The first thing that pops in your mind when you think of a USS carrier: The USS Enterprise CV-6. And the idea that the grey ghost lives on in her CVN-65 and CVN-80 self according to some of her vets.
Everyone in Europe and Northern Africa had treaties and some type of gentleman agreement. The US being a new nation no one respected did the screw the rules you $%@(@%$ with our citizens and ships your going to suffer.
We'd have the opportunity to feel patriotic more often if we weren't so good at making everyone else feel a lot less patriotic (and alive) when we do so. Nobody's been tryna fuck around with us and find out for a minute 😂
People don't know how deeply the Barbary Pirates were involved in slavery. They took the crews of every ship they captured, beat them down, and sold them into slavery. This region is still deeply involved in slavery, with more people currently enslaved than were ever sent to any North American colony or the United States.
Shoutout to Morocco for being the first country to recognize the USA, and for signing a friendship treaty before the Constitution even existed. Everyone always forgets about Morocco, but I don't. You guys are alright.
@@fulcrum2168 I'm assuming they just did a better job of predicting the ass kicking they'd get than the others were and opted for the less painful route.
As a Sailor who served on carriers I loved this take on what exactly happened. I’ve told this story before to my children and I have to say you’re a far better than I. Salute to you my brother.
Folks need to remember that back then, the VP was essentially the guy that got the second highest number of votes for President. So the VP was often not a political ally of the President.
@@James-lt9mhThey changed it because Jefferson became John Adams' VP and the two hated each other(they were friends in the Revolution and would eventually become again but seriously look at the attacks from their surrogates in the 1800 Election. It was vicious) and people realized it probably wouldn't be great to give someone who actively hates the president an incentive for assassination.
@@James-lt9mhimagine how funny it would be for Biden being president and Trump being vice president or Trump being president and Hillary being vice president
diplomatic relations was smart move ( of i understanding is the president wasn't present for terms of morocco/middleast+others negotiations and wasn't ratified by congress action so may not be valid as a signed contract/treaty as both have to happen, parts of why Nancy's trip to Formosa/china's wasn't her job and was way out of line and other like her activity's, yes she can go on vacation but not as a official capacity's on the 🇺🇸 behalf, only as a regular foreign-usa-taxpaying tourist experience ) on both parties, as for the navy yes they have the duty in the usa-costal /western hemisphere/Monroe to rid foreign pirates as well as usa-blessed-privateer's aka taxpayers-usa with authority/license-privateering in the meditran water's and Europe ect no the USA 🇺🇸 navy is out of its treaty's area's outside of a active wartime (or escorting and transportation of the president and his ambassador-needs/peaceful-taking abroad ) ie war of 1812, now usa 🇺🇸 merchants have the right to self defence in international water's and helping from usa-privateer's but not the direct 🇺🇸-navy's ( or 🇺🇸 coastal-gard that is even more restricted to closer saltwater and usa-freshwater way's ) help asking for diplomacy-say uk 🇬🇧 warship's or uk-merchants for escorting is a grey area
What semi competent gun crew, namely the ram rod dude, could be so incompetent. U had one job, rod goes in, rod comes out. Militaries at that time had near children that did this job. I don't understand how someone would just ram the ball down the barrel and NOT remove the ram rod. Beyond incompetent. They didn't train properly on the cannon. That's what u get with cheap mercenary armies.
11:16 all i'm hearing is that Thomas Jefferson was an absolute genius with that play to take out the pirates without congress approval LOL, bro literally sent a tweet to another nation baiting them into attacking first like a modern day twitter troll.
The Moroccan-American Treaty has really paid dividends. From stomping Nazis in WW2 to helping with the recent devastating earthquake in Marrakech. A Moroccan General was visiting Utah during the earthquake while American Soldiers and Marines were in Morocco - crazy enough they were about to start a disaster response exercise that week. Much love for the great people of that country.
Back then they were sane and a tremendous help. Now they offer nothing and stand with terrorists over us. The government there is no longer sane. They were taken over by the radicals and extremists several years ago. There's a travel warning women telling them Morocco doesn't tolerate women who aren't covered up. At least there was after several young girls were raped and murdered while on vacation in Morocco. The government didn't do anything to stop the mentality it was okay to rape and murder them. They encouraged it with strict laws on their own women. It's sad, I had hoped to see Morocco one day after meeting a couple of nice Moroccan gentleman when I was younger. When they elected the new radical government and started enforcing strict brutal shria law... I knew that dream was over. I'm an American woman, I don't let strangers tell me what I must do and I can't be that covered because of asthma. Morocco is no longer a free sane country... I'm smart enough to stay far away. Lol
"millions in defense before a cent in tribute" sounds hard as fack too No surprise that United States today is a nation who's whole power surpasses the whole entirety of europe
@@coreyhelms3019trumps version was more simply worded. "Peace through strength" but "peace was brought by the mouth of our cannons" really sets a vibe too 😂
Id love a focus piece on John Paul Jones, our epic Revolutionary Privateer. He set quite the example for our future naval officers: "Ensign, do you see that boat over there?" "Yes Captian" "I dont want to." "Yes Captain"
John Paul jones was a piece of shit that had numerous mutinies for a reason. Stephen Decatur Jr deserves more respect then he does. He just got lucky and was actually an awful example for officers
John Paul Jones also holds another distinction; he was also an Admerial in the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Ekaterina II, also known as the Great, commissioned him having asked for a Naval Advior from the United States. Our Country has a very very long and very very strange Relationship with the Russians.
It’d definitely become a series of movies a La Fast and Furious… Don’t Touch My Boats Don’t Touch My Boats 2- Tripoli Boogaloo DTMB- Fu€¥ Around DTMB- Find Out DTMB 1812- Madison’s Revenge DTMB- Out of Proportion
It reminds me of the American general who said something to the effect "Please, I am begging you, with tears in my eyes, don't make me kill every last one of you"
The Battle of 3 kings was fought in northern Morocco on 4 August 1578. A Moroccan victory, the battle has been described as "the greatest military disaster the Portuguese ever suffered in the course of their overseas expansion.
@@ayoub8109 all sources are bias. NO matter how well intended you have to decide what info goes on and what doesn't. Hense history gets rewritten as more sources from both sides become available. Even though we are further away in time, we know more about what happened in WWI and WWII than we did 50yrs ago as more and more documentation is found.
Hey Brother, want you to know I have a Christian homeschool family. Well, my love of history and your channel has led to me working in your videos to boost moral when we start our lessons.... I know what the scoffers are saying, "buh, he's a potty mouth" "buh! There has never been a fat electrician teach history...BUH!". Wrong suckers, well not about the swearing, however we must eat the meat and spit out the bones. Lots of love from the North Eastern Washington Colliers ❤. We love you and keep up the good work! My bride love the clips with your bride! Good stuff
I remember learning about the Barbary Wars in my JROTC Marine class in high school and my 1st Sgt. summed it up as "While the rest of the world sat on their ass and watched the pirates, America and her Marines looked at that shit and said 'I want that shit gone' "
Gotta love how even at their inception the Navy is the definition of "I was told to be proportional, one of our boats for your entire navy maths out just fine to us."
I know it's been covered by everyone and their mother, but CV-6 USS Enterprise was one of, if not, the most badass ship in the U.S. Navy. The Japanese believed she was crewed by the damned, because she would return time and time again after taking hits that they assumed would sink her. One of her fighter squadrons was literally called the Grim Reapers. Be kind of neat the see one of your videos about that ship.
It's impressive and speaks to the sheer professionalism, presentation, and showmanship displayed in your videos that I can watch them multiple times and still be completely entertained. Keep up the good work sir.
Better that than suffering the same fate as France and Italy. Not that our plight is any better, what with a nonexistent border and politicians hellbent on rescuing every "refugee" they can find before ever putting a dime towards solving our own poverty and homelessness crisis.
The American military plays a game of "I'm not touching you" with a lot of nations. I'm not saying this excuses belligerent PLA activity (air/naval) in the "South China" Sea. It does not. However, we have gone through some pretty kinetic measures to prevent other nations from getting all up in our hemisphere (the Chinese station in Cuba could be an interesting case study). You think other countries like our military bases? I don't care if they do and I am glad the 'States has not only the technology but the positioning, but I totally understand why some countries don't enjoy having an American unit of "bomb your country" in the same time zone.
The last thing anyone wants to see sitting just outside their national waters is an American carrier strike group complete with a LHD battlegroup. That means that you are one diplomatic fuckup away from getting the whole kitchen sink thrown at you and possibly invaded by America’s deadliest autists.
Brother, I think you mean "Don't fuck with U.S. Navy ships because they have our Corpsmen aboard and the other Marine Corps motto is, 'no one fucks with doc!'"
A story I heard after the War of 1812, at Gibraltar, a squadron of American warships was passing to attack the Barbary Pirates. On shore, a British official asked an American naval officer to identify each of the ships. The officer said, "That's, the USS Macedonian, the USS Guerriere, and the USS Java." The British official said...oh nevermind. Each of those ships the American "named" were British ships very publicly captured by the US Navy during the War of 1812
The Barbary Wars are one of the most forgotten aspects of early American history, but they put the groundworks in for all the extra-congressional powers the president has been allotted. As well as the tactics used by the DoD in said extra-congressional actions. With most early American history you have to put so many different aspects together to understand where we are today, but with The Barbary Wars it is as if the writers got lazy and foreshadowed the hell out of the future.
@@wihamaki well there is the old saying "dont bite off more then you can chew" europe has a well recorded history of doing just that, fighting too many wars to efficiently fight each one, then they label the loses as "not a priority" when in reality they lost battles against smaller armies because they bit off more then they could chew, imagine thinking Great Britain viewed America as "not a priority" thats some serious copium
"The Rainbow Shortcut to a$$ whipping Land" I almost pissed myself laughing so dam hard, I'm also a former U.S. Marine, and the motto "First to go, Last to Know" is so very much true.
@@harveyhams1572 You beat me to it! The only way any Marine LOSES that Title, is if they disgrace themselves and the Corps.! No 'Former Marine.' USMC VETERAN! :-)
@@annnunez7719 Actually, there is. If a Marine disgraces himself/the Corps., but especially if they are Dishonorably Discharged (And it's justified), they lose the Title. At that point, they're considered 'Former Marines.' (In polite company. If they deserved their 'Big Chicken Dinner' (ie 'Bad Conduct Discharge'), then we have many other Titles/Names that are usually applied.)
