13:00 English medal commemorating the "taking" of Cartagena de Indias by admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins' Ear. The medal depicts the Spanish admiral Blas de Lezo (Don Blass) with his two legs, on his knees giving his sword to admiral Vernon. After the crushing defeat suffered by the English fleet in the battle of Cartagena, the medals were retired, but some were saved. The medal says "The pride of Spain humbled by Ad. Vernon". (wikipedia) Blas de Lezo or the most handicapped badass ever.
Here in northeastern Florida, the War of Jenkin's Ear is mostly remembered because of the unsuccessful attempt by James Oglethorpe (English Royal Governor of Georgia) to take the City of St Augustine, then the main Spanish settlement in Florida. An interesting footnote to the siege of St Augustine by Oglethorpe's troops is that black militiamen, mostly escaped slaves from Georgia who were admitted to Spanish Florida and became Spanish subjects there, participated in the defense of St Augustine, fighting their erstwhile masters, so to speak. They manned an outpost, Fort Mosé, a few miles north of the City; though this fortlet was taken by British troops, its black defenders fell back on the City's fortifications, picked up Spanish reinforcements, and retook Fort Mosé in a short, sharp action. (It helped that the British troops that had initially taken the Fort were mostly Scots, who quickly found and drank its store of wine and spirits, and so were by and large in no fit condition to offer organized resistance to the counterattack.)
In one of my college history classes my professor was about to give lecture on Jenkins' ear, and for what ever reason I raised my hand and asked 'Is it called The war for Jenkins' ear, because some guy named Jenkins got it cut off', to which he simply replied 'yes'.
This is easily one of the best channels on RUclips. I’ve learned so much about history from THG that I never would have known I was missing. And he proves that anybody who believes that history is boring has just never heard it told properly :)
True. It has been my experience that the reason people around my neck of the woods find history boring is because it was taught by bored (American) football coaches. No offense to them.
Toast it with a tot of watered-down rum; the admiral for whom it was named is the self-same man who took to diluting his crew's rum ration to reduce drunkenness. He was known as Old Grog due to the material of his cloak, and thus grog came to a derogatory term for the weaker cocktail.
Arlington National Cemetery is on the site of Arlington House, Robert E Lee's home before the Civil War. The plantation belonged to his wife who was a niece of Martha Washington. At the beginning of the war, Major Lee was offered command of the Union army but he turned it down because he didn't want to fight his fellow Virginians.
This was a wonderful story. It reminds be of an old BBC show called "Conections" by James Burke. Mr Burke believed that history flowed like a river, with a small current here causing a big event numerous miles (years) down stream.
@@nilo70 Yep. But those Polyester bell-bottomed pant-suits! Can't be excised from memory ... I've you've the chance, Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed" is also brilliantly done.
Like the Boer War and the taking of the gold fields in the Transvaal, followed by the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank? Cecil John Rhodes, financed by NM Rothschild, leading to his own country, Rhodesia.
What's interesting is that the Spanish Hapsburgs were so interbred and fugly that they all looked alike. When Charles II picture came up my first thought was, "Not sure which one but definitely a Hapsburg!"
the alliteration was flying furiously in explaining eradication of an ear..... well done H.G. I thought the "pickled" ear had been presented in Parliment though the arguments for war from the curled cartilege fell on deaf................ well, you know.
Anything with Pirates is great, one of the most popular rides at Disneyland is "Pirates Of The Caribbean" Thanks History Guy for all your time and hard work. All your viewers appreciate it.....
Excellently told, thank you. A loaf is after all just a Conglomeration of many parts and only you can find all the bread crumbs. That sounded better in my head...
I was familiar with the martial amputation of Jenkin's Ear, and the war that ensued, but have never heard it told in such an informative nor entertaining fashion
Laurence Washington's CO, Adm. Edw. Vernon, was known as "Old Grog" because of the wool-and-silk cloak he wore; the fabric was known as "grogram." He is infamous in the Royal Navy for cutting the men's daily rum ration with water, to make "grog," supposedly to cut down on drunken brawls. The noonday tradition of serving grog only ended in 1970.
