilliant
Medal of Honor music. Love it.
For a second I thought you were talking about the Vietnam war
This applies to the modern war on farming.
I thought this was about the Viet Cong
Marvelous as always!
I Would love to see you talking about 'Taxi Driver' psychology behind that great movie, The way you conduct your content is simply insane of how great it is, and seeing you doing a video about 'taxi driver' would be 'INSANE!!'
Wildly well produced video! Keep it up this is such an amazing viewpoint
When they go after farmers, they are going after you.
Shame to see how that same empire descended into a dark hole so dark like never seen before
Nice soundtrack, as always.
I enjoyed that. Thanks.
Vietnam, cough cough...
Who else has started their own garden this spring? ;)
We need more on the American Revolution. Here's an idea: i've noticed the perspective of the average redcoat is never taken into consideration. I don't mean the Loyalists, I mean the troops from the British Isles. How many stayed behind? How many deserted? What motivated them? Were they enthusiastic? Maybe you could do a video on that topic? 😊
As always, a thoughtful and provocative examination of a topic that is still as relevant today, as it was to those who participated in its actual events. A few observations. First and most important is the question of what would have befallen the Americans in the United States had there not been a "revolution/rebellion" against their own King. Would they have eventually become democratic constitutional monarchies the likes of Austrailia, Canada and other Commonwealth nations? Perhaps, or perhaps it the American Revolution (most of the folk watching will prefer that terminology) was an historical necessity that, like the French Revolution, set much of the world on the path to responsible and constitutional government and democratic processes, even if many still retain a monarch as their head of state. There can be much to recommend and sometimes great danger in thrusting the responsibility of being a head of state onto some poor unfortunate by accident of birth and birth order. Think of King David.
Second, I don't think it was all that uncommon for military levies to be released to insure food production and the next harvest, although I'm no expert on this topic.
To some degree, I think that this video becomes caught up in the standard heroic and domestic narrative from the American perspective. It would be interesting to examine the causes of the American Revolution from both an economic and a Marxist perspective. From a military perspective I think that Colin Powell would agree that the British simply failed to commit sufficient men and logistics to the response after hostilities commenced and continued.
As the narration goes, this wasn't a social revolution, but a political one. One group of rich dudes are upset with how the proceeds of the economy were going to be distributed with another group of, generally more privileged and non-resident, but also rich dudes, with one aspect of the dispute who was going to pay for the military presence, especially after the French had been evicted from the continent. If the stated purpose, which is attributed to Franklin was an "agrarian self-defence without wars of expansion" then that was certainly short-lived. Let's be cautious not to adopt the popular narrative too much, it tends to obscure the lessons of history. As always a joy to watch and ponder upon.
no taxation without representation
How do warrior farmers defeat a global superpower? By learning from officers of the great land powers like Baron von Steuben, Kościuszko, and the Marquis De Lafayette.
"A kind of sherwood forrest for lovers of freedom" isn't that just a sherwood forest
Depends on the version of Robin Hood you're hearing. Sometimes Robin is a bandit sometimes he's a disinherited noble trying to get his wealth back.
In all cases however he is a royalist and very often a crusader.
Same thing happened in Vietnam
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Oh hey, I recognized the second movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony around the 9-10 minute mark
The Founding Fathers are the greatest heroes the world has ever known. It’s insane that they were all alive at the same time, in the same place, fighting for the same side. It was a miracle
Yeah... slavers... how heroic...
Heroes dont choose to own people.
Where my fellow Pennsylvania born citizens at? Our state not only stopped the British, but the racist south in the civil war as well.
Agriculture is key to PR liberty. Puerto Rico has been a United States (US) colony for the past 123 years. The US government (USG) has violated the United Nations’ (UN) Charter of 1945 that prohibits colonialism in order to maintain Puerto Rico colonized. The USG has also ignored 40 UN resolutions asking it to immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans. Colonialism, if you didn’t know, is a crime against humanity! Thomas Jefferson saw agriculture as a formidable way to obtain the independence of the 13 American Colonies from Britain. Puerto Rico right now imports 80% of the food that Puerto Ricans eat. Since the 9 million Puerto Ricans worldwide will have to engage in permanent resistance to force the USG to comply with international law and decolonize Puerto Rico, one aspect of that resistance should be becoming agriculturally self-sufficient. Puerto Rico should begin with coffee, since she was known throughout the world for her excellence in that crop. And, as Puerto Rico becomes less profitable to the US’ 1% of citizens, Puerto Ricans will get closer to obtaining our independence. Farming to hasten our freedom.
That's a fine and noble goal but as of now, Puerto Rico relies upon the U.S. far more than the U.S. relies upon Puerto Rico. In the Philipines, America was not wanted and fought bloody battles for independence and they also required nothing from America. It was universally desirable for the Philipines to be a free state and the people made it happen by resisting U.S. hegemony but can the same be said of Puerto Rico? Is there not a movement in Puerto Rico to become the 51st state? Does Puerto Rico not benefit economically from being a U.S. territory? In the case of the American Revolution, the U.S. gained very little for remaining under the rule of the British Empire and seemed to be mostly an exploited party and while the same could have been said of Puerto Rico at one time I don't think that the same could be said at the present time. I'm all for Puerto Rico becoming independent if the people desire it but I've seen Puerto Ricans taking pride in both being an American and being a Puerto Rican capable of freely traveling the U.S., voting, and running for government office. Perhaps one day there will be a U.S. president from Puerto Rico.