So Jefferson is the originator of the "wink" understanding. "Potential" aggression. Deliver the "gifts". Yeah, the soldier absolutely understood the assignment.
Pretty insane how a country ascended from infant country on the fringes of the world to world hegemon in roughly 220 years, mostly because countries kept messing with its boats, and it has an irrational attachment to them.
@thatrandomeliteultra1158 I mean, you can be smug all you want, but most of the wars that America got recognition for the growing power it was did start over ships. The Barbary war is a good one for setting foreign policy positions, war of 1812 was the war against Britain and while it wasn't exactly a win, did mean it wasn't just some country you could roll over with no effort. Spanish-American War, and both World Wars where America asserted it was itself a great power by knocking off a European empire (though sick), and the world wars where it proved itself a great power who could tip the scales, then one of only 2 superpowers. In each of these cases, while only one reason for the war (as no war only has one reason), it's significant enough to make it into the textbooks and act as a national rallying cry in each circumstance. Yes, of course, none of these truly address the reasons for the advantages America had, or how it got to the point where it could throw its weight around, but the final point is that it's not meant to be a checklist factors in America's rise, but instead, to be a humorous observation about the consistent through-line in American conflicts. Which, of course, is caused by the fact that America is separated by two oceans from the rest of the global powers.
im in my thirties and love watching these to ... well... learn what i should have been paying attention to in school to learn... back in the 90s and early 2000s in a pretty good school. i was just in my own world half the time.
It also shows that long lasting love/hate/respect relationship between the Marines and the Navy. Kind of like siblings.... "aww shit, you did what? Well, here we go again."
This is officially my new history channel. I found this channel about a year ago and it’s just absolutely amazing. This should all be used in classrooms. I just can’t praise this enough.
As I explained to my wife, at that time, the U.S. Navy armed itself with fast frigates; smaller than the big British ships, but able to sail circles around them. They *then* captained all those frigates with a bunch of "James T. Kirks". And this story was the result. 😄
Weren't they also ridiculously over-gunned for their displacement? I remember reading those frigates could outgun almost anything, but anything that had them outgunned, they could easily outrun.
@@immikeurnot I didn't know about the guns but I can absolutely believe that. Because "'Mericaaaah! Have some LIBERTY, mutha f**kas!" See. We've *always*been like this.😅
This brings backs memories. I originally learned about this while watching the History Channel, when it use to be actually be about history. Then I read up on it. Years later, I had a college history teacher claim he was a Marine officer. He covered the Barbary Wars but he had no idea about the The Marines' Hymn mentioning it. It went south really quick, cause we had an actual Marine in the class who called him out. A few weeks later, he lost his position over falsely claiming military service.
When the USMC sing “from the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli” it’s not just a boast, it’s a *warning*. If you anger the USA, then they will send those crayon munching, grenade flinging, iwo-jima taking aquagrunts to personally get your ass and put you on the news.
The History Instructor for my boot cycle was one of the biggest men I have ever seen and I'm not a small guy. This huge motherfucker would pantomime the action of our history like Katt Williams on stage. I was already a big fan of history but those classes were the best history classes I have ever attended.
FE, You have the power to unite Americans and get us back to our roots. Doesn’t matter what color you are, the only thing that matters is that you know what it is to be a true American and that you love/value the freedom millions before us have fought and died for. Speaking as a 1st generation Mexican American, I thank you sir.
Had to watch this one. I wasn’t disappointed. Learned a lot I didn’t know. Tied up some loose ends on the history of the marines. Fantastic. Thanks for another great one.
That shoplifting analogy is actually excellent. I've always been of the opinion that those who best understand something are the ones that are able to succinctly and accurately teach it.
Rather, it's the ones who understand and are able to simplify who become outstanding teachers. Plenty of people understand just fine but lack the talent to simplify.
Great video. Greek mercenaries represent! Fun fact, we also had our own navy madman like the US had John Paul Jones. His name was Konstantinos Kanaris (active during our war for independence) and besides taking down the ottoman flagship and admiral on board with a fireship, his most crazy exploit was pretty much saying "Im gonna take some fireshships and 2 warships, some flags from foreign countries for cover, sail all the way to Alexandria, Egypt and burn their entire fleet at port. And the mad lad made it into the port without being identified but nature went against him as suddenly the wind changed direction and he was forced to go back and forth until the egyptians took notice and opened fire. Thankfully he managed to escape. He went on to lead the rebel navy to more battles and also served as Prime Minister after the war. Talk about a skilled maniac
I invest in this deep sea freight company and greeks and phillipinos have a huge ocean going presence much greater than i was aware. So much so I actually say to myself that i dont know if there is any better in terms of who is capable of managing global trade vessels. Phillipinos usually run a lot of ships because ships come through the phillipines and its poor there so they want to make money and travel the world so they become a deckhand and work their way up. Theres a lot of phillipino seamen and captains who are very exprienced despite what you might expect in terms of captaining a commercial trade vessel. The greeks I notice more often actually are incredible at actually running the shupping business. There is intense managing decisions and budgeting and there is grouod of disinterested peoole for advising and all these factors at play and i think greece has been experts in this region for longer than usa has existed. So much so I think they do it better than usa and we cant beat them based in global location alone for the specific sector. Usa is one of worlds largest traders making us a trade hub but greece and cyprus are under europe with middle east and india and asia in one side, europe above, africa below and usa across on the left side. So the location is key in their success i believe. Boating is a huge culture there roo with how many islands they have with turkey to the west of greece. Usa is less known for building trade vessels and more known for building battleships destroyers and aircraft carrier that can defend other countries trade vessels we didnt build because our builders are filled with naval vessels. we might not own the ship but we still benefit from the ship coming from far away lands and dropling off goods or picking up. I notice places like soith korea japan, around there, they do a lot of commercial ship building, the ships are sold to people like greece ship owner operators, and then theyl run trade all over thw world from there for usa and india and europe and africa and asia and south america, autrailia you name it. Its impressive hiw the whole globe almost is involved in different key ways. I was so impressed by how buttoned down that region of the world is in terms of the greeks running the business aspect. Greece somewhat keeps an eye on of the larger chunk of an island called cyprus which in itself actually serves sorta as its own island nation but falls ujdee with greece and eu but is also allianced with usa. Thus island has a deep sea freight main sector of its economy and that sector is favored there heavily. Its deep sea freight is its biggest sector. Greece and cyprus essentually act as a global trade hub for the developed world because it sits halfway between india and usa right under europe. Theres all these crazy companies like stealthgas ctrm zim in israel, theyre all based right in that region. Usa had this company named eagle bulk shipping they were the largest suezmax fleet holder in the world and were based in usa on the east coast. They just merged into a company based in both greece and cyprus named star vulk carriers so bow they have a base in usa, meddeteranian, and singapore i think. They have a fleet of some 157ish deep sea freight vessels. Its literally a HUGE company worth 4 billion usd in assets. To me this was so cool because i did like usa having a dog in the fight, but i see our allies and friends ovee in greece and cyprus are just so good at what they do that to me is was good so see eagle join with sblk and extended sblk to have a usa based sector as well and its allowed usa to have skin in the game if clearly one of if not the best commercial trade deepsea frieght global trade companies which ever existed. It makes the dutch east india company look small. It was cool to me because i believed 4 years ago when i was researching these companies that greece and cyprus doing dry bulk and oil tankering very well it woukd almost be betrer if we didnt compete with them but if we as usa actually teamed in their side. So when eagle became 1/3 owners of sblk via a merger that was like trading ohr company for 1/3 partnership in the greatest trade company there is which seems like a great deal for everyone as now this foreign company people were scared of because it wasnt based in usa, actually is now usa. Usa owns sblk. The whole world owns sblk actually. I never eve. Bougjt shares of sblk but i bought shares in ctrm ran by a guy in cyprus also and he did such an incredible job you can see he has worked hard and he put a bunch of the companies profits and is holding over 4 million shares of sblk in ctrm which is what i own. So i inadvertently am oart owner in sblk also. You have costamare doing boxships right in the same region. Its really ao incredible. Ctrm gas a subsidiary company namd toro corp a petroleum products tanker company that spun off from ctrm. Before it spun off it had 8 crude tankers it bougjt for 150 million and one of them was hauking oil out of the mexican gulf into the ports in texas for months on end back and forth. I sais by golly the texans gotta love it 😂 right?!?! Why arent they buying the shares? When ctrm spun off its oil product tanker company it sent it with the 8 tankers. It promptly sold them all every last one for 300 million and doubled its asset account in a very fast manner. As well as it bought 4 smaller LPG tankers from stealthgas. Its such incresible business you can see why the founding fathers in usa were so adament about us being able to trade with the globe and not only just britain. What I love about usa is we have a habit of acting like we are the best at everything. But greek cyprus deep sea commercial freight trade I use as my example of when usa cant beat them we join them. So its not actually a stonewalled stubborn attitude. It was beneficial for sblk to become 1/3 usa because now they have a usa sector their closest sector to these other regions they werent as close to with bases in greece cyprus and singapore alone. Now its this impressive company spanning the globe and its ao critical to not only usa but to sigapore, cyprus greece autrailia europe africa asia... its wild just how big of a deal the ocean trade is. Its the main reason we have a navy. It migjt be a ship made in south korea boigjt by a guy in greece or cyprus or portugal running trade between india europe and usa or south american and north or south america to africa or austrailia etc. There was this huge problem in usa because they said only usa flagged trade ships should be allowed to do trade between usa to usa trade. Like for example florida to texas or california to hawaii. Thats problematic when greece and cyprus do liquified gas tankering dry bulk tankering better and portugal has all the big box ships in costamare. So it almost makes sense for usa to be controlling owner of 1/3 of sblk because then we can say every sblk ship is 1/3 usa so theyre our ships. They just get flagged in panama or majuro or marshall islands because they register the ships where fees and stuff are the cheapest and there isny regulatory bodies that get too hardcore like in communist chima where no matter what you do youre in the wrong like in ussr. Cyprus itself doesnt pay corporate income tax. So a lot of the income not being taxable in sblk will actually grow the 1/3 chunk that is owned by eagle stakeholders at a faster rate compared to if the entire compamy was based in new york for example where the corporate tax rates exist and are also high. So its genius. The earth is 80% water that shows how important it is to us this realm of dominion to the whole world. We all live in these far away lands very different from any other but the water is how my country getsnrid of its excess supply of this and that in ordee to buy someone elses countries excess of this and that. We csn trade and we get what we need and get rid of what we have too much of and we send it to a land where ther eis less and its in demand and its profitable to do it. Global trade was a huge part of usa so much so our shipbuikding is filled with naval vessels way more than commercial trade vessels. Other peoole build the vessels on one side of thw world from us and on the other side of the world is the peopel who run them best and so when the others are so great we shall invest in them or merge together as a team. Usa is so big. India is so big, it only makes sense to have a totally unrelated region somewhere inbetween who handles aspects of the trade we can help with. We do shipping companies from time to time historically but the more i look at greeve and cyprus i realise they have location on water and usa has land off the water. Cyprus and greeve gave almsot no land but theyre is water all over and their businesses often are on the water. No othe region in the world has so many real and solid as rock deep sea frsight businesses that are based there. Its actually only for location and timing. You want guysnin medeteranian because they are up when europe it up and they can catch these other regions on either side as they wake uo and go to sleep. A deeo sea shipping comoany could be based antwhere as its headquarters doesnt gave to follow the ships around you can move the headquater and most the company is floating in water eslewhere still. So its an incredibly global industry unlike any others by far. The phillipines is just as needed for the industry as usa and europe etc. China gas a huge fleet now but i think china is dumb theyd be betrer ifnthey had no ships and let other peoole pay for the ships and they just load them with what rheyre selling and unload them with what theyre buying. Japan and south korea europe and usa can build better ships. If i was buying ships id buy ones made in asian pacific region before china specifically. Mainly south korea. South morea with samsung heavy industries builds ships better than kias by a lot. Ctrm my favorite
I should point out Britain HATED the Barbary pirates. They had plagued our trade routes and even raided southern Britain for slaves , so "allying" in 1812 was hugely unpopular and generally seen as a dick move by everybody. EDIT: video ideas - Teddy Roosevelt or Wyatt Earp
Tombstone's only doctor, Charles Goodfellow, was about 1000000% more interesting than Wyatt Earp. You'll need to lay down for an hour after reading his wikipedia page.