Operation Musketeer, Suez 1956. The last casualty taken by British forces was a tank commander called Sgt. Jacknik, who was struck by a bullet in his ear. For there on, the conflict became known as The War of Jackniks Ear. Because history deserves a good pun.
...and of course Admiral Sir Edward Vernon - known by the nickname "Old Grog" because of his grogram cloak - ordered that his crews be issued a ration of diluted rum to make the foetid water on board ships more drinkable and so gave the world grog.
I love the smirk on your face right at the end, as you tie up those last few strings and slap a proud bow on top! Marvelous. Well thought out, and brilliantly executed. That’s why your channel is the best at historical tales, and biographies. You put in the work, you do your research and go far and beyond the topic in order to tie it in to the rest of our history and then present it in a way that is thoughtful and entertaining to the point that you forget that it’s educational, but you remember a great story. Thank you so much for the work that you and your wife put into these videos.
I once read in the Time-Life Seafarers volume entitled "The Ocean Liners" the the Queen Mary while crossing the Atlantis as a Troop Ship was hit broadside by a rogue wave. She nearly capsized with 3,000 troops on board. She tipped over, beyond the point of no return, where her funnels were just feet away from the water. This would make a great topic for one of your episodes.
Please consider developing an episode about the White Rajahs of Sarawak. Pirates, headhunters and possibly, dare I say, cannibals, are part of the story. The Brooke dynasty in Sarawak is an interesting tale. Thanks you for your efforts.
While I'm glad Blinkist is your sponsor, and I'm also happy you find it useful. However, when a friend showed it to me I found the few books I've saw on it as being little more than a copy of the contents page and carried less content than the 'Notes' books of similar books.
This was perhaps the closest HG narrative yet to the old PBS series "Connections" from James Burke. The program would run through various disparate narratives of inventions, scientific advances and even cultural developments, and by the end of an episode demonstrate how they were all intertwined. Tying together a severed ear, mercantilism, pirates and George Washington was masterful indeed. Always a pleasure to watch these!
Whenever the history of Europe is mentioned, it is always a great, colossal mess, but somehow, it seems to come back to something familiar. Thanks, HG.
'If you enjoyed this episode please click the thumbs up', I don't think there has ever been an episode that I didn't think deserved a thumbs up. Love your work.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper. The bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?" And the pirate says: "AAAARRRRRRGH, It's driving me Nuts."
Same pirate walks into the bar the next night, this time with a paper towel on his head. Bartender asks. What’s with the paper towel. Pirate says : arrrrgh. They put a bounty on me head.
The air quotes at 11:50 were particularly poignant. I'm imagining now a swarthy pirate captain using just such hand signs while regaling his admirers over a stiff grog or bumbo...with a captured ear as the centerpiece for effect.😲
History Guy: not only the master of history but the master of alliteration. :) I'm a big fan of them, as it makes the words more memorable. And it often adds a chuckle. You had many memorable ones in this episode! :-)
Does not even comment on Cartagena. 190 ship armada huge failure, and Blas de Lezo heroic defense, not a word of the largest armada to that day being humilliated. Anglo saxon history at its best
I need to put in a plug for an awesome work of history and literature: "Marlborough: His Life and Times" by Winston Churchill. Marlboro may be one of the greatest Generals you've never heard of. He lead the Allies against the French in the War of the Spanish Succession. Its the best history/biography I've ever read. Its a big commitment -- 4 volumes. But its worth it. Stay away from abridged editions. Also, it helps to have knowledge of English history from around the time of the Stewart Restoration. Churchill's audience was of course his countrymen and the book assumes basic knowledge or various people and events of the time. So a read of Churchill's "A History of the English Speaking People" is a good primer.
Pirates! I just found out that an 8th great grandfather had been captaining a ship from Barbados to Boston in 1717 when his ship was captured by pirates.
Curious hardly much thought was given to the siege and battle of Cartegena. Easily the most important episode of the war. I know that the pirate talk is impressove. I actually had no idea this war included so much pirate on pirate action... But you left out Blas the Lezo, the main Spabish character of this war: he eas missing an eye, an arm and a leg. People called him Medio-hombre (Half-man)
This is an excellent example of what I didn't learn in public school. Eagerly awaiting your next video. One of my favorite books was about a man named leTourneau, who invented large construction equipment. There were a few twists in his life too.
