Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / November 1775
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- 0:00Well, welcome to the live shoot podcast.
- 0:01My name is Jeff Dol, and I've been a licensed farm dealer for the last 18 years.
- 0:04And this podcast to talk about all things related to Second Amendment, as well as anything else going in the world, a sports story, or anything else that I might find interesting.
- 0:13So welcome, welcome, welcome folks.
- 0:14And, this is gonna be one of our special episodes.
- 0:17If you haven't if you're just joining us we have been go stepping back in time as we prepare for the 250th anniversary of, of, of this country, which will be July 2026.
- 0:29And as a part of that, we've been go going back 250 years for that this particular month and what was going on in the revolution at that point in time.
- 0:38So we have done July of 1775.
- 0:41August of 1775.
- 0:43September of 1775, October of 1775 and now we're about to do November of 1775.
- 0:49So if you haven't listened to those previous ones, go back, listen to'em, catch up on what's been going on.
- 0:55But you know, before we do di dive into November, let's do a quick look of where we've been.
- 1:00So back in July, 1775, the Continental Army's forming up around Boston, Washington.
- 1:05He's pension, pennies on supplies and the red cos are hunkered down.
- 1:10Across the New York, so August militias are itching for some action.
- 1:15Congress is haggling over the armies and the fige is even tighter now September.
- 1:20There's more powder shortages.
- 1:23They're staring down the Brits with grit and grit alone.
- 1:26October, we've got privateers are starting to snag.
- 1:29British supply ships foul mouth burns in British spite and Vuc Arnold, he's kicking off and heading towards c Quebec through Maine.
- 1:38Now, revolution was not tidy.
- 1:41It was a, a tidy little tea party.
- 1:43It was full of.
- 1:44Brawl for Liberty, and in November, November's when the stakes are starting to skyrocket.
- 1:49So let's look and see what's going on in November.
- 1:51So November 1st kicks off with Congress getting the gut punch.
- 1:55They word hits him, hits Philly, that the King George.
- 1:59He's just ignoring their olive branch.
- 2:01He's torched it.
- 2:02He calls the columnist in full rebellion, hires Hessian mercenaries like it's Black Friday at the Arms Depot.
- 2:09That's the Royal Middle Finger folks.
- 2:11No more olive branches just being at Washington's army around Boston.
- 2:15Still sing, still scraping, but up north things are heating up in Canada's campaign.
- 2:20George, Richard General.
- 2:21Richard Montgomery's been pounding away at Fort St.
- 2:24John on the OU River.
- 2:26Remember that, what, from October?
- 2:28Well, on the second.
- 2:30After 55 days bridge ERs, the Fort Fos, like a cheap tent.
- 2:34Boom, 500 red coat prisoners, 41 cannons in American hands.
- 2:39Montgomery's grinning like a fox in the hand house and he's marching onto Montreal through the rain and muck.
- 2:45And that's the kind of.
- 2:46A bold armed push that says, we're not just defending, we're taking the fight to him by the third down in South Carolina, South Carolina, loyalists roughnecks under Patrick Cunningham are ambushing patriot supply wagons headed for the Cherokee.
- 3:01Guns and power are meant to keep the frontier calm.
- 3:04Skirmish Cities folks, but Congress, they're not sitting idle.
- 3:08On the fourth, they reorganized Washington's army to 20,000 strong enlisting through 1776.
- 3:15That's muscle built for the long haul and the Naval Committee's on fire.
- 3:18They've snapped up eight more merchant ships, aiming, arming as men of War, Alfred Columbus, Andrew Doria names.
- 3:28That scream defiance.
- 3:29On the fifth, they tap Essex Hopkins as the first commander of the Continental Navy Brother Stevens on the committee pulling strings.
- 3:39These ain't fancy frigates.
- 3:40They're armed citizens of war privateers with the presidential wink proving that the seas no safe haven for tyrant.
- 3:49Now November 7th, drops two bombshells that'll echo through history.
- 3:52First across the pond, British House of Commons.
- 3:55Laugh off that olive branch for good.
- 3:57No reconciliation, just war homes, but closer to home.
- 4:01Lord Dun Maier.
- 4:02He's a Virginia governor.
- 4:04Issues a proclamation from onboard the HMS fowey.
- 4:07He declares martial law brands re rebels, traders, and, and here's the kicker.
- 4:13He offers freedom to.
- 4:14Any slave who grabs up a musket for the crown, the Ethiopian regiment's, what they call'em, freed men, fighting for the red coats.
- 4:21Folks, this lights a fuse under every plantation owner, loyalists or not, is desperation from dunmore, but it radicalizes the fight.
- 4:29Armed slaves versus armed masters.
- 4:33The ninth Benedict Arnold, he ragtag crew down to 675.
- 4:38Frost pit, frost pit, and soles after the 300 mile main nightmare, finally hits the St.
- 4:44Louis River eyeballing Quebec City.
- 4:46They're half dead from starvation and swamp, but armed to the teeth and howling for a shot at the bastion of British North America, same day as skirmish at Tmore Point.
- 4:56Brits raided for cattle, but Colonel William Thompson's rifleman, chase'em off like wolves from a campfire.
- 5:02Washington Orders.
- 5:03Fort Putman built right there.
- 5:04Boom.
- 5:05Another Thorn in house side.
- 5:07November 10th, mark this one, you, Marines, Congress Green Lights.
- 5:11Two battalions of Continental Marines.
