November 8, 2025 • 10 mins
In this installment of Live to Shoot – Defending Our 2nd Amendment Rights, host Jeff Dowdle cranks the time machine back to November 1775, where the American Revolution ignites from simmer to full blaze. As the countdown to America's 250th anniversary marches on, Jeff unpacks a month packed with high-stakes maneuvers: General Montgomery's lightning capture of Montreal, the birth of the Continental Navy and Marines, and Benedict Arnold's frostbitten siege of Quebec. Down south, Lord Dunmore's desperate proclamation offering freedom to enslaved fighters sparks fury and civil strife, from Kemp's Landing to the Snow Campaign's backcountry brawls.
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(00:00):
Well, welcome to the live shootpodcast.
My name is Jeff Dol, and I'vebeen a licensed farm dealer for
the last 18 years.
And this podcast to talk aboutall things related to Second
Amendment, as well as anythingelse going in the world, a
sports story, or anything elsethat I might find interesting.
So welcome, welcome, welcomefolks.
And, this is gonna be one of ourspecial episodes.
If you haven't if you're justjoining us we have been go
stepping back in time as weprepare for the 250th
(00:23):
anniversary of, of, of thiscountry, which will be July
2026.
And as a part of that, we'vebeen go going back 250 years for
that this particular month andwhat was going on in the
revolution at that point intime.
So we have done July of 1775.
August of 1775.
September of 1775, October of1775 and now we're about to do
(00:48):
November of 1775.
So if you haven't listened tothose previous ones, go back,
listen to'em, catch up on what'sbeen going on.
But you know, before we do didive into November, let's do a
quick look of where we've been.
So back in July, 1775, theContinental Army's forming up
around Boston, Washington.
He's pension, pennies onsupplies and the red cos are
(01:09):
hunkered down.
Across the New York, so Augustmilitias are itching for some
action.
Congress is haggling over thearmies and the fige is even
tighter now September.
There's more powder shortages.
They're staring down the Britswith grit and grit alone.
October, we've got privateersare starting to snag.
(01:29):
British supply ships foul mouthburns in British spite and Vuc
Arnold, he's kicking off andheading towards c Quebec through
Maine.
Now, revolution was not tidy.
It was a, a tidy little teaparty.
It was full of.
Brawl for Liberty, and inNovember, November's when the
stakes are starting toskyrocket.
So let's look and see what'sgoing on in November.
(01:51):
So November 1st kicks off withCongress getting the gut punch.
They word hits him, hits Philly,that the King George.
He's just ignoring their olivebranch.
He's torched it.
He calls the columnist in fullrebellion, hires Hessian
mercenaries like it's BlackFriday at the Arms Depot.
That's the Royal Middle Fingerfolks.
No more olive branches justbeing at Washington's army
(02:14):
around Boston.
Still sing, still scraping, butup north things are heating up
in Canada's campaign.
George, Richard General.
Richard Montgomery's beenpounding away at Fort St.
John on the OU River.
Remember that, what, fromOctober?
Well, on the second.
After 55 days bridge ERs, theFort Fos, like a cheap tent.
(02:34):
Boom, 500 red coat prisoners, 41cannons in American hands.
Montgomery's grinning like a foxin the hand house and he's
marching onto Montreal throughthe rain and muck.
And that's the kind of.
A bold armed push that says,we're not just defending, we're
taking the fight to him by thethird down in South Carolina,
South Carolina, loyalistsroughnecks under Patrick
(02:57):
Cunningham are ambushing patriotsupply wagons headed for the
Cherokee.
Guns and power are meant to keepthe frontier calm.
Skirmish Cities folks, butCongress, they're not sitting
idle.
On the fourth, they reorganizedWashington's army to 20,000
strong enlisting through 1776.
That's muscle built for the longhaul and the Naval Committee's
(03:17):
on fire.
They've snapped up eight moremerchant ships, aiming, arming
as men of War, Alfred Columbus,Andrew Doria names.
That scream defiance.
On the fifth, they tap EssexHopkins as the first commander
of the Continental Navy BrotherStevens on the committee pulling
(03:38):
strings.