A small inaccuracy, in 5:31 & 5:53, that's not Phillip Duke of Anjou but King Phillip IV father of Charles II the Bewitched. The "bewitched" translation is more exact than "mad". It was translated from the original Spanish epithet: "embrujado" as it was believed he was under a spell for his physical misfortunes.
My husband, who enjoyed going to Mt. Vernon, and who died back in Feb., would have enjoyed knowing how Mt. Vernon came to be named so. He would have laughed at these last few minutes of history that deserved to be remembered.
Fascinating as usual. Most entertaining, however, were the plethora of creative appellations you were able to conjure for that important sensory member and it's unfortunate avulsion!
WOW..what a convoluted tale..empires,nation states,politicts,trade and corrupt politicians...Pirates,Privateers an Buccaneers..Oh my !!! And 12° of separation.
Yes! I'm fairly sure this is a coincidence, but you covered a topic I suggested in an email! Now my husband believes me that I didn't make this up. Lol I have a million and one other suggestions you may or may not have covered or be interested in covering. My favorite historical figure Sir Richard Burton (not the actor), another great explorer Pedro Teixeira, a few French royals Catherine de Medici and Henry of Navarre, and because I love my home and it's quirky past... Cyrus Teed, and the Koreshan Unity "New Jerusalem"
This period including the War of the Spanish Succession is easily one of the most convoluted in European history. It shows that back even then how closely tied and therefore small Europe was and everything was interconnected, and we are still arguing amongst ourselves even now but woe betide anyone from outside who tries to interfere.
I am a direct descendant of Edward Fuller who was second in command (colonist) of a British force which came down from New England during the War of Jenkins Ear to kick the Spanish out of Beaufort, North Carolina, a part of the war I never hear about. Edward loved the area so much, he decided to stay. I only knew of this war through family history in which it was called the 'war of Jenkins Era' due to the multi-generational game of telephone. After all, who would name a war after an ear?!
The biggest pirate or really, privateer, was the Dutch guy Piet Heyn, he actually stole a complete silver fleet of the Spanish. The Spanish produced silver in South America and once a year it was shipped to Spain with a heavy armed fleet. Well, not in 1628. The whole fleet was taken in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas and all the treasure taken to Holland, unloaded in Hellevoetsluis. It took 6 days to unload. The worth of that is estimated at 100.000.000.000 Euro (119.000.000.000 $) if you look at what it would have paid for at the time. This event is still celebrated in the Netherlands, saving accounts for kids are called Zilvervloot (silver fleet). Now there is History worth to be remembered
13:00 English medal commemorating the "taking" of Cartagena de Indias by admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins' Ear. The medal depicts the Spanish admiral Blas de Lezo (Don Blass) with his two legs, on his knees giving his sword to admiral Vernon. After the crushing defeat suffered by the English fleet in the battle of Cartagena, the medals were retired, but some were saved. The medal says "The pride of Spain humbled by Ad. Vernon". (wikipedia)
Blas de Lezo or the most handicapped badass ever.
Here in northeastern Florida, the War of Jenkin's Ear is mostly remembered because of the unsuccessful attempt by James Oglethorpe (English Royal Governor of Georgia) to take the City of St Augustine, then the main Spanish settlement in Florida. An interesting footnote to the siege of St Augustine by Oglethorpe's troops is that black militiamen, mostly escaped slaves from Georgia who were admitted to Spanish Florida and became Spanish subjects there, participated in the defense of St Augustine, fighting their erstwhile masters, so to speak. They manned an outpost, Fort Mosé, a few miles north of the City; though this fortlet was taken by British troops, its black defenders fell back on the City's fortifications, picked up Spanish reinforcements, and retook Fort Mosé in a short, sharp action. (It helped that the British troops that had initially taken the Fort were mostly Scots, who quickly found and drank its store of wine and spirits, and so were by and large in no fit condition to offer organized resistance to the counterattack.)
I loved the many, many humorous terms The History Guy used to describe the amputation of Jenkins' ear. Beautiful creativity! 😁
And artful alliteration!
It was a little over whelming as there was no end to the terms that THG used for the pickled appendage
He certainly talked my ear off! Ba-dum-dum!
