British Guy Reacts To The American Revolution

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  • Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
  • This is my reaction to the American Revolution by Oversimplified.
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  • @theHardyMonster1984
    @theHardyMonster1984 Год назад +17

    British textbooks: 1775 - 1783 The Forgotten Years

  • @2WarriorJay8
    @2WarriorJay8 Год назад +92

    Lmao every British person who watches this takes a dig at the French

    • @BritishGuy22
      @BritishGuy22  Год назад +31

      We just can't help ourselves haha

    • @marksmith4892
      @marksmith4892 Год назад +9

      @@BritishGuy22 at timestamp 2:17, did you notice how those militia troops were called Minute Men? Brits often wonder why our intercontinental ballistic nukes are called Minutemen III. This is the origin of the name. Notwithstanding the fact that the minute men were troops organized to fight the British, the name in the modern context is not intended as anti-British sentiment but rather as a historical reference that means "at the ready" or "vigilant" or "available at a moment's notice" since in a nuke war seconds count. That's why the Cuban Missile Crisis was such a big deal during the Cold War with Russia -- proximity of the missiles to the American homeland, i.e., time before the missiles would reach our borders.

    • @ALJ9000
      @ALJ9000 Год назад

      As the saying goes, “Old habits die hard.”

    • @3506Dodge
      @3506Dodge 5 месяцев назад

      Anti-French sentiment is one of the few things that unites Brits today.

  • @trevor3013
    @trevor3013 Год назад +11

    This is why Americans drink coffee. After the revolution it became a principle to avoid tea and coffee became popular. Today people drink tea in the states but it's nowhere near as popular as coffee. Old habits.

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil Год назад +37

    Can you imagine Americans running out of ammo in 2022?
    How times change.

    • @yashar6595
      @yashar6595 Год назад +3

      People don't understand that is where the whole obsession with guns came from, what the video doesnt go over is how the British before the war knew something was coming and began to confiscate all weapons the colonists owned, they also kicked people out of their own personal property to house British soldiers, and British soldiers also assaulted many colonists (all of those can be looked up) so when drafting the Bill of Rights the right to own a gun was considered something necessary to prevent a government like the British King from ever happening again, they had no idea it would lead to assault weapons, once the US became a nation they had no federal police nor Federal protection, its citizens had to defend themselves for roughly the next 100 years, thats why the mentality exists

    • @kayden2119
      @kayden2119 Год назад

      @@yashar6595 times change

    • @feralvulcan7955
      @feralvulcan7955 Год назад +2

      ​@kayden2119 do they?

  • @maryadams3173
    @maryadams3173 Год назад +14

    I am a Retired Elementary School Teacher( Primary School) I wish we had this videonwhen I was teaching 1st and 2nd grades(ages 6-7). My students would have loved it.

    • @jamesk5541
      @jamesk5541 Год назад

      Except who teaches 6-7 yr olds history

  • @arakuss1
    @arakuss1 Год назад +4

    When I was in high school in American History class we were taught about the magna carta and the English Civil War. In part because it was related to the American Revolutionary War.

  • @pamforrester844
    @pamforrester844 Год назад +14

    Well look what popped up on my feed, it's oversimplified! Had to subscribe! Can't wait for part two and maybe more oversimplified? Thanks for the reaction and commentary

    • @BritishGuy22
      @BritishGuy22  Год назад +5

      I think I definitely need to check out more oversimplified, their content is so well animated and funny whilst being actually educational!

  • @RRaquello
    @RRaquello Год назад +9

    It's understandable that they don't teach much about this in British schools, since they have so many other wars, and it's treated as a small footnote in British history, but I think it really is kind of a big deal, losing a whole continent. But it turned British attention in other directions, like to India, Africa and Australia and they ended up taking over those places instead. I don't know if that's good or bad. In the short term it made them rich, but in the long term it gave them two World Wars.

    • @itsfrxst3904
      @itsfrxst3904 6 месяцев назад

      Never thought about it like that but it makes sense

  • @robwalsh9843
    @robwalsh9843 Год назад +4

    As an American, I typically view our revolution as an extension of English civil wars.
    In the end, British troops were battling their own people. Same with 1812. Sad, but not unheard of in the Old Country even before North America was discovered.

  • @hanssolo8795
    @hanssolo8795 Год назад +6

    You should look at there videos on the American civil war.Also the history of the making of the star spangled banner

  • @jenniferboht7240
    @jenniferboht7240 Год назад

    We absolutely learned about this. My high school was the Minuteman.

  • @glad777
    @glad777 Год назад

    Most people of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish descent live in the US and Canada. Not the UK or Ireland.

  • @kimberlys8422
    @kimberlys8422 Год назад

    I know full well AMERIGO Vespucci was the first European documented to discover the Americas; Columbus thought he'd sailed to India and thus the natives are called American Indians.
    Ponce de Leon (Espana) was the first to plant a flag on my hometown of Pensacola FL.