These ain't fancy frigates.
They're armed citizens of warprivateers with the presidential
wink proving that the seas nosafe haven for tyrant.
Now November 7th, drops twobombshells that'll echo through
history.
First across the pond, BritishHouse of Commons.
Laugh off that olive branch forgood.
No reconciliation, just warhomes, but closer to home.
(04:01):
Lord Dun Maier.
He's a Virginia governor.
Issues a proclamation fromonboard the HMS fowey.
He declares martial law brandsre rebels, traders, and, and
here's the kicker.
He offers freedom to.
Any slave who grabs up a musketfor the crown, the Ethiopian
regiment's, what they call'em,freed men, fighting for the red
(04:21):
coats.
Folks, this lights a fuse underevery plantation owner,
loyalists or not, is desperationfrom dunmore, but it radicalizes
the fight.
Armed slaves versus armedmasters.
The ninth Benedict Arnold, heragtag crew down to 675.
Frost pit, frost pit, and solesafter the 300 mile main
(04:42):
nightmare, finally hits the St.
Louis River eyeballing QuebecCity.
They're half dead fromstarvation and swamp, but armed
to the teeth and howling for ashot at the bastion of British
North America, same day asskirmish at Tmore Point.
Brits raided for cattle, butColonel William Thompson's
rifleman, chase'em off likewolves from a campfire.
Washington Orders.
(05:03):
Fort Putman built right there.
Boom.
Another Thorn in house side.
November 10th, mark this one,you, Marines, Congress Green
Lights.
Two battalions of ContinentalMarines.
Seamen with Muskets.
Born at Tavern.
In In Philly.
First Commandant.
Samuel Nichols, that's the birthof the core, and we'll be
celebrating that birthday here.
(05:24):
This podcast, I'm recording onthe eighth, so in a couple days
we're gonna celebrate the birthof the core.
And if you're listening to thissometime in the future, yep.
November 10th, that's when wecelebrate the core and up in
Boston.
Privateers from Plymouth Snagtwo British supply ships,
landing the prisoners onPlymouth Rock with cheers for
American arms, but knot allsmooth on on the 12th.
(05:46):
Washington drops a hard order.
No more enlisting black troops.
Freer slave grim chapter in theFight for Liberty.
Showing the contradictions, evenheroes wrestled with still the
army's holding.
Sing Boston like a ice.
Then 13th Montreal falls.
Montgomery rolls in unopposed.
Carlton evacuates like a ratfrom a sink ship and the yank
(06:07):
sees a city plus two rivers.
It's a queen.
It's a clean sweep in Canada,opening road to Quebec.
Arnold's crew hears the news anddigs in on the planes of Abraham
demanding surrender.
McClean's like not today, butthe news is tightening mid
month.
Heats up in the down south the15th.
The Battle of Kemp's Landing inVirginia.
(06:29):
Dunmore has got 150 Redcoatloyalists and those new
Ethiopian recruits charging 200Patriot militia under Colonel
William Woodford.
Brits win a bloody scrap.
Nine Americans lost, butWoodford's buying time,
fortifying great bridge.
It's malicious steel againstRoyal de desperation.
The kind of stand that screamsthe Second Amendment 19th
(06:50):
through the 21st.
Snow campaign kicks off in SouthCarolina.
Nine six district loyalistsunder Cunningham 18 or strong
besieged 600 Patriots.
Hold up in a log forward itsavage Savages.
Old fields Colonel AndrewWilliamson's crew digs in, but
after days of Ling, they truceit out.
First real civil war flare up inthe back country.
(07:12):
Brother versus brother, musketversus musket.
And up North.
Colonel John Brown's boys ambushCarltons.
Flotilla on the floor, singingships, nabbing, general
Prescott, and 145 troops.
Carlton slips away, but it'sanother gut check for the Brits.
By the 27th, captain John Manleyschooner Lee bags, HMS, Nancy,
(07:34):
off of Cape, and loaded with2000 muskets powder and mortar.
They dubbed Congress.