@@rcknbob1 Wish I had remembered to call it that but I forgot the word
We loved how much THG enjoyed telling this tale of terrible torture and the seemingly ceaseless serial warfare.
In one of my college history classes my professor was about to give lecture on Jenkins' ear, and for what ever reason I raised my hand and asked 'Is it called The war for Jenkins' ear, because some guy named Jenkins got it cut off', to which he simply replied 'yes'.
This is easily one of the best channels on RUclips. I’ve learned so much about history from THG that I never would have known I was missing. And he proves that anybody who believes that history is boring has just never heard it told properly :)
True. It has been my experience that the reason people around my neck of the woods find history boring is because it was taught by bored (American) football coaches. No offense to them.
nothing like a 'history guy' pirate story to start a friday
aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
That is a great story Jenkins's ear..... this episode is a classic case in how history of many different nations are intertwined!
Why do tales about pirates make the best stories? Cos they just aargh 🏴☠️
I'm sure thats what Jenkins said as well
I sea.
That's almost as cheap as some of my replies.
I thought the castle of Aargh was in England
Everyone thinks R is a pirates favourite letter. Bit intact the love the C 😋
The prodigious preponderance of alliterative assertions in this verbose video is incredibly impressive.
Verbose, no. It kept my attention, which is about two minutes long. Enthralling, yes.
Most famous ear removals;
Van Gogh's "gift"
Peter lopping off the soldier's ear
This one.
Honorable mention:
Mike Tyson. Only partial credit.
I think that Mike Tyson would have been a pirate if he was born 100 years ago . 😅
Definitely the Biblical account.
@@richblantin1343 he does have the most pirate of tattoos.
Let us not forget Paul Getty, whose ear was famously removed by his kidnappers.
@@richblantin1343 He would probably have been too Sea-Sick to pirate!
There’s always a back story, isn’t there? Now I know more about Mt. Vernon, of all things! Thanks, THG!! 😀
Toast it with a tot of watered-down rum; the admiral for whom it was named is the self-same man who took to diluting his crew's rum ration to reduce drunkenness. He was known as Old Grog due to the material of his cloak, and thus grog came to a derogatory term for the weaker cocktail.
Arlington National Cemetery is on the site of Arlington House, Robert E Lee's home before the Civil War. The plantation belonged to his wife who was a niece of Martha Washington.
At the beginning of the war, Major Lee was offered command of the Union army but he turned it down because he didn't want to fight his fellow Virginians.
This was a wonderful story. It reminds be of an old BBC show called "Conections" by James Burke. Mr Burke believed that history flowed like a river, with a small current here causing a big event numerous miles (years) down stream.
I loved Connections too ! James made me think about how and why things happened.
@@nilo70 Yep. But those Polyester bell-bottomed pant-suits! Can't be excised from memory ...
I've you've the chance, Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed" is also brilliantly done.
4:16 WOW ! You know the artist was being generous with the resemblance.
I thought exactly that. We’re seeing the “airbrushed” version!
It's amazing how many seemingly small things are tied to the more well known pieces of history.
That’s the magic 🙂
Like the Boer War and the taking of the gold fields in the Transvaal, followed by the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank?
Cecil John Rhodes, financed by NM Rothschild, leading to his own country, Rhodesia.
What's interesting is that the Spanish Hapsburgs were so interbred and fugly that they all looked alike. When Charles II picture came up my first thought was, "Not sure which one but definitely a Hapsburg!"
How could such inbred people rule?
The war of jenkin's ear is one of the few things I actually remember from my school history. I thought "How absurd!".
Lol brilliant! Just an excuse for a warlike nation! Yes us! But that’s cool! We were also a great trading nation!
Wasn't there a war over a bucket?
Greece and Bulgaria had a war over a stray dog.
@david edbrooke-coffin Almost ! One side ran off with it :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
@@pickeljarsforhillary102 hadn't heard that one! Thanks
When I saw the word 'pirates' in the tagline, I knew this was gonna be a fun episode. And it didn't disappoint!
That slide into Mount Vernon was masterful. Thank you.
Walpole: Master Jenkins, I heard you lost your ear.
Jenkens: What?