It really is a shame that politics are so petty. The US and UK today make a great team. Imagine if, rather than fighting one another in 1812, we'd fucked the pirates up together. The Barbary Wars woulda been even more legendary than they already were.
Get in!! I genuinely become happy when i see a new Fat Electrician post. I know that a history lesson is about to be delivered in a way that should be used in schools to get kids engaged in this amazing subject. Cheers from over here in the UK. Ive genuinely used your videos as a way to educate my kids. The current family favourite is still Operation Praying Mantis, mainly because of the use of the term proportional. Cheers buddy from one amateur historian to a legend
When a 25 minute video seems to only last like 30 seconds because it just totally captivates you is a testament of its greatness, another one hit out of the park, thank you brother, keep ‘em coming (I would love to hear more about this “potato” incident you touched on!)
More than just telling us great stories, you restore in me a sense of hope and pride in our country. I admit I'm demoralized by the appalling state of this republic, but your tales of courage, guts, balls, and grit remind me of our heroic history and our fight for right. Thank you and keep it up.
@@jsquared1013Bro literally anybody who didn't just run across these terms in 5th grade understands that a Republic s typically understood as a form of Democracy. Here in Florida we have both Direct and Indirect Democray, because we the voters can change out own laws as well as elect representatives to do so. We have indirect Democracy Federally tho. Please never in your life say that again because it shows that you don't even understand basic definitions of government.
Hey, Navy vet here. Just discovered your channel but have already watched a bunch of your videos -- and this particular one, my favorite, I've watched at least 7 times. I've long known the overall story, but you added a lot of details I didn't know before. Great job!! I think a great tale for you to narrate would be the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the results of the terrible miscommunications during it. Looking forward to many more great video stories from you!
there's a reason the Marine corps Hymn starts with From the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country's battles In the air, on land, and sea;
During WW1 until about halfway through WW2 the most powerful Navy in the World was the Royal Navy. The US Navy saw incredible growth during both wars, eventually superseding the Royal Navy, before growing into the behemoth it is today.
@the_fat_electrician Outstanding video. You've got a gift for great storytelling. Question - why isn't Stephen Decatur lauded as much as other American (military) heroes? There are many ever present names on public buildings, schools, streets, etc, but Decatur seems strangely absent. Am I missing something, or am I just wrong?
@@ianmacfarlane1241 He is pretty well known within the US Navy. There have been several ships named after him (currently DDG-73) and one of the "ships" (recruit barracks) at the Navy boot camp, RTC Great Lakes, is also named after him. Naval heroes just generally have less widespread popularity here in the US.
Man thomas jefferson was such an incredible founding father. The different areas he had influence over and how he had so much influence yet wasnt tyrannical. How he helped literally architect usa and wrote the declaration of independance and also defeated state pirate regimes who were messing with our boats. If only he was alive today to sse how much bigger usa is
As a veteran of the US Navy, being in the belly of a carrier, and cooled off by the refreshing Persian Gulf air, I too know the benifits of non stick ball to thigh technology.
Awesome history lesson! Thank you. Glad I stumbled across this. I took numerous US history courses in high school & college. This was NOT covered. The story of the colonial privateers during our war for independence when we had very little navy is also some fascinating history. Maybe do a program on that sometime? Thanks again.
You would think after nearly two hundred and fifty years, people would learn to not mess with America's boats, or really anything that America considers its own. Apparently, some lessons require some additional time to sink in.
Some places have short memories, and a learning disability. Their level of find out is going to be "proportional" to their level of F____ around if they stay their course.......
“You’re going to take a bunch of rebels and fight with them to overthrow a dictator we don’t like and then out their leader in charge? Awesome, we will literally never do this again” lol that sent me
Brits -“Oh just pay the pirates” - U.S of MFing A “Did we not just kicked the f… out of you cuz we did not wanted to pay extra shit?!” We need more history…
@@baronvonslambert You mean the Seven Years War. Thirty Years War was going on around the time the Pilgrims were discovering socialism was stupid. As for the debate about taxes, it was also because Parliament didn't have the authority to level taxes directly against the colonies so they were doing shit like the Stamp Act to get around those laws.
After having grown up in a town named "Decatur" and attended a high school of the same name, it seems pretty shameful that this short video has taught me more about Stephen Decatur and has made me more proud of the name than my public school education ever did. Thanks for sharing all of these stories. You really have a gift!
Sir. We need this made into a movie. I’m 100% serious. This needs to be made into a full length high budget movie. The fact it hasn’t been is ridiculous. This story is absolutely amazing and would make for an incredible movie. Someone in the industry needs to make this happen. And you absolutely need to be directing the whole thing. It doesn’t have to be Hollywood overly dramatic. It’s plenty dramatic and entertaining while remaining completely historical. This needs to happen.
King Alfred in 800AD said: "If you pay the Dane gold, the Dane never goes away". Hence England made the biggest and best navy in the world at the time which is why they sing; "Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!"
@benjaminoechsli1941 they paid tribute to force everyone else to pay tribute, because it hurt everyone else way more than it hurt them. If they wiped them out then everyone else would be able to freely use the shipping g lanes increasing their competition. By letting them exist they put a barrier of entry up. It's kind of like when big corporations push for regulation because it makes it prohibitively expensive to enter the market and it's pennies to them because they already have the scale.
Correction! It was the Dutch that first recognized the US as a sovereign nation in 1776 by saluting the USS Andrew Doria. ‘‘On 16 November 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the American navy ship USS Andrew Doria, with the American Declaration of Independence on board, arrived in St. Eustatius. Its captain fired a salute to the Dutch flag on Fort Oranje and Johannes de Graaff decided to answer the salute with eleven gunshots. And so the United States of America were for the first time recognized as a nation by this salute of eleven guns. In 1939, President Roosevelt presented a plaque to St. Eustatius. Mounted on the flagpole inside the impressively restored Fort Oranje, it reads, "In commemoration of the salute to the flag of the United States fired in this fort on 16 November 1776 by order of Johannes de Graaff, Governor of St. Eustatius in reply to a national gun salute fired by the U.S. Brig-of-war Andrew Doria.(...) Here the sovereignty of the United States was first formally acknowledged to a national vessel by a foreign official’’.
Well Morocco was the first country to do it at an official level. This was just a random officer returning a courtesy- though it still counts and I learned something new today
Well that’s how that fort worked. When you would go there you would do a x gun salute and the fort would respond in x-2 gun salutes. The USA gave a 13 gun salute for the 13 colonies because MURICA
@@kylezdancewicz7346 Only if you were excepted in port and thus the flag under which the ship in question sailed was recognized, acknowledged and respected , that particular country or force would have to have a neuteral or friendly status with the Dutch republic.
Whoa! TFE, great delivery, rapid fire (I'm old and had to put it on 75% speed w/ captions but I'm a subscriber and will start hunting up older posts! Now THAT's a summary of an historic series of events!
You know? This also has an origin to another phrase so popular in US culture: "we do not negotiate with terrorists", since the US decided to not make a deal with the pirates without a war first
@@Arab-1995s Well you see, we classified them as this thing called "freedom fighters". Now you may ask, "what's the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists"? A freedom fighter is someone the US government gives money and weapons to to fight people they don't like. A terrorist is anyone the US government doesn't like.
I had to pause what felt like every ten seconds to just sit back and think to myself, "Dear god, this war really did just lay out every last line for the United States military shenanigans going forward didn't it?" It's like this was the war they decided to write the checklist during.
"From the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country's battles In the air, on land, and sea; First to fight for right and freedom And to keep our honor clean; We are proud to claim the title Of United States Marine."
i love how deservably quickly you became a big youtuber by teaching history in an interesting fashion and also dont go over board with sponsors and such... love the content
Great video TFE! As soon as I read the title I got way too excited. "Oh sh*t, he's going to talk about Decatur and the scuttle of the Philidelphia!!" It's truly an amazing story and not one widely known outside of maritime history and lore. Even Admiral Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy gave praise to the heroism of Decatur, his men and the mission. However Nelson was also uneased by the USS Constitution and the other super frigates built by the US, due to their performance and firepower. Thanks to a Boston shipwright they outclassed every other frigate on the water and he saw them as highly problematic for the Royal Admiralty in the years ahead. It was proven, a justified worry during the war of 1812 when they were blowing bows out, no contest. Also to note (I believe) Stephen Decatur is still the youngest person to ever receive the rank of captain in the US Navy. And when volunteering to lead the mission aboard the intrepid, he is quoted as saying ..."the fewer the number, the greater the glory"
The Constitution outclassed others because of the materials. No other nation had access to the amount of live oak that went into her hull. That is why she was "Old Ironsides" The Nav still maintains a forest of live oak to repair her.