That's the noble train ofartillery.
Cousin, cousin, folks.
Civil smarts, feeding the light.
Congress lays down new rules onthe 28th and by the 29th Arnold
knocking on Quebec's Gates.
Back in Philly, they formed theCommittee of Secret
(07:55):
Correspondence, Ben Franklin,John Adams, the Brain Trust,
plotting Allegiance Alliances.
Same day, new Haven.
Hot Heads under Captain IsaacSears, trash Loyalist Printer,
James Tritons Press in New York.
Parading Tories like.
Captured game, defiance iseverywhere.
Whew.
November, 1775.
It's the month revolution goesGlobal Canada invasion, Navy and
(08:19):
Marines.
Birth Dun Moore's gambit,backfiring and malicious.
Proving that armed res resolvebeats empire every day time from
Boston Sea to Quebec.
Shadow focuses like you and me.
Farmers, sailors raffle riflemenwith powder in their horns and
fire in their eyes.
Here's the takeaway, folks from17 November, 1775 ain't just
(08:41):
dates and dispatches.
It's the raw pulse of why wedefend the Second Amendment,
like our life.
Depend on it back.
'cause back then they did.
Lord Meyer weighs freedom at theenslaved, but his armed
columnists, black, white, free.
Or, or fighting for it.
Who did tips the scales?
Private tears swiping prizes,militia, holding down 96.
(09:02):
Arnold Frozen marchers.
That's self-reliant, not waitingfor King's permission to bear
arms.
It's a shield againstproclamations and powder grabs
the guarantee that no admiral orgovernor dictates your liberty.
And as we barrel towards 250years of freedom, remember
that's the right to keep'embare.
It's the thread from Montreal'scapture to your front porch day.
(09:23):
Stay vigilant.
Stay armed.
Tyranny doesn't take anyholidays.
So next time we're gonna talkabout December, 1775.
Washington's winter woes moreCanada chaos, and the spark that
lights the new year.
You don't wanna miss it.
So if you're fired up, hit thesubscribe button, share this
podcast with some podcast withsomebody, let'em know what's
(09:45):
going on.
We have to continue to fight forour right to bear arms and it,
they're not gonna give up.
We got a a, a so communistsocialist running New York who's
already said we need to seizeall the guns.
So the fight's just starting andwe've gotta keep it going.
So.
Take care.
Have a great weekend and I willtalk to you later.
Well, welcome to the live shootpodcast.
My name is Jeff Dol, and I'vebeen a licensed farm dealer for
the last 18 years.
And this podcast to talk aboutall things related to Second
Amendment, as well as anythingelse going in the world, a
sports story, or anything elsethat I might find interesting.
So welcome, welcome, welcomefolks.
And, this is gonna be one of ourspecial episodes.
If you haven't if you're justjoining us we have been go
stepping back in time as weprepare for the 250th
(00:23):
anniversary of, of, of thiscountry, which will be July
2026.
And as a part of that, we'vebeen go going back 250 years for
that this particular month andwhat was going on in the
revolution at that point intime.
So we have done July of 1775.
August of 1775.
September of 1775, October of1775 and now we're about to do
(00:48):
November of 1775.
So if you haven't listened tothose previous ones, go back,
listen to'em, catch up on what'sbeen going on.
But you know, before we do didive into November, let's do a
quick look of where we've been.
So back in July, 1775, theContinental Army's forming up
around Boston, Washington.
He's pension, pennies onsupplies and the red cos are
(01:09):
hunkered down.
Across the New York, so Augustmilitias are itching for some
action.
Congress is haggling over thearmies and the fige is even
tighter now September.
There's more powder shortages.
They're staring down the Britswith grit and grit alone.
October, we've got privateersare starting to snag.
(01:29):
British supply ships foul mouthburns in British spite and Vuc
Arnold, he's kicking off andheading towards c Quebec through
Maine.
Now, revolution was not tidy.
It was a, a tidy little teaparty.
It was full of.
Brawl for Liberty, and inNovember, November's when the
stakes are starting toskyrocket.
So let's look and see what'sgoing on in November.