This is some next level wordsmithing!
The distinction between pirates and privateers is reminiscent of that between ninja and samurai.
More like the difference between criminal and politician.
@@lightweight1974 But you repeat yourself. ;-)
An interesting point.
the alliteration was flying furiously in explaining eradication of an ear..... well done H.G. I thought the "pickled" ear had been presented in Parliment though the arguments for war from the curled cartilege fell on deaf................ well, you know.
Anything with Pirates is great, one of the most popular rides at Disneyland is "Pirates Of The Caribbean" Thanks History Guy for all your time and hard work. All your viewers appreciate it.....
I enjoyed the surprise ending; the Mount Vernon connection.
Excellently told, thank you. A loaf is after all just a Conglomeration of many parts and only you can find all the bread crumbs. That sounded better in my head...
Never disappointed with The History Guy! Every episode reminds me this is THE best channel on YT. Well done sir!
Ah HG, you are a true artist with language.
I was familiar with the martial amputation of Jenkin's Ear, and the war that ensued, but have never heard it told in such an informative nor entertaining fashion
Laurence Washington's CO, Adm. Edw. Vernon, was known as "Old Grog" because of the wool-and-silk cloak he wore; the fabric was known as "grogram." He is infamous in the Royal Navy for cutting the men's daily rum ration with water, to make "grog," supposedly to cut down on drunken brawls. The noonday tradition of serving grog only ended in 1970.
April 9th 1731, 290 years ago today. 2:58
I almost want to rewatch just to count the alliterations for cutting off an ear.
Don't turn it into a drinking game
If might pickle more then an 👂
@@gmanbo A liquored liver?
Fascinating how various events weave together! And yes, all good stories do involve pirates!
Gotta love how it all ties together
Fascinating, as usual. Always wondered where “Mount Vernon” got its name.
Love the alliterations.
Traumatic Auriculectomy , the name of my next metal band. Thanks, THG!
I was thinking of Vomit Launch for mine, then someone told it's already been taken. Sigh.
@@bretthess6376 Change vomit to comet and make launch launcher: Comet Launcher, or Comet Launcher Command.
@@leepeel7129 It's a thought, but it lacks that certain air of aggressive vulgarity that characterizes Punk. Maybe Wombat Offal...
@@bretthess6376 Hand-to-hand Wombat
@@leepeel7129 There's a thought.
Operation Musketeer, Suez 1956. The last casualty taken by British forces was a tank commander called Sgt. Jacknik, who was struck by a bullet in his ear. For there on, the conflict became known as The War of Jackniks Ear. Because history deserves a good pun.
I live 20 minutes from Mount Vernon and had never known where the name came from. Really appreciate your teams work
Thank you for another great video! That was a real "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" in history!
Pirates and privateers; wars causing wars causing wars; "May you live in interesting times" (An ancient Chinese curse)
...and of course Admiral Sir Edward Vernon - known by the nickname "Old Grog" because of his grogram cloak - ordered that his crews be issued a ration of diluted rum to make the foetid water on board ships more drinkable and so gave the world grog.
I love the smirk on your face right at the end, as you tie up those last few strings and slap a proud bow on top! Marvelous. Well thought out, and brilliantly executed. That’s why your channel is the best at historical tales, and biographies. You put in the work, you do your research and go far and beyond the topic in order to tie it in to the rest of our history and then present it in a way that is thoughtful and entertaining to the point that you forget that it’s educational, but you remember a great story. Thank you so much for the work that you and your wife put into these videos.
Privateers, or Private Ears. You decide. *Goes back to feeding the parrot*
Friends! History Guy fans! Lend me your ears!
So sorry, my Rear is my own affair.
You can have them back, later...
That was awesome 🤣🤣🤣
(Gets pelted with detached ears) "That's disgusting"
Shouldn't that list invoice three things? "Friends! Welshmen! History Guy fans!" or something like that?
I once read in the Time-Life Seafarers volume entitled "The Ocean Liners" the the Queen Mary while crossing the Atlantis as a Troop Ship was hit broadside by a rogue wave. She nearly capsized with 3,000 troops on board. She tipped over, beyond the point of no return, where her funnels were just feet away from the water. This would make a great topic for one of your episodes.
