The REAL Start of the American Revolution: Fort William and Mary, New Hampshire, 1774

Описание: 250 years ago, on December 14th, the American Revolutionary War really began. Here in New Castle New Hampshire, locals and militias raided the English Fort William and Mary on the coast. Four months before Lexington and Concord, this act marks the first act of combat in the war, despite it never getting the recognition it deserves.

SOURCES:

I didn’t have time to put in footnotes in the video, so here are the main sources I used for this video!

For general New Hampshire History:
https://www.nhhistory.org/Timeline?id...


For the history of the fort itself:
https://www.northamericanforts.com/Ea...

https://www.nhstateparks.org/getmedia...



For the raids and first hand sources, this book, available in pdf for free from the US Library of Congress, is the best source:
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services...


These sources is also great - primary sources and otherwise:
https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/t...

https://books.google.com/books?id=_Zg...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...

https://www.nytimes.com/1886/07/12/ar...



Chapters:
00:00-00:58 - Intro
00:58-05:32 - New Hampshire
05:32-12:43 - Spirit of Rebellion
12:43-20:20 - The Raids
20:20-27:14 - Revolution
27:14-21:41 - Bloopers

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