(01:51):
So November 1st kicks off withCongress getting the gut punch.
They word hits him, hits Philly,that the King George.
He's just ignoring their olivebranch.
He's torched it.
He calls the columnist in fullrebellion, hires Hessian
mercenaries like it's BlackFriday at the Arms Depot.
That's the Royal Middle Fingerfolks.
No more olive branches justbeing at Washington's army
(02:14):
around Boston.
Still sing, still scraping, butup north things are heating up
in Canada's campaign.
George, Richard General.
Richard Montgomery's beenpounding away at Fort St.
John on the OU River.
Remember that, what, fromOctober?
Well, on the second.
After 55 days bridge ERs, theFort Fos, like a cheap tent.
(02:34):
Boom, 500 red coat prisoners, 41cannons in American hands.
Montgomery's grinning like a foxin the hand house and he's
marching onto Montreal throughthe rain and muck.
And that's the kind of.
A bold armed push that says,we're not just defending, we're
taking the fight to him by thethird down in South Carolina,
South Carolina, loyalistsroughnecks under Patrick
(02:57):
Cunningham are ambushing patriotsupply wagons headed for the
Cherokee.
Guns and power are meant to keepthe frontier calm.
Skirmish Cities folks, butCongress, they're not sitting
idle.
On the fourth, they reorganizedWashington's army to 20,000
strong enlisting through 1776.
That's muscle built for the longhaul and the Naval Committee's
(03:17):
on fire.
They've snapped up eight moremerchant ships, aiming, arming
as men of War, Alfred Columbus,Andrew Doria names.
That scream defiance.
On the fifth, they tap EssexHopkins as the first commander
of the Continental Navy BrotherStevens on the committee pulling
(03:38):
strings.
These ain't fancy frigates.
They're armed citizens of warprivateers with the presidential
wink proving that the seas nosafe haven for tyrant.
Now November 7th, drops twobombshells that'll echo through
history.
First across the pond, BritishHouse of Commons.
Laugh off that olive branch forgood.
No reconciliation, just warhomes, but closer to home.
(04:01):
Lord Dun Maier.
He's a Virginia governor.
Issues a proclamation fromonboard the HMS fowey.
He declares martial law brandsre rebels, traders, and, and
here's the kicker.
He offers freedom to.
Any slave who grabs up a musketfor the crown, the Ethiopian
regiment's, what they call'em,freed men, fighting for the red
(04:21):
coats.
Folks, this lights a fuse underevery plantation owner,
loyalists or not, is desperationfrom dunmore, but it radicalizes
the fight.
Armed slaves versus armedmasters.
The ninth Benedict Arnold, heragtag crew down to 675.
Frost pit, frost pit, and solesafter the 300 mile main
(04:42):
nightmare, finally hits the St.
Louis River eyeballing QuebecCity.
They're half dead fromstarvation and swamp, but armed
to the teeth and howling for ashot at the bastion of British
North America, same day asskirmish at Tmore Point.
Brits raided for cattle, butColonel William Thompson's
rifleman, chase'em off likewolves from a campfire.
Washington Orders.
(05:03):
Fort Putman built right there.
Boom.
Another Thorn in house side.
November 10th, mark this one,you, Marines, Congress Green
Lights.
Two battalions of ContinentalMarines.
Seamen with Muskets.
Born at Tavern.
In In Philly.
First Commandant.
Samuel Nichols, that's the birthof the core, and we'll be
celebrating that birthday here.
(05:24):
This podcast, I'm recording onthe eighth, so in a couple days
we're gonna celebrate the birthof the core.
And if you're listening to thissometime in the future, yep.
November 10th, that's when wecelebrate the core and up in
Boston.
Privateers from Plymouth Snagtwo British supply ships,
landing the prisoners onPlymouth Rock with cheers for
American arms, but knot allsmooth on on the 12th.
(05:46):
Washington drops a hard order.
No more enlisting black troops.
Freer slave grim chapter in theFight for Liberty.
Showing the contradictions, evenheroes wrestled with still the
army's holding.