Well you certainly gave this tale a good hearing. Any story that is told as well as this deserves to be remembered.
Please consider developing an episode about the White Rajahs of Sarawak. Pirates, headhunters and possibly, dare I say, cannibals, are part of the story. The Brooke dynasty in Sarawak is an interesting tale. Thanks you for your efforts.
While I'm glad Blinkist is your sponsor, and I'm also happy you find it useful. However, when a friend showed it to me I found the few books I've saw on it as being little more than a copy of the contents page and carried less content than the 'Notes' books of similar books.
This was perhaps the closest HG narrative yet to the old PBS series "Connections" from James Burke. The program would run through various disparate narratives of inventions, scientific advances and even cultural developments, and by the end of an episode demonstrate how they were all intertwined. Tying together a severed ear, mercantilism, pirates and George Washington was masterful indeed. Always a pleasure to watch these!
If one has "ears to hear" they will listen 2 history guy
All the awesome, amazing alliteration
How horridly humdrum, Howard.
Whenever the history of Europe is mentioned, it is always a great, colossal mess, but somehow, it seems to come back to something familiar. Thanks, HG.
The prolific pursuit of alliteration in this titillating tale of piracy was greatly gratifying.
'If you enjoyed this episode please click the thumbs up', I don't think there has ever been an episode that I didn't think deserved a thumbs up. Love your work.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper.
The bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?"
And the pirate says: "AAAARRRRRRGH, It's driving me Nuts."
Badda BOOM
Don't all good jokes start with pirates?
Lmao. That's a good one. Remember that from My Name is Earl.
Same pirate walks into the bar the next night, this time with a paper towel on his head.
Bartender asks. What’s with the paper towel.
Pirate says : arrrrgh. They put a bounty on me head.
Ok, 😂😂😂😂😂👍
Privateering = Pirate that gave the king a cut of what he stole in order to not get his head cut off when he went home.
Terrific tale of tempestuous times told well with fine vocal timbre even though the teller's pitches are more tenor in tone! Good vid. Keep at it!
The air quotes at 11:50 were particularly poignant. I'm imagining now a swarthy pirate captain using just such hand signs while regaling his admirers over a stiff grog or bumbo...with a captured ear as the centerpiece for effect.😲
But he should have used double quotation marks. A pirate's hook can only show one.
History Guy: not only the master of history but the master of alliteration. :) I'm a big fan of them, as it makes the words more memorable. And it often adds a chuckle. You had many memorable ones in this episode! :-)
I had no idea this occurred. Thank you history dude. Your the best.
Too much fun! Thanks, Lance.
Does not even comment on Cartagena. 190 ship armada huge failure, and Blas de Lezo heroic defense, not a word of the largest armada to that day being humilliated.
Anglo saxon history at its best
I need to put in a plug for an awesome work of history and literature: "Marlborough: His Life and Times" by Winston Churchill. Marlboro may be one of the greatest Generals you've never heard of. He lead the Allies against the French in the War of the Spanish Succession. Its the best history/biography I've ever read. Its a big commitment -- 4 volumes. But its worth it. Stay away from abridged editions. Also, it helps to have knowledge of English history from around the time of the Stewart Restoration. Churchill's audience was of course his countrymen and the book assumes basic knowledge or various people and events of the time. So a read of Churchill's "A History of the English Speaking People" is a good primer.
Great Little known History, and it about pirates. Well done History Guy!
I like the Pirate Bow tie!
Admiral Vernon's 1741 failed siege of Cartagena is as well "History, that deserves to be remembered." Hint. Hint.
Yes, I did leave plenty of room to discuss the actual events of the War of Jenkins' Ear
Pirates! I just found out that an 8th great grandfather had been captaining a ship from Barbados to Boston in 1717 when his ship was captured by pirates.
Jenkins only reads the Gentleman's Magazines for the articles. 😎
Curious hardly much thought was given to the siege and battle of Cartegena. Easily the most important episode of the war.
I know that the pirate talk is impressove. I actually had no idea this war included so much pirate on pirate action... But you left out Blas the Lezo, the main Spabish character of this war: he eas missing an eye, an arm and a leg. People called him Medio-hombre (Half-man)
This is an excellent example of what I didn't learn in public school. Eagerly awaiting your next video.