I just want to say, I'm 70 years old and I LOVE your podcasts. I'm learning more about history watching your videos than I ever did in school. If I would have had a Teacher like you I would have looked forward to going to History class everyday!! lol You're awesome! Thanks so much!!💯
My favorite RUclips channel of all time. My grandson is nine years old and asks me to play your episodes every time he's with me. Thank you for making our countries history interesting again and making us proud to be American.
Honestly I think the Sultan of Morocco was probably impressed that Jefferson just walked in there with the Aggressive Negotiating mindset, as well as the reasoning mentioned in the video, and then proceeded to sign the treaty of Peace and Friendship. A few years later he was probably glad he did.
"You know whats way better than being on the world superpowers bad side? Having a friendship treaty and chillaxin amirite"-thomas "iron testicles" jefferson
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Well, it wasn't a superpower at the time. Everybody else thought it would collapse under its own weight in a few years, let alone rival the European powers.
Morocco benefited from having a ruler that wasn't obsessed with his mirror. I'm willing to bet the ruler of Morocco simply thought trade with the US, which even then was known to be rich in natural resources, was more profitable than a fight. Morocco was very lucky to have an intelligent ruler.
@@katnerd-Glen I like how you put that first bit! Wish more leaders would be like that these days. Your argument is also sound. I hadn’t thought about it like that. A wise Sultan indeed.
Here again to recommend Col. John Stapp. His work on deceleration G-forces and its effect on the human body is insane. The guy survived the highest G-forces any human being has ever experienced on rocket sleds, also becoming the fastest man on the planet in the process. Some of his quotes are insane. He equated a feeling in his eyes during the test to the feeling of having a molar pulled without anesthetic, then later was quoted saying that they "hadnt reached the human limit" with these tests.
I'm familiar with Stapp. I live within an hour's drive of the Space Museum at Alamogordo and they feature one of his rocket sleds on the outside grounds.
i'm loving how your wife is making more appearances cuz it just ups the comedy during the ad reads and makes me actually wanna watch them. other channels need to take a page out of your book for their own ad reads
Public schools should use these videos in their so called "History" class. He would at the very least, get kids interested in our history and maybe even make the students feel something positive about OUR country I'm sure he would also make State level history for a fee similar to the video he made on the Texas Battleship
My 8th grade history teacher had sparked my love for history and it’s awesome stories and lessons due to a similar cadence to yours. History and culture in almost any realm or era has plenty of “fun” stories, it just takes a skilled delivery to make it intoxicating for others to enjoy as well! Thanks for the episode
I appreciate you going into specific battles and individuals! Unlike so many painfully short summery videos on the topic. Truly an Epic American moment.
sorry its late. Keep sending me topics for videos!
LEO MAJOR I SWEAR TO GOD (please my man)
The first thing that pops in your mind when you
think of a USS carrier: The USS Enterprise
CV-6. And the idea that the grey ghost lives on
in her CVN-65 and CVN-80 self according to
some of her vets.
Private John "Barney" Hines
@@Johndoe-jdYes, please
Also, that time we created a gun to counter act body armor. But we ended up with a hyper advanced optic.
I love how America’s military basically looked at the hundreds of years of war and power held by empires and said, “amateurs”.
WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK‽
"AMATEURS!"
"Hold my grog"
Everyone in Europe and Northern Africa had treaties and some type of gentleman agreement. The US being a new nation no one respected did the screw the rules you $%@(@%$ with our citizens and ships your going to suffer.
When the rulers hold a monopoly on violence, speak to them in terms they understand
"Fine, I'll do it myself."
I love how early on in our history we addressed terroristic acts “proportionally “.
Wish we could get back to that proportionality
@@Patriot_dad Trust me, we all have the personality of an A-10 warthog, just need that spark
I mean, we knew what we were/are about. We just y'know😂
Well, we did come up with the Monroe Doctrine next. That's generally considered the ballsiest thing we ever did.
@@shadowkiller9033no the 22 from HLC
Can I say that this channel has made me feel more patriotic than anything America has done in years?
Mate, TFE is making me feel patriotic and I'm not American 😂
Agreed
Welcome brothers
We'd have the opportunity to feel patriotic more often if we weren't so good at making everyone else feel a lot less patriotic (and alive) when we do so. Nobody's been tryna fuck around with us and find out for a minute 😂
@@alexbarrett9856 I mean, there is Iran
"Millions in defense before a cent in tribute" is one of the most American things I have ever heard.
@@Jackal19x do you like having freedom? Without our military. This country will be part of China or Russia or North Korea
All we ever do is pay tribute to other countries
@@Recipe_For_Disaster_TV do you like your freedom
5 cheeseburgers and a megacoke sounds more like it
@@Recipe_For_Disaster_TV you dont know anything lmao
People don't know how deeply the Barbary Pirates were involved in slavery. They took the crews of every ship they captured, beat them down, and sold them into slavery. This region is still deeply involved in slavery, with more people currently enslaved than were ever sent to any North American colony or the United States.
5:38 the religion of peace
Thats islam for you
sounds like North Africa needs some FREEDOM. Wonder how much oil they got, we could totally set up an exchange.
I still can't unsee what they do to goats.
@@OvelNickthose poor fucking goats.
Shoutout to Morocco for being the first country to recognize the USA, and for signing a friendship treaty before the Constitution even existed. Everyone always forgets about Morocco, but I don't. You guys are alright.
Imagine that. Being nice saved them from the fate of the other 3 countries.
Ever know why they did that? I don't its as nice as you make it
@@fulcrum2168Not particularly.
Fuckin poge
@@fulcrum2168 I'm assuming they just did a better job of predicting the ass kicking they'd get than the others were and opted for the less painful route.
As a Sailor who served on carriers I loved this take on what exactly happened. I’ve told this story before to my children and I have to say you’re a far better than I. Salute to you my brother.
Folks need to remember that back then, the VP was essentially the guy that got the second highest number of votes for President. So the VP was often not a political ally of the President.
Prob should have kept that rule..
For sure. Compromise is how shit gets done and that would help. @@James-lt9mh
@@James-lt9mhThey changed it because Jefferson became John Adams' VP and the two hated each other(they were friends in the Revolution and would eventually become again but seriously look at the attacks from their surrogates in the 1800 Election. It was vicious) and people realized it probably wouldn't be great to give someone who actively hates the president an incentive for assassination.
@@James-lt9mhimagine how funny it would be for Biden being president and Trump being vice president or Trump being president and Hillary being vice president
@@JustinRay-jt1ud Oh lord, the bickering and the memes would've been hilarious to watch.
I love that Morroco was literally an example of, "I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole" and signed a treaty of friendship with America
diplomatic relations was smart move ( of i understanding is the president wasn't present for terms of morocco/middleast+others negotiations and wasn't ratified by congress action so may not be valid as a signed contract/treaty as both have to happen, parts of why Nancy's trip to Formosa/china's wasn't her job and was way out of line and other like her activity's, yes she can go on vacation but not as a official capacity's on the 🇺🇸 behalf, only as a regular foreign-usa-taxpaying tourist experience ) on both parties, as for the navy yes they have the duty in the usa-costal /western hemisphere/Monroe to rid foreign pirates as well as usa-blessed-privateer's aka taxpayers-usa with authority/license-privateering
in the meditran water's and Europe ect no the USA 🇺🇸 navy is out of its treaty's area's outside of a active wartime (or escorting and transportation of the president and his ambassador-needs/peaceful-taking abroad ) ie war of 1812, now usa 🇺🇸 merchants have the right to self defence in international water's and helping from usa-privateer's but not the direct 🇺🇸-navy's ( or 🇺🇸 coastal-gard that is even more restricted to closer saltwater and usa-freshwater way's ) help asking for diplomacy-say uk 🇬🇧 warship's or uk-merchants for escorting is a grey area
@@richardprice5978me no read that, you write it smaller ye ?
Their history is one of shrewd diplomacy decisions.
@@richardprice5978 Any luck improving your AI chatbot yet?
I feel kinda bad we don't have a holiday for them tbh.
We should push for a federal "Thanks for leaving the boats alone" day or something.
Accidentally shooting our own ram rod at the enemy before saying “fuck it” and charging is so violently American I love it
It also sounds like something Marines would do.
Fuck it. CHARGE!
@@timesthree5757 agreed. I guess they were high on crayons.
@@MayaWaddington-x7n Dammit, was just gonna say, I guess there were no crayons to chew on so they had to find something to do.
What semi competent gun crew, namely the ram rod dude, could be so incompetent. U had one job, rod goes in, rod comes out. Militaries at that time had near children that did this job. I don't understand how someone would just ram the ball down the barrel and NOT remove the ram rod. Beyond incompetent. They didn't train properly on the cannon. That's what u get with cheap mercenary armies.
11:16 all i'm hearing is that Thomas Jefferson was an absolute genius with that play to take out the pirates without congress approval LOL, bro literally sent a tweet to another nation baiting them into attacking first like a modern day twitter troll.
The Moroccan-American Treaty has really paid dividends. From stomping Nazis in WW2 to helping with the recent devastating earthquake in Marrakech. A Moroccan General was visiting Utah during the earthquake while American Soldiers and Marines were in Morocco - crazy enough they were about to start a disaster response exercise that week. Much love for the great people of that country.
Lottery winning decision
I bet if NATO somehow dissolved Morocco would still stay with the USA's side
Back then they were sane and a tremendous help. Now they offer nothing and stand with terrorists over us. The government there is no longer sane. They were taken over by the radicals and extremists several years ago. There's a travel warning women telling them Morocco doesn't tolerate women who aren't covered up. At least there was after several young girls were raped and murdered while on vacation in Morocco. The government didn't do anything to stop the mentality it was okay to rape and murder them. They encouraged it with strict laws on their own women.
It's sad, I had hoped to see Morocco one day after meeting a couple of nice Moroccan gentleman when I was younger. When they elected the new radical government and started enforcing strict brutal shria law... I knew that dream was over. I'm an American woman, I don't let strangers tell me what I must do and I can't be that covered because of asthma. Morocco is no longer a free sane country... I'm smart enough to stay far away. Lol
@@the_fat_electrician Not so much. The American Empire thankfully is in fast decline making your empire one of the shortest in history.
@@baibac6065do you enjoy being annoying?
"...and we're not gonna have an entire branch of Special Forces that specalizes in it." I couldn't say it with a straight face either.
