The Glorious Cause - A Strategic & Tactical American Revolution Wargame

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Watching British historian Lucy Worsley’s PBS series on the American Revolution.

Here's the Smithsonian Magazine's take on the series: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-a-new-documentary-one-of-britains-most-famous-historians-reframes-the-american-revolution-as-a-messy-divorce-180988457/

Side note: Ben Franklin's early morning "air baths" in London are not mentioned in US schools, 😉.

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Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.

#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”

He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.

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The Glorious Cause — a strategic and tactical American Revolution wargame.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-a-new-documentary-one-of-britains-most-famous-historians-reframes-the-american-revolution-as-a-messy-divorce-180988457/

As a Brit resident in the USA who has more than a passing interest in US history and culture, my feelings about the American Revolution are so mixed and multitudinous that I won't try to put them all down here, although I might post some reflections over the course of the year.

I am glad that the article I've posted mentions the Gordon riots, an all too often forgotten episode exhibiting both the repressive violence wielded by Britain's rulers against their compatriots in the crowd, and the ugly bigotry coursing through that crowd.

Those riots also offer a jumping off point for an exercise in counterfactual history: what if those disorders had not been contained, but had turned out to be the beginnings of the British Revolution of 1780?

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It was one thing for the Continental Congress to ask Benjamin Franklin, Charles Carroll, and Samuel Chase to go to Montreal and salvage the faltering American invasion of Canada.

It was quite another for them to get there. #OTD April 9, 1776, it took them an entire day to travel 51 km (32 mi) from Albany, NY, to Saratoga.

“The roads at this season of the year are generally bad, but now worse than ever, owing to the great number of wagons employed in carrying the baggage of the regiments marching into Canada, and supplies to the army in that country,” Carroll observed in his journal.

The general in charge of the invasion told Carroll there was a plan to connect Montreal with New York City by means of some locks and a canal at the top of Lake Champlain. That would make the journey easier. But it would cost £50,000.

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"The Continental Congress expects your abdication by morning."

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Coastal Review: State launches digital exhibit featuring NC’s first governor. “The exhibit, ‘Governor Richard Caswell and Revolutionary North Carolina,’ contains 337 newly transcribed and searchable documents about Caswell’s career, the mobilization of patriot troops during the early days of the American Revolution, loyalists in North Carolina, and interactions with the Cherokee Nation.”

By April 1776, the American invasion of Canada was foundering, in part because the invaders were mistreating ordinary French Canadians.

“The peasantry in general have been ill-used,” rebel officer Moses Hazen admitted to a superior officer #OTD April 1, 1776. “They have in some instances been dragooned at the point of a bayonet to supply wood for the garrison at a lower rate than the current price.”

The invaders were also paying Canadians for things like carriages with certificates that were not honoured by the army quarter master because the signature was illegible or missing. The French Canadians were starting to think the Continental Congress was bankrupt, Hazen wrote.

As for the elite, which included the clergy and seigneurs, he thought seven-eighths supported the British and “would wish to see our throats cut and perhaps would readily assist in doing it.”

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