Sing Boston like a ice.
Then 13th Montreal falls.
Montgomery rolls in unopposed.
Carlton evacuates like a ratfrom a sink ship and the yank
(06:07):
sees a city plus two rivers.
It's a queen.
It's a clean sweep in Canada,opening road to Quebec.
Arnold's crew hears the news anddigs in on the planes of Abraham
demanding surrender.
McClean's like not today, butthe news is tightening mid
month.
Heats up in the down south the15th.
The Battle of Kemp's Landing inVirginia.
(06:29):
Dunmore has got 150 Redcoatloyalists and those new
Ethiopian recruits charging 200Patriot militia under Colonel
William Woodford.
Brits win a bloody scrap.
Nine Americans lost, butWoodford's buying time,
fortifying great bridge.
It's malicious steel againstRoyal de desperation.
The kind of stand that screamsthe Second Amendment 19th
(06:50):
through the 21st.
Snow campaign kicks off in SouthCarolina.
Nine six district loyalistsunder Cunningham 18 or strong
besieged 600 Patriots.
Hold up in a log forward itsavage Savages.
Old fields Colonel AndrewWilliamson's crew digs in, but
after days of Ling, they truceit out.
First real civil war flare up inthe back country.
(07:12):
Brother versus brother, musketversus musket.
And up North.
Colonel John Brown's boys ambushCarltons.
Flotilla on the floor, singingships, nabbing, general
Prescott, and 145 troops.
Carlton slips away, but it'sanother gut check for the Brits.
By the 27th, captain John Manleyschooner Lee bags, HMS, Nancy,
(07:34):
off of Cape, and loaded with2000 muskets powder and mortar.
They dubbed Congress.
That's the noble train ofartillery.
Cousin, cousin, folks.
Civil smarts, feeding the light.
Congress lays down new rules onthe 28th and by the 29th Arnold
knocking on Quebec's Gates.
Back in Philly, they formed theCommittee of Secret
(07:55):
Correspondence, Ben Franklin,John Adams, the Brain Trust,
plotting Allegiance Alliances.
Same day, new Haven.
Hot Heads under Captain IsaacSears, trash Loyalist Printer,
James Tritons Press in New York.
Parading Tories like.
Captured game, defiance iseverywhere.
Whew.
November, 1775.
It's the month revolution goesGlobal Canada invasion, Navy and
(08:19):
Marines.
Birth Dun Moore's gambit,backfiring and malicious.
Proving that armed res resolvebeats empire every day time from
Boston Sea to Quebec.
Shadow focuses like you and me.
Farmers, sailors raffle riflemenwith powder in their horns and
fire in their eyes.
Here's the takeaway, folks from17 November, 1775 ain't just
(08:41):
dates and dispatches.
It's the raw pulse of why wedefend the Second Amendment,
like our life.
Depend on it back.
'cause back then they did.
Lord Meyer weighs freedom at theenslaved, but his armed
columnists, black, white, free.
Or, or fighting for it.
Who did tips the scales?
Private tears swiping prizes,militia, holding down 96.
(09:02):
Arnold Frozen marchers.
That's self-reliant, not waitingfor King's permission to bear
arms.
It's a shield againstproclamations and powder grabs
the guarantee that no admiral orgovernor dictates your liberty.
And as we barrel towards 250years of freedom, remember
that's the right to keep'embare.
It's the thread from Montreal'scapture to your front porch day.
(09:23):
Stay vigilant.
Stay armed.
Tyranny doesn't take anyholidays.
So next time we're gonna talkabout December, 1775.
Washington's winter woes moreCanada chaos, and the spark that
lights the new year.
You don't wanna miss it.
So if you're fired up, hit thesubscribe button, share this
podcast with some podcast withsomebody, let'em know what's
(09:45):
going on.
We have to continue to fight forour right to bear arms and it,
they're not gonna give up.
We got a a, a so communistsocialist running New York who's
already said we need to seizeall the guns.
So the fight's just starting andwe've gotta keep it going.
So.
Take care.
Have a great weekend and I willtalk to you later.
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