Right lol
“Peace was achieved through the mouth of our cannons” is a hard ass line.
Thats kinda a american motto aint it? Teddy said it best. Speak softly but carry a big stick. Plato o ploma my friend lol
Peace through superior firepower?
Peace through the expediture of ammunition?
Give us your gold or we will give you our steel.
"millions in defense before a cent in tribute" sounds hard as fack too
No surprise that United States today is a nation who's whole power surpasses the whole entirety of europe
@@coreyhelms3019trumps version was more simply worded. "Peace through strength" but "peace was brought by the mouth of our cannons" really sets a vibe too 😂
"Peace was achieved through the mouth of our cannons" is an incredibly hard line.
Id love a focus piece on John Paul Jones, our epic Revolutionary Privateer. He set quite the example for our future naval officers: "Ensign, do you see that boat over there?" "Yes Captian" "I dont want to." "Yes Captain"
John Paul jones was a piece of shit that had numerous mutinies for a reason. Stephen Decatur Jr deserves more respect then he does. He just got lucky and was actually an awful example for officers
He NEEDS one!
John Paul Jones also holds another distinction; he was also an Admerial in the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Ekaterina II, also known as the Great, commissioned him having asked for a Naval Advior from the United States. Our Country has a very very long and very very strange Relationship with the Russians.
@@GeorgeSemellove-hate relationship turning toxic nowadays?
@@alicorn3924on off more like it
I love how the Barbary Wars literally set like 80% of our international warfare doctrine and methods that have been used for our entire existence
One of the few times the government was like "Well...if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Foreshadowing
installing puppets didn't start with America example is ottomans in north Africa except morocco it was independent
@@angelangelis8362 Sadly, a lot of governments nowadays seem to have adopted the doctrine of "If it ain't broke, fix it till it is."
Spot n stalk - bang
I would pay good money to see this saga made into a movie titled “Don’t F*ck With My Boats”
Sounds like the perfect script for a Monty Python film lmfao 😂😂😂
Just a animated show would be hilarious 😂
It’d definitely become a series of movies a La Fast and Furious…
Don’t Touch My Boats
Don’t Touch My Boats 2- Tripoli Boogaloo
DTMB- Fu€¥ Around
DTMB- Find Out
DTMB 1812- Madison’s Revenge
DTMB- Out of Proportion
There's been AT LEAST one movie made about this before you were ever born.
@@RyvakenI watched it on RUclips right after watching this.
“From the halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli.
We fight our country’s battles
On the air, on land and sea. “
Semper Fi🇺🇸
“Please for the love of God, do not mess with Americas boats” is one of the most sage sentences ever spoken.
Sun Tzu originally wrote that and everyone was like "who?" and he just said, "I know it's a few centuries too early, but just trust me on this one"
@@MisterW0lfe😂😂😂😂
Sun Tzu couldn't see the future so he left that part out of the Art of War
It reminds me of the American general who said something to the effect "Please, I am begging you, with tears in my eyes, don't make me kill every last one of you"
@@elgoogsucks9005 Chaos Actual is the GOAT
Morocco was like that one henchman who sees Batman sneaking around, doesn’t tell anyone, and then immediately quits the gang.
They were independent. They acted prudently and even honorably, I'd say.
Like the door man in john wick ... maybe you should take the day off
The Battle of 3 kings was fought in northern Morocco on 4 August 1578. A Moroccan victory, the battle has been described as "the greatest military disaster the Portuguese ever suffered in the course of their overseas expansion.
if he using american sources its slightly bias
@@ayoub8109 all sources are bias. NO matter how well intended you have to decide what info goes on and what doesn't.
Hense history gets rewritten as more sources from both sides become available.
Even though we are further away in time, we know more about what happened in WWI and WWII than we did 50yrs ago as more and more documentation is found.
Favorite line is always hard to pick but "You fucking Pilgrims did what now?!" is really high on the list for this one.
The entire exchange is awesome. " Yeah I guess i can leave your boats alone, thats seems generally a good idea"
🤣right
“Acoustic sr-71” from the mosquito video had me rolling
I imagine the Sultan of Morocco probably actually said something like that, given England's reputation back then.
"poke the Pilgrim King"
Is my favorite.🤣🤣🤣
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I remember learning about the Barbary Wars in my JROTC Marine class in high school and my 1st Sgt. summed it up as "While the rest of the world sat on their ass and watched the pirates, America and her Marines looked at that shit and said 'I want that shit gone' "
Gotta love how even at their inception the Navy is the definition of "I was told to be proportional, one of our boats for your entire navy maths out just fine to us."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I cackled at that last part 😂😂😂
The math is mathing right what do you think?
Great thing about math is i have doubled checked yours, and the math is correct lol
Triple-checked, and it's still right.
I know it's been covered by everyone and their mother, but CV-6 USS Enterprise was one of, if not, the most badass ship in the U.S. Navy. The Japanese believed she was crewed by the damned, because she would return time and time again after taking hits that they assumed would sink her. One of her fighter squadrons was literally called the Grim Reapers. Be kind of neat the see one of your videos about that ship.
The greatest ship of all time.
Absolute GOAT
Heheheheheheheheheheheh.... the nuclear enterprise was similarly wild.
@@alexanderhamilton8585 It's just a shame she was scrapped for parts😢
That ship should have been parked right next to the USS Constitution.
@@generaljimmies3429 Fuckin' agreed. Should be on the US Flag as far as I'm concerned.
It's impressive and speaks to the sheer professionalism, presentation, and showmanship displayed in your videos that I can watch them multiple times and still be completely entertained. Keep up the good work sir.
Am I the only one who's slightly bummed out by the fact that Tobias Lear prevented the US from just taking the entire country of Libya?
imagine cockblocking the Italians and Ottomans from ever getting Libya without fighting a major power
More and more with each recent atrocity I think about.
John "Three Purple Hearts" Kerry's hero and inspiration.
Better that than suffering the same fate as France and Italy. Not that our plight is any better, what with a nonexistent border and politicians hellbent on rescuing every "refugee" they can find before ever putting a dime towards solving our own poverty and homelessness crisis.
@@joskarifinaukr6503oh they are solving poverty and homelessness, one OD at a time.
Turns out Americans just want to be left alone. but the world just keeps finding ways to FOUND OUT
Then turned into the most powerful nation on Earth with the most powerful navy ever seen by man.
Oh and it still shows no mercy for pirates.
FIND OUT
The only Americans that even know the rest of the world even exists, live in D.C.
If only we could get them to leave.
They just keep poking the Grizzly. They don’t understand that it’s a bad idea and they’re going to get their shit kicked in!
The American military plays a game of "I'm not touching you" with a lot of nations. I'm not saying this excuses belligerent PLA activity (air/naval) in the "South China" Sea. It does not. However, we have gone through some pretty kinetic measures to prevent other nations from getting all up in our hemisphere (the Chinese station in Cuba could be an interesting case study). You think other countries like our military bases? I don't care if they do and I am glad the 'States has not only the technology but the positioning, but I totally understand why some countries don't enjoy having an American unit of "bomb your country" in the same time zone.
I don't care if your wife coming in is scripted or not it's hilarious every time
She is as funny as the electrician is.
She comes in for the kill (or lack thereof)
Every. Damn. Time!!!!
Shes the real unsung G.
As it should be
Wife hit him with drive-by emotional damage!
As a Marine Infantryman. Never mess with American boats because they carry US Marines and you absolutely don't want to mess with U.S
And Marines sure do love their Seamen
The last thing anyone wants to see sitting just outside their national waters is an American carrier strike group complete with a LHD battlegroup. That means that you are one diplomatic fuckup away from getting the whole kitchen sink thrown at you and possibly invaded by America’s deadliest autists.
@@Zerpderp0their*
@@darksu6947 thanks
Brother, I think you mean "Don't fuck with U.S. Navy ships because they have our Corpsmen aboard and the other Marine Corps motto is, 'no one fucks with doc!'"
A story I heard after the War of 1812, at Gibraltar, a squadron of American warships was passing to attack the Barbary Pirates. On shore, a British official asked an American naval officer to identify each of the ships. The officer said, "That's, the USS Macedonian, the USS Guerriere, and the USS Java." The British official said...oh nevermind.
Each of those ships the American "named" were British ships very publicly captured by the US Navy during the War of 1812
I thought they look familiar.
Americans literally taking names
The US making a British officer regretting his words, and putting his ego down a notch. Yeah sounds like something it would do.
@@mcarrowtime7095potentially where that saying came from lmaoo
Huh did the Brits own Java at that point?
The Barbary Wars are one of the most forgotten aspects of early American history, but they put the groundworks in for all the extra-congressional powers the president has been allotted. As well as the tactics used by the DoD in said extra-congressional actions. With most early American history you have to put so many different aspects together to understand where we are today, but with The Barbary Wars it is as if the writers got lazy and foreshadowed the hell out of the future.
5:45 ah, good ol religion of peace
Religion of peace of ships lol
USA had chattel slaves during this time period btw .
The first 200 years of American history is just the US having the audacity to fight and defeat every empire in Europe like a hitman's checklist.
Well of course we were the new kids on the block and had to establish our street cred or we would be everybody's bitch till the end of time.
@@Justin-LaFleurPlus, they were busy with their own problems back home and North America wasn't exactly a priority.
@wihamaki yeah the French Revolution and later Napoleon were giving Europe plenty to deal with.
America, Fuck Yeah, Save the MF Day!
@@wihamaki well there is the old saying "dont bite off more then you can chew" europe has a well recorded history of doing just that, fighting too many wars to efficiently fight each one, then they label the loses as "not a priority" when in reality they lost battles against smaller armies because they bit off more then they could chew, imagine thinking Great Britain viewed America as "not a priority" thats some serious copium
Dude you are a absolute legend for letting your wife burn you multiple times in front of almost 3/4 of a million people mad props
Not like she wasn't going to do it anyways, he may as well get the humor out of it!
I know my wife just gets sassier with a bigger audience.
I can't believe how hard I'm laughing right now!
Monetize your haters, LOL.🤣
Emotional damage.
Confidence is a hell of a drug.
"The Rainbow Shortcut to a$$ whipping Land"
I almost pissed myself laughing so dam hard, I'm also a former U.S. Marine, and the motto "First to go, Last to Know" is so very much true.
Never former. You earned your Eagle, Globe, and Anchor at P.I., Hollywood, or the Point. You are a Marine.
@@harveyhams1572
You beat me to it!
The only way any Marine LOSES that Title, is if they disgrace themselves and the Corps.!