Today in western nations we see the agricultural sector being slowly but forcefully through new laws and legislation taken from the common people and put into the hands of mega corporations who are no doubt controlled at the highest levels by those government entities feeding them the control of the land. For that and other reasons to numerous to mention the end result will of course be the subservience of most or all of western nations to their respective or even collective governments. As the right to privacy, private property, non traceable money and most importantly armed self protection are all eradicated mankind will learn once again the cold hard truth that absolute power corupts absolutely. And I fear for most western nations that lessen will have to be learned through decades if not centuries of the most brutal oppressions and slaveries that totalitarian regimes always produce and lay upon the common people. Our hope is of course that there are always places on the earth where liberty is being preserved and where those who can escape the tyrant nations may flee too. My personal opinion is that the sub Saharan central regions of Africa will become the place where all who can escape the west will eventually go. Particularly the far western and eastern regions of that continent. But what region of earth do you believe will be the new bastion of freedom 100 years from now?
Thought you were talking about Vietnam
It can happen again
chy-na cannot effectively feed itself
Yeah they're own people suffer the worst because of there awful government thank goodness we live in America
Wait a second...this sounds familiar...
Say this title and thought it was going to be about the War on Terror in Afghanistan 😂
The myth of the madness of king George is one major myth. The problems of distance and supply and the french Indian as enemies was the result. The 1812 war ended differently.
No, America's success rested on the French muskets, artillery, gunpowder and generals without whom the revolution would have fizzled out come the next harvest.
And France would never have done that if not for initial American military successes.
It was proven after independence that the militia ideal was not fit for purpose, however it was a very English way of looking at things, the English had established militias to fight off the Vikings and they didn't really lose prominence until the English civil, by which time a considerable number of American colonies had already transposed English particularitisms onto America.
You’re underestimating the importance of the militia’s
There was a point when the people were so pissed off that the British tried sending 2k redcoats to a city near Philly to raid if for supplies and the entire 2k was captured or killed by the town militia alone. After the battle of Trenton, it wasn’t Washington to cut off the British escape to the sea, it was a militia that blocked their crossing at a river. You’re right about the French supplying all the guns, but as someone else mentioned, the French weren’t willing to support the colonies until they saw the colonies had a real chance of winning. At first they left america on its own, and it wasn’t until a few big victories that France jumped on board. I live in southeast PA, I was born here. So I’ve been to a lot of the battlefields, and the monuments. If not on my own then via school field trips.
An interesting perspective from a British historian on these issues: ruclips.net/video/A_YshIZzY6w/видео.html
I very much look forward to further instalments on this topic.
Ironically all of this is a very very English way of looking at and understanding things.
Meanwhile, in Utah...
Shame the USA isnt governed by farming folk.
And another thing:-
Britain in the 18th century was not a powerful empire. Just a few dots on the map and the American colonies. Britain became a powerful empire only later.
Well it was becoming so,having won the seven years war gave it more power and new lands than ever and meant it was substantially stronger than even France,and the European powers saw a chance to knock the uk down a peg or two by aiding the colonists in separating from the empire,that’s what I heard anyway.
So exactly what parts of the 19th century British Empire, did the colonists, France, Spain, Holland and the Mysore, think that they were fighting in the 18th century?
The Tory side consisted only of British soldiers, American Tories and some German Auxiliaries.
Do you think that those forces included Australians, New Zealander’s and South
Africans etc?
Britain was the most powerful European nation by the late 1700’s. It was nowhere near “a few dots on the map”.
France, Austria, Prussia and Russia were all arguably as powerful as Britain and certainly were far more powerful on the continent itself, however Britain's excellent economic condition, clearly diplomacy and status as an Island sea power made them punch above their weight. Indeed a big reason for the revolution being such a crisis for Britain was that they became complacent and failed to hold down a European alliance, there had previously been suggestions of an alliance with Russia and if it had gone ahead then the supporters of the revolution would have been tied up in Europe and the continent probably would have slid back into widespread conflict. Such a situation would have allowed the British to prioritise America and crush the rebels, as well as silence the large contingent of sympathisers at home.
The biggest and most powerful Empire in the 18th century was Spanish and on the American side.
Spain was already in decline by the 18th century. France and Britain where the big power players.
You can make the same argument about the Vietnamese angaints the U.S. ...😂
Did they grow the AKMs, MIGs and AA missiles? I don't want undercut what the NVA and Vietcong did because it was impressive but they didn't do it alone.
Neither did we.
@@jacob5395 we had them already at least small arms.
The colonists had a thriving export economy both prior to and after the revolution. Windsor style chairs were exported out of Philadelphia and other chair making centers. Tobacco, cotton, whaling, fishing etc., were industries that needed foreign markets. The farmer soldier myth is a disservice to your channel. Professional soldiers won the revolutionary War. It is impossible to both farm and fight a war. The American economy was very productive and the British did everything they could to destroy it. Franklin's lament was how badly the the British were managing their most productive colonies. And don't gloss over the British threat to free the slaves as punishment and a strategy to wreck the economy.
And yet, America suffered the same fate by the Vietnamese and the Afghans lol
The lead up to the American Revolution is one of the worst catastrophes in English-speaking history. The reluctance to provide fellow Anglos the right to representation in any shape or form led to the violent split of Anglo civilisation in two, and to the disastrous and naive post-imperial geopolitical system which the United States is now struggling to keep afloat.
I think you just have a fetish for farming.
They got the immigrants to do it for them?