One of my favorite books was about a man named leTourneau, who invented large construction equipment. There were a few twists in his life too.
That was an ear full, I love these stories, no one can beat THG when it comes to narration, humor and detail .
Great bow tie!
Great video. I loved the alliterations! ''Atrocious act', etc., etc.
Actually paid attention to this story in school for some reason!
So much amazing alliteration! Well done!
What tangled webs we weave... loved this episode!
Bravo for going above and beyond with the alliteration and turns of phrase in this video.
A small inaccuracy, in 5:31 & 5:53, that's not Phillip Duke of Anjou but King Phillip IV father of Charles II the Bewitched. The "bewitched" translation is more exact than "mad". It was translated from the original Spanish epithet: "embrujado" as it was believed he was under a spell for his physical misfortunes.
My husband, who enjoyed going to Mt. Vernon, and who died back in Feb., would have enjoyed knowing how Mt. Vernon came to be named so. He would have laughed at these last few minutes of history that deserved to be remembered.
Excellent story telling and a great closing anecdote about L. Wash and G.Wash and Mt. Vernon. Thank you.
Way MUCH better than the History Channel, the History Guy😁😁👍👍
Great history, little we know sometimes. Thanks
"so ugly he scared his own wife"....HA!..been there , done that
My deepest sympathies.
Lol 😆
Nice 😆
LMAO!
Vice versa here
Fascinating as usual.
Most entertaining, however, were the plethora of creative appellations you were able to conjure for that important sensory member and it's unfortunate avulsion!
For me, The History Guy fills the void left when Paul Harvey died. Reminds me of "The Rest of the Story".
Rest in peace Prince Philip
All of Liddell Hart's books are great. They cover wars & and their causes very. well.
this may be the best intro you have ever had....
WOW..what a convoluted tale..empires,nation states,politicts,trade and corrupt politicians...Pirates,Privateers an Buccaneers..Oh my !!! And 12° of separation.
The wrap up tying in Washington was AWESOME!
Yes! I'm fairly sure this is a coincidence, but you covered a topic I suggested in an email! Now my husband believes me that I didn't make this up. Lol
I have a million and one other suggestions you may or may not have covered or be interested in covering. My favorite historical figure Sir Richard Burton (not the actor), another great explorer Pedro Teixeira, a few French royals Catherine de Medici and Henry of Navarre, and because I love my home and it's quirky past... Cyrus Teed, and the Koreshan Unity "New Jerusalem"
Good grief man. Thank you so much for following these almost lost threads.
If they fought over Jenkins Ear, imagine if they cut something else off ....
they start wars over the littlest thing.
You have so many different high quality intros!
A very convoluted episode in history summed up in fewer than 15 minutes. Brilliant.
This period including the War of the Spanish Succession is easily one of the most convoluted in European history. It shows that back even then how closely tied and therefore small Europe was and everything was interconnected, and we are still arguing amongst ourselves even now but woe betide anyone from outside who tries to interfere.
I am a direct descendant of Edward Fuller who was second in command (colonist) of a British force which came down from New England during the War of Jenkins Ear to kick the Spanish out of Beaufort, North Carolina, a part of the war I never hear about. Edward loved the area so much, he decided to stay. I only knew of this war through family history in which it was called the 'war of Jenkins Era' due to the multi-generational game of telephone. After all, who would name a war after an ear?!
The biggest pirate or really, privateer, was the Dutch guy Piet Heyn, he actually stole a complete silver fleet of the Spanish. The Spanish produced silver in South America and once a year it was shipped to Spain with a heavy armed fleet. Well, not in 1628. The whole fleet was taken in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas and all the treasure taken to Holland, unloaded in Hellevoetsluis. It took 6 days to unload.
The worth of that is estimated at 100.000.000.000 Euro (119.000.000.000 $) if you look at what it would have paid for at the time.
This event is still celebrated in the Netherlands, saving accounts for kids are called Zilvervloot (silver fleet).
Now there is History worth to be remembered
Aloha History Guy, Gale & son, Deaf as I'm, I had an earful of an tail. As always, yes a good part of History. Mahalo !
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