- 5:13Seamen with Muskets.
- 5:15Born at Tavern.
- 5:16In In Philly.
- 5:17First Commandant.
- 5:19Samuel Nichols, that's the birth of the core, and we'll be celebrating that birthday here.
- 5:24This podcast, I'm recording on the eighth, so in a couple days we're gonna celebrate the birth of the core.
- 5:29And if you're listening to this sometime in the future, yep.
- 5:32November 10th, that's when we celebrate the core and up in Boston.
- 5:36Privateers from Plymouth Snag two British supply ships, landing the prisoners on Plymouth Rock with cheers for American arms, but knot all smooth on on the 12th.
- 5:46Washington drops a hard order.
- 5:48No more enlisting black troops.
- 5:49Freer slave grim chapter in the Fight for Liberty.
- 5:52Showing the contradictions, even heroes wrestled with still the army's holding.
- 5:58Sing Boston like a ice.
- 5:59Then 13th Montreal falls.
- 6:02Montgomery rolls in unopposed.
- 6:04Carlton evacuates like a rat from a sink ship and the yank sees a city plus two rivers.
- 6:10It's a queen.
- 6:11It's a clean sweep in Canada, opening road to Quebec.
- 6:14Arnold's crew hears the news and digs in on the planes of Abraham demanding surrender.
- 6:18McClean's like not today, but the news is tightening mid month.
- 6:23Heats up in the down south the 15th.
- 6:27The Battle of Kemp's Landing in Virginia.
- 6:29Dunmore has got 150 Redcoat loyalists and those new Ethiopian recruits charging 200 Patriot militia under Colonel William Woodford.
- 6:37Brits win a bloody scrap.
- 6:39Nine Americans lost, but Woodford's buying time, fortifying great bridge.
- 6:43It's malicious steel against Royal de desperation.
- 6:46The kind of stand that screams the Second Amendment 19th through the 21st.
- 6:52Snow campaign kicks off in South Carolina.
- 6:55Nine six district loyalists under Cunningham 18 or strong besieged 600 Patriots.
- 7:00Hold up in a log forward it savage Savages.
- 7:03Old fields Colonel Andrew Williamson's crew digs in, but after days of Ling, they truce it out.
- 7:09First real civil war flare up in the back country.
- 7:12Brother versus brother, musket versus musket.
- 7:14And up North.
- 7:15Colonel John Brown's boys ambush Carltons.
- 7:18Flotilla on the floor, singing ships, nabbing, general Prescott, and 145 troops.
- 7:24Carlton slips away, but it's another gut check for the Brits.
- 7:28By the 27th, captain John Manley schooner Lee bags, HMS, Nancy, off of Cape, and loaded with 2000 muskets powder and mortar.
- 7:38They dubbed Congress.
- 7:39That's the noble train of artillery.
- 7:41Cousin, cousin, folks.
- 7:44Civil smarts, feeding the light.
- 7:46Congress lays down new rules on the 28th and by the 29th Arnold knocking on Quebec's Gates.
- 7:53Back in Philly, they formed the Committee of Secret Correspondence, Ben Franklin, John Adams, the Brain Trust, plotting Allegiance Alliances.
- 8:01Same day, new Haven.
- 8:02Hot Heads under Captain Isaac Sears, trash Loyalist Printer, James Tritons Press in New York.
- 8:08Parading Tories like.
- 8:10Captured game, defiance is everywhere.
- 8:12Whew.
- 8:13November, 1775.
- 8:15It's the month revolution goes Global Canada invasion, Navy and Marines.
- 8:20Birth Dun Moore's gambit, backfiring and malicious.
- 8:22Proving that armed res resolve beats empire every day time from Boston Sea to Quebec.
- 8:29Shadow focuses like you and me.
- 8:30Farmers, sailors raffle riflemen with powder in their horns and fire in their eyes.
- 8:36Here's the takeaway, folks from 17 November, 1775 ain't just dates and dispatches.
- 8:42It's the raw pulse of why we defend the Second Amendment, like our life.
- 8:45Depend on it back.
- 8:47'cause back then they did.
- 8:48Lord Meyer weighs freedom at the enslaved, but his armed columnists, black, white, free.
- 8:54Or, or fighting for it.
- 8:56Who did tips the scales?
- 8:57Private tears swiping prizes, militia, holding down 96.
- 9:02Arnold Frozen marchers.
- 9:04That's self-reliant, not waiting for King's permission to bear arms.
- 9:08It's a shield against proclamations and powder grabs the guarantee that no admiral or governor dictates your liberty.
- 9:15And as we barrel towards 250 years of freedom, remember that's the right to keep'em bare.
- 9:20It's the thread from Montreal's capture to your front porch day.
- 9:23Stay vigilant.
- 9:24Stay armed.
- 9:26Tyranny doesn't take any holidays.
- 9:28So next time we're gonna talk about December, 1775.
- 9:31Washington's winter woes more Canada chaos, and the spark that lights the new year.
- 9:37You don't wanna miss it.
- 9:38So if you're fired up, hit the subscribe button, share this podcast with some podcast with somebody, let'em know what's going on.
- 9:45We have to continue to fight for our right to bear arms and it, they're not gonna give up.
- 9:51We got a a, a so communist socialist running New York who's already said we need to seize all the guns.
- 9:58So the fight's just starting and we've gotta keep it going.
- 10:02So.
- 10:03Take care.
- 10:05Have a great weekend and I will talk to you later.