No 'Former Marine.'
USMC VETERAN!
:-)
Navy here, Semper Fi gentlemen!
Is there such a thing as a "former" marine. I thought once a marine, always a marine.
@@annnunez7719
Actually, there is. If a Marine disgraces himself/the Corps., but especially if they are Dishonorably Discharged (And it's justified), they lose the Title. At that point, they're considered 'Former Marines.' (In polite company. If they deserved their 'Big Chicken Dinner' (ie 'Bad Conduct Discharge'), then we have many other Titles/Names that are usually applied.)
1:43 I know it wasn't but I really hope that was spontaneous
God PLEASE!!!
I thought bro was gonna say “I pUT mY ThInGs In iT.
So Jefferson is the originator of the "wink" understanding. "Potential" aggression. Deliver the "gifts". Yeah, the soldier absolutely understood the assignment.
"We bring gifts: cannonballs first... at distance"
Pretty insane how a country ascended from infant country on the fringes of the world to world hegemon in roughly 220 years, mostly because countries kept messing with its boats, and it has an irrational attachment to them.
Hey, it's not irrational. We just like them.
It’s our autism and we get to choose the special interest, we chose boats
So unfactual, im happy to talk about it if you want, but just know you'll lose.
Edit: do well to ignore this, my brother had my phone.
@@thatrandomeliteultra1158 name a war after the revolution that wasn't because someone messed with our ship. Go ahead I'll wait.
@thatrandomeliteultra1158 I mean, you can be smug all you want, but most of the wars that America got recognition for the growing power it was did start over ships. The Barbary war is a good one for setting foreign policy positions, war of 1812 was the war against Britain and while it wasn't exactly a win, did mean it wasn't just some country you could roll over with no effort. Spanish-American War, and both World Wars where America asserted it was itself a great power by knocking off a European empire (though sick), and the world wars where it proved itself a great power who could tip the scales, then one of only 2 superpowers.
In each of these cases, while only one reason for the war (as no war only has one reason), it's significant enough to make it into the textbooks and act as a national rallying cry in each circumstance.
Yes, of course, none of these truly address the reasons for the advantages America had, or how it got to the point where it could throw its weight around, but the final point is that it's not meant to be a checklist factors in America's rise, but instead, to be a humorous observation about the consistent through-line in American conflicts. Which, of course, is caused by the fact that America is separated by two oceans from the rest of the global powers.
As a Navy veteran, single father, and homeschooler...this material is 100% great to teach my teen son how our Navy came about and a history lesson!
Much respect from a fellow former sailor!
Tin Can Sailors Rule the Seas!!!
im in my thirties and love watching these to ... well... learn what i should have been paying attention to in school to learn... back in the 90s and early 2000s in a pretty good school. i was just in my own world half the time.
They used to teach this war in schools like a major war in the 50s until it got phased out of schools for newer wars post Vietnam.
It also shows that long lasting love/hate/respect relationship between the Marines and the Navy. Kind of like siblings.... "aww shit, you did what? Well, here we go again."
This is officially my new history channel. I found this channel about a year ago and it’s just absolutely amazing. This should all be used in classrooms. I just can’t praise this enough.
As I explained to my wife, at that time, the U.S. Navy armed itself with fast frigates; smaller than the big British ships, but able to sail circles around them. They *then* captained all those frigates with a bunch of "James T. Kirks". And this story was the result. 😄
Weren't they also ridiculously over-gunned for their displacement? I remember reading those frigates could outgun almost anything, but anything that had them outgunned, they could easily outrun.
@@immikeurnot I didn't know about the guns but I can absolutely believe that. Because "'Mericaaaah! Have some LIBERTY, mutha f**kas!"
See. We've *always*been like this.😅
@@immikeurnot- Yes, they were more heavily gunned than normal frigates of other navies.
@@immikeurnot Sounds like the first US frigates were sea going A10 Warthogs.
You realize that William Shatner was Canadian? LOL. I know. We love the Canadians
This brings backs memories. I originally learned about this while watching the History Channel, when it use to be actually be about history. Then I read up on it. Years later, I had a college history teacher claim he was a Marine officer. He covered the Barbary Wars but he had no idea about the The Marines' Hymn mentioning it. It went south really quick, cause we had an actual Marine in the class who called him out. A few weeks later, he lost his position over falsely claiming military service.
He f***ed around and found out, eh? XD
Stolen valor's a good way to end up on anyone's shitlist lol.
And then everybody clapped right?
Barbary pirates (with perfect Patrick Star impression): “TOUCH.”
America after vaporizing the pirate to dust: “Don’t touch.”
America: Touch our stuff and we send the boats.
Touch our boats and we send the sun.
When the USMC sing “from the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli” it’s not just a boast, it’s a *warning*.
If you anger the USA, then they will send those crayon munching, grenade flinging, iwo-jima taking aquagrunts to personally get your ass and put you on the news.
Aquagrunts has just become my new favorite term.
Aqugrunts. Lol. Gotta new way to address my brother! Thnx.
From the River to the Sea was originally USMC … No way! 🤣😂🤣
@@wolflordbradley7353in the Marine Corps it’s OOOOHRAH
And don't forget: Earn a new scary nickname.
As a Marine we learned these stories because obviously it's our History, but love hearing it go out to everyone. Semper Fi 👊😎
The History Instructor for my boot cycle was one of the biggest men I have ever seen and I'm not a small guy.
This huge motherfucker would pantomime the action of our history like Katt Williams on stage.
I was already a big fan of history but those classes were the best history classes I have ever attended.
You can’t have pride in your country unless you know the history of those who made that history.
Semper Fi!
FE, You have the power to unite Americans and get us back to our roots. Doesn’t matter what color you are, the only thing that matters is that you know what it is to be a true American and that you love/value the freedom millions before us have fought and died for. Speaking as a 1st generation Mexican American, I thank you sir.
What does "1st Generation" mean?
We are all one my friend. I don't care where you're from, you are here, and this makes America the great land it is.
Had to watch this one. I wasn’t disappointed. Learned a lot I didn’t know. Tied up some loose ends on the history of the marines. Fantastic. Thanks for another great one.
That shoplifting analogy is actually excellent.
I've always been of the opinion that those who best understand something are the ones that are able to succinctly and accurately teach it.
Rather, it's the ones who understand and are able to simplify who become outstanding teachers.
Plenty of people understand just fine but lack the talent to simplify.
Great video. Greek mercenaries represent!
Fun fact, we also had our own navy madman like the US had John Paul Jones. His name was Konstantinos Kanaris (active during our war for independence) and besides taking down the ottoman flagship and admiral on board with a fireship, his most crazy exploit was pretty much saying "Im gonna take some fireshships and 2 warships, some flags from foreign countries for cover, sail all the way to Alexandria, Egypt and burn their entire fleet at port. And the mad lad made it into the port without being identified but nature went against him as suddenly the wind changed direction and he was forced to go back and forth until the egyptians took notice and opened fire. Thankfully he managed to escape. He went on to lead the rebel navy to more battles and also served as Prime Minister after the war. Talk about a skilled maniac
This dude would make for a sick video! What a mad lad!
I am English and Evan like the John Paul Jones story he needs to do a program on him what a gangster
Pirates get flamed by Greek Fire!
I invest in this deep sea freight company and greeks and phillipinos have a huge ocean going presence much greater than i was aware. So much so I actually say to myself that i dont know if there is any better in terms of who is capable of managing global trade vessels. Phillipinos usually run a lot of ships because ships come through the phillipines and its poor there so they want to make money and travel the world so they become a deckhand and work their way up. Theres a lot of phillipino seamen and captains who are very exprienced despite what you might expect in terms of captaining a commercial trade vessel. The greeks I notice more often actually are incredible at actually running the shupping business. There is intense managing decisions and budgeting and there is grouod of disinterested peoole for advising and all these factors at play and i think greece has been experts in this region for longer than usa has existed. So much so I think they do it better than usa and we cant beat them based in global location alone for the specific sector. Usa is one of worlds largest traders making us a trade hub but greece and cyprus are under europe with middle east and india and asia in one side, europe above, africa below and usa across on the left side. So the location is key in their success i believe. Boating is a huge culture there roo with how many islands they have with turkey to the west of greece. Usa is less known for building trade vessels and more known for building battleships destroyers and aircraft carrier that can defend other countries trade vessels we didnt build because our builders are filled with naval vessels. we might not own the ship but we still benefit from the ship coming from far away lands and dropling off goods or picking up. I notice places like soith korea japan, around there, they do a lot of commercial ship building, the ships are sold to people like greece ship owner operators, and then theyl run trade all over thw world from there for usa and india and europe and africa and asia and south america, autrailia you name it. Its impressive hiw the whole globe almost is involved in different key ways. I was so impressed by how buttoned down that region of the world is in terms of the greeks running the business aspect. Greece somewhat keeps an eye on of the larger chunk of an island called cyprus which in itself actually serves sorta as its own island nation but falls ujdee with greece and eu but is also allianced with usa. Thus island has a deep sea freight main sector of its economy and that sector is favored there heavily. Its deep sea freight is its biggest sector. Greece and cyprus essentually act as a global trade hub for the developed world because it sits halfway between india and usa right under europe. Theres all these crazy companies like stealthgas ctrm zim in israel, theyre all based right in that region. Usa had this company named eagle bulk shipping they were the largest suezmax fleet holder in the world and were based in usa on the east coast. They just merged into a company based in both greece and cyprus named star vulk carriers so bow they have a base in usa, meddeteranian, and singapore i think. They have a fleet of some 157ish deep sea freight vessels. Its literally a HUGE company worth 4 billion usd in assets. To me this was so cool because i did like usa having a dog in the fight, but i see our allies and friends ovee in greece and cyprus are just so good at what they do that to me is was good so see eagle join with sblk and extended sblk to have a usa based sector as well and its allowed usa to have skin in the game if clearly one of if not the best commercial trade deepsea frieght global trade companies which ever existed. It makes the dutch east india company look small. It was cool to me because i believed 4 years ago when i was researching these companies that greece and cyprus doing dry bulk and oil tankering very well it woukd almost be betrer if we didnt compete with them but if we as usa actually teamed in their side. So when eagle became 1/3 owners of sblk via a merger that was like trading ohr company for 1/3 partnership in the greatest trade company there is which seems like a great deal for everyone as now this foreign company people were scared of because it wasnt based in usa, actually is now usa. Usa owns sblk. The whole world owns sblk actually. I