American Revolution, 1775-1781: Lexington to Yorktown | American Independence, US Colonial History

I've never seen a clearer account of the Revolutionary War. I finally understand it. No bells, no whistles, no jokes, just history as it happened. Thank you so much!

Another Masterclass in American history. Great job on this presentation

Context is everything, and you put everything in context. Thank you!

I've still got about 30 minutes left, but I couldn't wait to comment. THANK YOU! It is a shame that the History Channel can't hire you, because they don't do history docs anymore.

Great video! I would like to add some forgotten items: English anti-war emotion. All the English were NOT against the colonies NOR for the war. -1775 letter from a group of merchants and traders in the southwestern port city of Bristol sheds light on the economic concerns provoked by the burgeoning revolution. They wrote to the king to express their concern about the “unhappily distracted empires” and urged him to give the American colonists the freedoms they wanted rather than risk a precious trading relationship. -1776 Diary by Right Honorable Thomas Townshend that “the Government and Majority have drawn us into a war, that in our opinions is unjust in its Principle and ruinous in its consequences.” -1780 The Gordon Riots several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. The protest led to widespread rioting and looting, including attacks on Newgate Prison and the Bank of England and was the most destructive in the history of London. Troops had to fire on the rioters. After the first march to Parliament, further riots occurred involving groups whose grievances were nationalist, economic, or political/antiwar, rather than religious. Not merely tea or stamps or newspapers, but even rabbit hair for women's hats was taxed. Ink, paper, all kinds of things were taxed. And these were nuisance taxes because the British didn't want to raise the property tax, but eventually they had to do that, too. And so the war was largely unpopular because it was an economic dent in the British. -1780, there was unrest, both in Parliament and in the country in opposition for the continuance of the war and in rumblings of domestic reform at home. Even before the news of the disaster at Yorktown reached England, all the ministers in North’s cabinet, save one, Lord Germain, Secretary of State for America and in charge of prosecuting the war, were looking for a way to cut the losses and mediate an end to the war. He, with the backing of the king, still thought the war was winnable. -1781, that “opinion was that those who could understand were against the American war, as almost every man is now…” read James Boswell’s diary entry.

Thank you for putting the military capital of the Revolution, Morristown, NJ on the map. Few outside of NJ know of the significance of this area. The Watchung mountains were basically Washington's fort for the entire war and his bulwark against the British doing anything effective out of new york. The Continental army spent soooooooooooo much time in Central and Northern NJ it's insane. The entire Jockey Hollow and Morristown encampments (all four of them) were poorly documented and as such the rural areas around Morristown still bear remains of possible encampments. The Continental army also built several stone redoubts (poorly documented) that are still extant... Also nearby is a complete earthen redoubt from the Middlebrook encampment... one of the only complete original Revolutionary war fortifications in the country. New Jersey does a really shitty job highlighting it's Revolutionary war history.

Thanks for mentioning Gen George Rogers Clark! Too many people don’t know about him and the patriots on the Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee and Missouri frontier that fought in the Revolution. I didn’t until researching my ancestors 😀 my husband and I have many ancestors that fought, his ancestors were at Lexington and Concord one of mine was at Valley Forge

I've been watching since you began releasing content on the civil War a few years ago. Your videos on the revolutionary War are so in depth, detailed, and make sense of that period of time. Please continue what you are doing. Such enjoyable content.

Really outstanding technique. This is an outline for a deeper dive in history.

Its easy to forget that Americans fought each other a lot during this war. In many ways, it was our first civil war

I really enjoyed that. Its always odd to me that Howe seemed content with just sitting in NYC for nearly the entire conflict.

So happy to see real history on YouTube. Will share. Thanks!

This is great! Excellent primer, on America history. When you consider how short our history is, in compared to Europe and Asia, just a couple hundred years, it’s crazy that our schools can’t even teach this much.

Well done! Your videos are so refreshing to watch. Let’s get straight to the point with really effective maps. Keep up the good work. I’ll tell anyone who will listen to check out your work

Bravo Jeffrey! Excellent as usual. Thanks for doing these!

Thanks for the continuation of our national story!

What a fine production, professional in every way. Many other events await your fine format. TYVM!

Well done. We enjoyed the presentation. So informative in a condensed time. Great job. Keep them coming.

Excellent! Thanks for these videos, they're all great!

This is incredible content! Thank you sir