EARLY EPISODE: The Raid on Deerfield

The Troupes de Marines weren't actually part of the French Navy- they were responsible to the Colonial Office. Today they're part of the French Amy *not* Navy- the latter has Marine Commandos instead.

5 6-7 8 who do we appreciate? uuh, the hosts!

the thing about Deerfield Mass. is that it’s in like one of the only relatively flat areas of New England that isn’t right on the coast, it’s directly in the middle of a very very long narrow valley with relatively small hills on either side, with a tributary running directly north and west of it and the Connecticut River snaking down the east side. if you’re defending this place in winter and your enemy is coming from the west, you’re literally surrounded by pre-prepared trench lines that provide your enemy the perfect stealthy approach, you also have a giant hilly forest to your southwest, which provides a great stealthy approach when the rivers aren’t frozen over. also, there’s not really a big road down the Conn. river valley yet, and like maybe one bridge going to the east over the big river, so good fuckin luck running away!

I forgot that Ferngulley had a name I thought that shit was just like a dream that they beam into everyone’s heads around age 6-7 or so to make us be nicer to the environment

pepperidge farm remembers when the podcast's meme drink was old crow.

I like to think that if Cobain had lived longer he would've become very good friends with Isaac Brock for like 3 months then they'd spend the next 20 years talking mad shit about each other.

Love this! Long time listener, but can someone tell me where on the Discord I can find some fun Donkey talk? I know it's a lovely little community and I want to be a part of it .

subsistence farmers in early 1700s massachusets... so like as little as 10 years prior they had been acusing each other of witchcraft?

Fuck! I wasn’t ready for waddle and daub goon cave…

I can kind of understand why a fuckwit at a Tommy Robinson rally would think the Georgian flag is some sort of Crusader flag with the 5 red crosses. But racist fuckwits rarely actually have the reverence for the flag they claim to. There's all the people wearing flags as capes, so they drag on the ground. And they often get the flags wrong. Being from the continent of Australia, we often get our flag mixed up with other countries. There's a lot of dark blue flags with a Union Jack and something. Frequently our flag gets confused with Aotearoa/New Zealand. They have a red with white border Southern Cross, we have a white Southern Cross. Admittedly we also have that stupid 7 pointed star. The best mix up I ever came across, though, was a racist fuckwit I got into an argument with, who made some terrible remarks about First Nations people, and finished off with a heap of flag emojis she clearly thought were the Australian flag. But they weren't. She'd used the flag for.... Ascension Island. I knew immediately she hadn't used the right flag (that star was missing and it didn't have the Southern Cross), but I had no idea which flag emoji she was using. It took me a while to figure out it was Ascension Island. Which, by the way, is a chunk of rock in the Atlantic which has an air force base and several research facilities. You can stay there and it does actually look OK. She didn't think she'd used the wrong flag at first, which was fun, because I got to get really insulting. And then, the whole thing disappeared before I could get screenshots.

I'm early in, and if we're getting out state beef out there let's do it. I don't respect the sovereignty of the state of Wisconsin. It's land should be divided amongst it's neighbors excluding Iowa.

Is it bad that I’m picturing the Yorkshire men in the meeting of natives and Yorkshire men all being dressed like the Jimmies in 28 years later?

I saw Deerfield and immediately went "YES!" because my family is from that part of Massachusetts, though they showed up in the 1840s after all this happened. Now the main commerce in Deerfield is based around Yankee Candle.

The native peoples in Americas came through Beringia during the ice age. They most assuredly had snowshoes already when they did.

Love to hear my part of the world get cover. I used to go to the Schaghticoke Fair every summer. I always need to look up how to spell that, the English version of a Dutch spelling of a Native word is always an adventure.

I diagnose you with acute chronic 🤷 deseise… dark jokes aside, the great dying and the wars associated with it are a massively overlooked historical genocide

I’ve literally been to Deerfield Mass. multiple times in my life, there’s a butterfly sanctuary there called Magic Wings, pretty sure it’s still there, I also remember seeing a living history tour of a reproduction of the old garrison, there’s a blockhouse but I don’t remember if it’s original or a reconstruction, my bad

Stephen Yaxley Lennon being not antisemitic enough for a guy at a barely disguised neo-nazi rally is the most like, idk but that’s some wicked ulster Protestant type right wingedness lmfao

Whenever colonialism happens, the biggest, most aggressive, and collaborationist indigenous groups end up working with the colonists to butcher and enslave the other indigenous groups, getting rich and powerful in the process, but then inevitably becoming victims of the settlers too. It makes it really hard to root for them when they inevitably become the main anti-colonial resistance group. It's bastards all the way down.

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Love some local history

WABANAKI CONFEDERCY MENTIONED!!!!! I live on a tribes traditional territory and grew up beside the reserve and many friends are part of tribes that are still in the wabanaki confederation :3 (there's 2 tribes where I live)

I live there, that’s random! My post office is modeled after the original meeting house of 1696.

I was like no way its a Deerfield Deerfield. Shout out to Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory, if you're ever in Deerfield I highly recommend.

Sorry Nate, a smack barm pea wet is far worse than a hash brown sandwich. The "smack" is a slice of battered and fried potato The "barm" is a bread roll The "pea wet" is the runoff water from making mushy peas Only a place as wretched and degenerate as Wigan could create an abomination like this.

You should take care to not release the Irish on land (for an example of the danger of this see the infestation known as Boston PD), but they are quite important for the maritime ecosystem where they keep the Mountbatten population under control. Nature is beautiful!

Sigh. I guess I'm just never looking at wattle and daub quite the same way again. Thanks, guys

I wish was in Deerfield Florida where my Ex lives. Doe! A Deer. ❤️‍🔥🎉

Deer 🦌