never eve. Bougjt shares of sblk but i bought shares in ctrm ran by a guy in cyprus also and he did such an incredible job you can see he has worked hard and he put a bunch of the companies profits and is holding over 4 million shares of sblk in ctrm which is what i own. So i inadvertently am oart owner in sblk also. You have costamare doing boxships right in the same region. Its really ao incredible. Ctrm gas a subsidiary company namd toro corp a petroleum products tanker company that spun off from ctrm. Before it spun off it had 8 crude tankers it bougjt for 150 million and one of them was hauking oil out of the mexican gulf into the ports in texas for months on end back and forth. I sais by golly the texans gotta love it 😂 right?!?! Why arent they buying the shares? When ctrm spun off its oil product tanker company it sent it with the 8 tankers. It promptly sold them all every last one for 300 million and doubled its asset account in a very fast manner. As well as it bought 4 smaller LPG tankers from stealthgas. Its such incresible business you can see why the founding fathers in usa were so adament about us being able to trade with the globe and not only just britain. What I love about usa is we have a habit of acting like we are the best at everything. But greek cyprus deep sea commercial freight trade I use as my example of when usa cant beat them we join them. So its not actually a stonewalled stubborn attitude. It was beneficial for sblk to become 1/3 usa because now they have a usa sector their closest sector to these other regions they werent as close to with bases in greece cyprus and singapore alone. Now its this impressive company spanning the globe and its ao critical to not only usa but to sigapore, cyprus greece autrailia europe africa asia... its wild just how big of a deal the ocean trade is. Its the main reason we have a navy. It migjt be a ship made in south korea boigjt by a guy in greece or cyprus or portugal running trade between india europe and usa or south american and north or south america to africa or austrailia etc. There was this huge problem in usa because they said only usa flagged trade ships should be allowed to do trade between usa to usa trade. Like for example florida to texas or california to hawaii. Thats problematic when greece and cyprus do liquified gas tankering dry bulk tankering better and portugal has all the big box ships in costamare. So it almost makes sense for usa to be controlling owner of 1/3 of sblk because then we can say every sblk ship is 1/3 usa so theyre our ships. They just get flagged in panama or majuro or marshall islands because they register the ships where fees and stuff are the cheapest and there isny regulatory bodies that get too hardcore like in communist chima where no matter what you do youre in the wrong like in ussr. Cyprus itself doesnt pay corporate income tax. So a lot of the income not being taxable in sblk will actually grow the 1/3 chunk that is owned by eagle stakeholders at a faster rate compared to if the entire compamy was based in new york for example where the corporate tax rates exist and are also high. So its genius. The earth is 80% water that shows how important it is to us this realm of dominion to the whole world. We all live in these far away lands very different from any other but the water is how my country getsnrid of its excess supply of this and that in ordee to buy someone elses countries excess of this and that. We csn trade and we get what we need and get rid of what we have too much of and we send it to a land where ther eis less and its in demand and its profitable to do it. Global trade was a huge part of usa so much so our shipbuikding is filled with naval vessels way more than commercial trade vessels. Other peoole build the vessels on one side of thw world from us and on the other side of the world is the peopel who run them best and so when the others are so great we shall invest in them or merge together as a team. Usa is so big. India is so big, it only makes sense to have a totally unrelated region somewhere inbetween who handles aspects of the trade we can help with. We do shipping companies from time to time historically but the more i look at greeve and cyprus i realise they have location on water and usa has land off the water. Cyprus and greeve gave almsot no land but theyre is water all over and their businesses often are on the water. No othe region in the world has so many real and solid as rock deep sea frsight businesses that are based there. Its actually only for location and timing. You want guysnin medeteranian because they are up when europe it up and they can catch these other regions on either side as they wake uo and go to sleep. A deeo sea shipping comoany could be based antwhere as its headquarters doesnt gave to follow the ships around you can move the headquater and most the company is floating in water eslewhere still. So its an incredibly global industry unlike any others by far. The phillipines is just as needed for the industry as usa and europe etc.
China gas a huge fleet now but i think china is dumb theyd be betrer ifnthey had no ships and let other peoole pay for the ships and they just load them with what rheyre selling and unload them with what theyre buying. Japan and south korea europe and usa can build better ships. If i was buying ships id buy ones made in asian pacific region before china specifically. Mainly south korea. South morea with samsung heavy industries builds ships better than kias by a lot. Ctrm my favorite
I should point out Britain HATED the Barbary pirates. They had plagued our trade routes and even raided southern Britain for slaves , so "allying" in 1812 was hugely unpopular and generally seen as a dick move by everybody.
EDIT: video ideas - Teddy Roosevelt or Wyatt Earp
I’ll take both please.
Tombstone's only doctor, Charles Goodfellow, was about 1000000% more interesting than Wyatt Earp. You'll need to lay down for an hour after reading his wikipedia page.
It really is a shame that politics are so petty. The US and UK today make a great team. Imagine if, rather than fighting one another in 1812, we'd fucked the pirates up together. The Barbary Wars woulda been even more legendary than they already were.
@@lsswappedcessna It be even more legendary if the Dutch, French and Spanish also joined in.
Not really they liked them because they were able to buy slaves for cheap
They touched the boats?
They touched the boats.
Time to get proportional.
Get in!! I genuinely become happy when i see a new Fat Electrician post. I know that a history lesson is about to be delivered in a way that should be used in schools to get kids engaged in this amazing subject. Cheers from over here in the UK. Ive genuinely used your videos as a way to educate my kids. The current family favourite is still Operation Praying Mantis, mainly because of the use of the term proportional. Cheers buddy from one amateur historian to a legend
Thank you im glad you like um
When a 25 minute video seems to only last like 30 seconds because it just totally captivates you is a testament of its greatness, another one hit out of the park, thank you brother, keep ‘em coming (I would love to hear more about this “potato” incident you touched on!)
He has a video of it already.
USS O'Bannon Potato
More than just telling us great stories, you restore in me a sense of hope and pride in our country. I admit I'm demoralized by the appalling state of this republic, but your tales of courage, guts, balls, and grit remind me of our heroic history and our fight for right. Thank you and keep it up.
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make soft men.
Soft men make hard times.
There’s still hope.
We're a democracy dingus
@@brandon_montero wrong, we are a constitutional republic. There is a difference.
@@jsquared1013Bro literally anybody who didn't just run across these terms in 5th grade understands that a Republic s typically understood as a form of Democracy. Here in Florida we have both Direct and Indirect Democray, because we the voters can change out own laws as well as elect representatives to do so. We have indirect Democracy Federally tho. Please never in your life say that again because it shows that you don't even understand basic definitions of government.
@@jsquared1013 Also, "Republic" and "Democracy" were used interchangeably at that time
Hey, Navy vet here. Just discovered your channel but have already watched a bunch of your videos -- and this particular one, my favorite, I've watched at least 7 times. I've long known the overall story, but you added a lot of details I didn't know before. Great job!!
I think a great tale for you to narrate would be the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the results of the terrible miscommunications during it. Looking forward to many more great video stories from you!
there's a reason the Marine corps Hymn starts with
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
Can i just say that "Millions in defence, before a cent in tribute" may perhaps be the most raw line ever uttered
US does not negotiate with terrorist.
During WW1 until about halfway through WW2 the most powerful Navy in the World was the Royal Navy.
The US Navy saw incredible growth during both wars, eventually superseding the Royal Navy, before growing into the behemoth it is today.
Correct
@the_fat_electrician Outstanding video.
You've got a gift for great storytelling.
Question - why isn't Stephen Decatur lauded as much as other American (military) heroes?
There are many ever present names on public buildings, schools, streets, etc, but Decatur seems strangely absent.
Am I missing something, or am I just wrong?
Another bit of history not taught is how badly the Japanese plastered the Royal Navy in the Pacific, rendering them nearly irrelevant in the Pacific.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 He is pretty well known within the US Navy. There have been several ships named after him (currently DDG-73) and one of the "ships" (recruit barracks) at the Navy boot camp, RTC Great Lakes, is also named after him. Naval heroes just generally have less widespread popularity here in the US.
@@ianmacfarlane1241because the army and marines are the easiest to market back home side imo
Andrew Jackson marched in Mexico City, ie halls of monteczuna. This was the shores of Tripoli.
Imagine being one of the defenders and you get taken out by a ram rod.
“Yeah dude what are your war scars?”
“ I got hit by a broom….”
Your injury wasn't service related blooms don't heat
Vlad the Impaler + cannon = early Marine special operation
😂😂😂😂😂
Man thomas jefferson was such an incredible founding father. The different areas he had influence over and how he had so much influence yet wasnt tyrannical. How he helped literally architect usa and wrote the declaration of independance and also defeated state pirate regimes who were messing with our boats. If only he was alive today to sse how much bigger usa is
Hey, it was a tactical broom ok?
As a veteran of the US Navy, being in the belly of a carrier, and cooled off by the refreshing Persian Gulf air, I too know the benifits of non stick ball to thigh technology.
I find it so adorable the fact that Fat Electrician gets his wife into his videos from time to time
Your name made me do a double take lmao
@@Kingj411 Unfortunately my username was too long to fit an "a" in "shiftinggears"
@@Shiftinggersso drop a G and make it shiftingears
Awesome history lesson! Thank you. Glad I stumbled across this. I took numerous US history courses in high school & college. This was NOT covered. The story of the colonial privateers during our war for independence when we had very little navy is also some fascinating history. Maybe do a program on that sometime? Thanks again.
I’ve learned more about world and US history from this channel than I did in 12 years of private schooling.
I had my share of the "good" schools. Telling it like it was, was not their strong suit.
You beat me to it
public schooling ain't any better lemme tell you
"Do not mess with Americas boats" resonates pretty strongly right about now
200 years and the message still seems lost on some people.
(Stares at Houthis)
Sounds like a t-shirt in the making...
"Don't Touch Our Boats!" -- America
@@pennjazz 👀👀 I'll get on it
I've washed more bologna mist of myself the last few weeks then in the last year in Ukraine.
Plus its a bad idea to sink anyones nuclear aircraft carriers because nuclear reactor disasters are just terrible 😂
You would think after nearly two hundred and fifty years, people would learn to not mess with America's boats, or really anything that America considers its own. Apparently, some lessons require some additional time to sink in.
haha! "sink in" nice.
Actually everyone in the world remembered for 200+ years until some Somali pirates decided that the rules didn’t apply to them. They were wrong.
