BONUS EPISODE: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

A funny detail you missed about Paul Revere and the other riders is that they were released by the british because the soldiers guarding them heard gunfire, believing it was an attack they decided to let the riders go. The attack never actually came however because the gunfire the british had heard was from soldiers in a nearby town emptying their rifles so they could go get shitfaced in the local tavern. It was a common thing soldiers did because they knew that if their guns were loaded while drunk someone would probably accidently get shot.

Marsailles Illinois checking in. Pronounced Mar-Sales. We call it Martucky; because even though it's only an hour south of Chicago, you've somehow crossed the Mason Dixon when you get there.

We DO count the horses. And the dogs!

Mohawk war paint was the juggalo face paint of its day.

We used to play a game called 351 which consisted of passing around a handle of of liquor and naming one of the 351 municipalities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; if you mispronounced it or repeated a name, you had to drink. I honestly can’t remember if neighborhoods counted or not, but I know for a fact that Satan’s Kingdom was not a valid answer since it is not an incorporated town.

Just kidding, I’m really hoping you do a story of one the many fuckeries committed by the commonwealth of Massachusetts and Britain. A phenomenal book about my people is A Great and Noble Scheme by John Faragher. Just fucking brilliant, I learned so much that’s been kept from me and it’s clear now why.

DID I HEAR ACADIAN!?! HELL YEAH, ACADIA WILL RISE AGAIN!

In the run-up to the war, the patriot groups did escalating actions - the nature of the individual acts is indicative of the revolutionary character of the groups involved. In Boston, the groups were careful to remain non-violent - destroying property only and specifically property owned by non-colonials. In New Jersey, they went a different route... they had their own version of the Boston Tea party, except they were exceedingly violent and targeted not only non-colonials, but loyalists within their own communities. This foreshadows the bitter civil war and sectarian strife which characterized New Jersey's wartime experience. New Jersey has literally ALWAYS been like New Jersey.

Tar and feather was not modern tar it was pine tar. You used it for rope making. It kept the intertwined rope together. It wasn’t pleasent but it wasn’t boiling hot like tar you use for roads today

Tooth-money: if it orkz, don't fix it

Is there an episode on the Mohawk Valley theater of the American Revolution?

If you’re going to do another American revolution thing you need to do Horatio Gates and/or the battle of Camden.

George III made the fatal mistake of giving a shit about the emerging British Empire, as opposed to his predecessors (grandfather and great-grandfather ie. the first two Georges) who were imported from Germany because they were the closest Protestants with a claim to the British throne. In any event they mostly didn’t give a shit abut British affairs and preferred spending time in their native Hanover. George III, by contrast, was English born and raised. And he and his favorite ministers like Lord North were utterly baffled by the anger in the American colonies at what the British government thought were perfectly reasonable and fair measures. It didn’t help that their main sources for what was happening across the Atlantic tended to be the British colonial officials who were on the receiving end of colonialist vitriol and even violence. Ultimately well over a century of de facto colonial autonomy and the fact that the American colonies already had their own state legislatures etc, and were in many ways self-sufficient and wealthy to enough of an extent that they felt they didn’t *need* British control, made George III’s and his ministers’ efforts doomed from the start, IMO. Independence was inevitable, it was just a matter of when and how.

So the tar used when they did tar and feathering was often pine tar, which required less heat and while uncomfortable was often not deadly

I agree at the end where you said that the history genre of podcasting is dry, but this show (and the Dollop) keep history fresh, even if it's something I already know about. Hopefully you guys win the award, but fall of civilizations and the history of ww2 are both excellent.

Lan-kis-ter thanks for the local shoutout

I feel like Francis should have been involved in the conversation about butchering the pronunciations French named towns.

“It’s weird how many foundational moments in American history involve killing German people” I request a new T-shirt in the store

New England naming conventions are stupid and ridiculous until you move here and then getting them right becomes an essential part of your identity

The first episode of the John Adams miniseries by hbo has a gruesome tar and feather scene btw