  • @mrmadness2699
    @mrmadness2699 Год назад

  • @annep.1905
    @annep.1905 Год назад +1

    Jefferson tried to liberate his slaves. It wasn't that easy. Watch the Thomas Sowell channel for more information on that score.

    • @sld1776
      @sld1776 Год назад

      He kept spending money renovating Mount Vernon. Only freed his children, his de facto wife, and two of her relatives.

    • @annep.1905
      @annep.1905 Год назад

      @@sld1776 His estate was in debt. He inherited it along with a massive amount of debt. He did at least try to free his slaves, which is more than can be said of many slaveholders. And the other founders who owned slaves were more successful in their efforts to free their slaves. Many never owned slaves at all.

    • @LordUnruly
      @LordUnruly Год назад

      Imagine poor whites being green with envy, “Look at Jefferson, 🙄 he doesn’t even beat his niggers. I heard he doesn’t make them work but 2 hours a day and the rest of the time they’re all out Lolly gagging and having fun. SMH.” His stand on slavery was clear. The only reason he couldn’t free all of his slaves because of fear what English sympathizers who still wanted to depend on England what do, and the other reason was there was no where for them to go at the time. England sent those captured Africans to them. They didn’t go to Africa and steal them. None of the founding fathers did. Our education system is screwed up because of the lies the racist white peoples who were poor envied the rich that they wanted someone else to be in their position too.

  • @lorettascurato2692
    @lorettascurato2692 Год назад +2

    British history is so rich and convoluted, that the American colonies are probably just a footnote there. So much else to learn. For us, it’s of primary importance as our nation began. 😊🇺🇸. Oversimplified is fun!

  • @caffexd
    @caffexd Год назад +1

    Oh hey oversimplified content, I'm sure you'd like to see more of his content!
    Great video

  • @Project_1900s
    @Project_1900s Год назад

    Just came across a channel name British Guy, life be good now 👌

  • @brookehickson1968
    @brookehickson1968 Год назад

    Weird I was taught that "the shot heard round the world" was the Boston massacre

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil Год назад +1

    Love OS.

    • @BritishGuy22
      @BritishGuy22  Год назад +2

      I'm new to it but my first impression of their channel is that it's amazing!

  • @gmunden1
    @gmunden1 Год назад

    Watch "The Crossing" starring Jeff Daniels.

  • @doylebrockman8225
    @doylebrockman8225 Год назад +1

    Enjoyable content.

  • @josephharrison5639
    @josephharrison5639 Год назад

    After part two of this maybe try 8 things you didn’t know about nascar by slapshoes

  • @harrisvolheim2015
    @harrisvolheim2015 Год назад

    Alanna vs Tennessee college highlights last Saturday by the channel Wheelz

  • @ShaunGuth
    @ShaunGuth Год назад

    Hey this was fun to watch :D

  • @susanstein6604
    @susanstein6604 9 месяцев назад

    And that’s why Americans drink coffee.

  • @kristin4334
    @kristin4334 Месяц назад

    Have you ever heard of the Irish potato famine?

  • @kristin4334
    @kristin4334 Месяц назад

    Do you learn about how bad you, well England, treated the Irish when they could have helped starving Irish farmers?

  • @tereseshaw7650
    @tereseshaw7650 2 месяца назад

    WHY don't you know? Are British schools that bad?

  • @HistorysRaven
    @HistorysRaven Год назад

    I love OS, but whoo boy this hurts to just see how simplified this is to the point that we don't actually see what's going on in the NA colonies between the 1740s and Boston. To understand this we really need to understand that the way the NA colonists viewed themselves was very different from how the King and Parliament viewed the colonists. And by implying the Revolution was only the war just hurts. The Revolution was a revolution of ideas that began in the 1740s.
    Note on the "creation of the United States" being July 2/4: Not in the way we think. The early United States under the Articles of Confederation can be better thought of as an early European Union with a defensive pact written in. The federal government couldn't actually do anything to the point when they asked for taxes to fight the war, the states could tell them to "Bug off" and the federal government couldn't do anything about it. And even when the Constitution was ratified in 1787, we still didn't have the same view of the United States we do now. The way the US was referred to was "these United States", with the emphasis on the individual states rather than the country as a whole. It's not until after the Civil War that "these United States" is changed to "the United States" and the US is seen as a singular country.

  • @elizabethgregg9560
    @elizabethgregg9560 Год назад

    Oversimplified is a complete joke. To tell that entire NOT simplified “history” and never mentioned once the main issue that started the revolution: no taxation without representation!

  • @LordUnruly
    @LordUnruly Год назад

    We won cause we have black people. Period. Let’s put a bunch of Larry Byrds against a bunch of MJs why would we lose? Ever.

  • @conamer6738
    @conamer6738 Год назад

    This is erroneous. If you look ate the actual history Columbus had great respect for the locals except the locally who liked to eat other locals.

    • @HistorysRaven
      @HistorysRaven Год назад

      That's not even kind of true. Columbus was removed as governor because of his hatred and cruelty towards the native population as a whole. He was too racist and cruel for even the famously xenophobic Spanish.