@@scooterdescooter4018ya great pun
@@chipsterb4946 'look at me, i'm da captain now'
no son, you really aren't, and you're going to regret trying
Some places have short memories, and a learning disability. Their level of find out is going to be "proportional" to their level of F____ around if they stay their course.......
19:11 🎵FROM THE HALLS OF MONTAZUMA TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI🎵
Semper Fi
Thanks!
“You’re going to take a bunch of rebels and fight with them to overthrow a dictator we don’t like and then out their leader in charge? Awesome, we will literally never do this again”
lol that sent me
"In the business, we call this foreshadowing."
Brits -“Oh just pay the pirates” -
U.S of MFing A “Did we not just kicked the f… out of you cuz we did not wanted to pay extra shit?!”
We need more history…
@@baronvonslambert You mean the Seven Years War. Thirty Years War was going on around the time the Pilgrims were discovering socialism was stupid. As for the debate about taxes, it was also because Parliament didn't have the authority to level taxes directly against the colonies so they were doing shit like the Stamp Act to get around those laws.
After having grown up in a town named "Decatur" and attended a high school of the same name, it seems pretty shameful that this short video has taught me more about Stephen Decatur and has made me more proud of the name than my public school education ever did.
Thanks for sharing all of these stories. You really have a gift!
Did you date her? And then proceed to Tucker?
From TN or GA?
@@scottrackley4457 no
@@cafn8ed74IL......?
Sir. We need this made into a movie. I’m 100% serious. This needs to be made into a full length high budget movie. The fact it hasn’t been is ridiculous. This story is absolutely amazing and would make for an incredible movie. Someone in the industry needs to make this happen. And you absolutely need to be directing the whole thing. It doesn’t have to be Hollywood overly dramatic. It’s plenty dramatic and entertaining while remaining completely historical. This needs to happen.
The crew that made "Master and Commander Far Side of the World" should make it.
I immediately thought the same...there badly needs to be a Stephen Decatur movie in all of our lives. The original American Badass.
John Paul Jones needs a movie as well.
Screw hollyweird. the daily wire could pick it up. Starring James woods, dean cain and Jon voight.
@@cactusman1771 That movie is so Fn good. It would be amazing if they made the movie the OP is talking about lol
King Alfred in 800AD said: "If you pay the Dane gold, the Dane never goes away". Hence England made the biggest and best navy in the world at the time which is why they sing; "Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!"
So the Brits forgot their own history? The mistake everyone makes.
@benjaminoechsli1941 they paid tribute to force everyone else to pay tribute, because it hurt everyone else way more than it hurt them. If they wiped them out then everyone else would be able to freely use the shipping g lanes increasing their competition. By letting them exist they put a barrier of entry up. It's kind of like when big corporations push for regulation because it makes it prohibitively expensive to enter the market and it's pennies to them because they already have the scale.
Correction!
It was the Dutch that first recognized the US as a sovereign nation in 1776 by saluting the USS Andrew Doria.
‘‘On 16 November 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the American navy ship USS Andrew Doria, with the American Declaration of Independence on board, arrived in St. Eustatius. Its captain fired a salute to the Dutch flag on Fort Oranje and Johannes de Graaff decided to answer the salute with eleven gunshots. And so the United States of America were for the first time recognized as a nation by this salute of eleven guns.
In 1939, President Roosevelt presented a plaque to St. Eustatius. Mounted on the flagpole inside the impressively restored Fort Oranje, it reads, "In commemoration of the salute to the flag of the United States fired in this fort on 16 November 1776 by order of Johannes de Graaff, Governor of St. Eustatius in reply to a national gun salute fired by the U.S. Brig-of-war Andrew Doria.(...) Here the sovereignty of the United States was first formally acknowledged to a national vessel by a foreign official’’.
*Dope*
Well Morocco was the first country to do it at an official level. This was just a random officer returning a courtesy- though it still counts and I learned something new today
Well that’s how that fort worked. When you would go there you would do a x gun salute and the fort would respond in x-2 gun salutes. The USA gave a 13 gun salute for the 13 colonies because MURICA
@@kylezdancewicz7346 Only if you were excepted in port and thus the flag under which the ship in question sailed was recognized, acknowledged and respected , that particular country or force would have to have a neuteral or friendly status with the Dutch republic.
Whoa! TFE, great delivery, rapid fire (I'm old and had to put it on 75% speed w/ captions but I'm a subscriber and will start hunting up older posts! Now THAT's a summary of an historic series of events!
The foundation of America's "Don't touch my shit" and hold true to this day.
Man I love when Thomas got pissed. You dont want to see Thomas when hes pissed
You know? This also has an origin to another phrase so popular in US culture: "we do not negotiate with terrorists", since the US decided to not make a deal with the pirates without a war first
What about the Taliban?
@@Arab-1995s Well you see, we classified them as this thing called "freedom fighters". Now you may ask, "what's the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists"?
A freedom fighter is someone the US government gives money and weapons to to fight people they don't like. A terrorist is anyone the US government doesn't like.
As a Marine Vet, this fills my heart with joy!
Same
This is my favorite of yours by far, man. And I’ve learned a good bit about our military history from you.
Navy Vet here. This channel inspired me to go back to school and become a history teacher so I can tell the youths how great America is
Good we need more of it
Nice
So how is it going loving the new job ?
I had to pause what felt like every ten seconds to just sit back and think to myself, "Dear god, this war really did just lay out every last line for the United States military shenanigans going forward didn't it?" It's like this was the war they decided to write the checklist during.
"From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine."
i love how deservably quickly you became a big youtuber by teaching history in an interesting fashion and also dont go over board with sponsors and such... love the content
Great video TFE! As soon as I read the title I got way too excited. "Oh sh*t, he's going to talk about Decatur and the scuttle of the Philidelphia!!"
It's truly an amazing story and not one widely known outside of maritime history and lore.
Even Admiral Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy gave praise to the heroism of Decatur, his men and the mission.
However Nelson was also uneased by the USS Constitution and the other super frigates built by the US, due to their performance and firepower. Thanks to a Boston shipwright they outclassed every other frigate on the water and he saw them as highly problematic for the Royal Admiralty in the years ahead. It was proven, a justified worry during the war of 1812 when they were blowing bows out, no contest.
Also to note (I believe) Stephen Decatur is still the youngest person to ever receive the rank of captain in the US Navy.
And when volunteering to lead the mission aboard the intrepid, he is quoted as saying ..."the fewer the number, the greater the glory"
The Constitution outclassed others because of the materials. No other nation had access to the amount of live oak that went into her hull. That is why she was "Old Ironsides" The Nav still maintains a forest of live oak to repair her.
Clearly, the Houthi rebels never saw this video...
Clearly alot of congressional representatives haven't either.
nor our current president
@@MelodicMethod ???
@@MelodicMethod Simp.
@@MelodicMethodyou mean the one who launched air strikes against the hothies 😂
I just want to say, I'm 70 years old and I LOVE your podcasts. I'm learning more about history watching your videos than I ever did in school. If I would have had a Teacher like you I would have looked forward to going to History class everyday!! lol You're awesome! Thanks so much!!💯
I love it when a new video comes out. The way the story is told is way better than any history classroom.
Check out Overly Sarcastic Productions, if you haven't already. Very similar vibe with world history and mythology.
My favorite RUclips channel of all time.
My grandson is nine years old and asks me to play your episodes every time he's with me.
Thank you for making our countries history interesting again and making us proud to be American.
Honestly I think the Sultan of Morocco was probably impressed that Jefferson just walked in there with the Aggressive Negotiating mindset, as well as the reasoning mentioned in the video, and then proceeded to sign the treaty of Peace and Friendship.
A few years later he was probably glad he did.
"You know whats way better than being on the world superpowers bad side? Having a friendship treaty and chillaxin amirite"-thomas "iron testicles" jefferson
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Well, it wasn't a superpower at the time. Everybody else thought it would collapse under its own weight in a few years, let alone rival the European powers.
Morocco benefited from having a ruler that wasn't obsessed with his mirror. I'm willing to bet the ruler of Morocco simply thought trade with the US, which even then was known to be rich in natural resources, was more profitable than a fight. Morocco was very lucky to have an intelligent ruler.
Basic ass dudes making hero like moves.
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I like how you put that first bit! Wish more leaders would be like that these days.
Your argument is also sound. I hadn’t thought about it like that. A wise Sultan indeed.
Idk if you realize how spot on your analogy of the retail stores and shoplifting was. That is exactly what they are currently doing.
Here again to recommend Col. John Stapp. His work on deceleration G-forces and its effect on the human body is insane. The guy survived the highest G-forces any human being has ever experienced on rocket sleds, also becoming the fastest man on the planet in the process. Some of his quotes are insane. He equated a feeling in his eyes during the test to the feeling of having a molar pulled without anesthetic, then later was quoted saying that they "hadnt reached the human limit" with these tests.
So what _is_ the human limit‽
I'm familiar with Stapp. I live within an hour's drive of the Space Museum at Alamogordo and they feature one of his rocket sleds on the outside grounds.
Dude survived almost twice the gravity of the sun. The sun being 28 G's and him going 48 G's I think.
That’s some roller coaster tycoon blender coaster stuff.
@@M33f3rGotta love them blenders!
i'm loving how your wife is making more appearances cuz it just ups the comedy during the ad reads and makes me actually wanna watch them. other channels need to take a page out of your book for their own ad reads
It wouldn't make much difference to me. I check comments during ads. But I do appreciate how she pops in, it's pretty good
13:30 I need a story on the Irishman that sank a sub with potatoes!! Seriously….i need it!!!
Public schools should use these videos in their so called "History" class. He would at the very least, get kids interested in our history and maybe even make the students feel something positive about OUR country
I'm sure he would also make State level history for a fee similar to the video he made on the Texas Battleship
Amen! But no, let's have our kids taught by leftists who hate America and decency instead.
Getting kids interested in history and feeling good about being American? That goes against *everything* the public school system stands for!
I know I do 😂
You misunderstand the purpose of the department of education. They hate America, so why would they want students to feel something positive?
The chubby electron man is pursuing a Master's in history to do exactly what you mentioned: change the outlook of America in history.
My 8th grade history teacher had sparked my love for history and it’s awesome stories and lessons due to a similar cadence to yours. History and culture in almost any realm or era has plenty of “fun” stories, it just takes a skilled delivery to make it intoxicating for others to enjoy as well! Thanks for the episode
I appreciate you going into specific battles and individuals! Unlike so many painfully short summery videos on the topic.
Truly an Epic American moment.