October 1775

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In this episode we continue looking back 250 years as we prepare for country's 250th birthday.  Today we look at the events of October 1775 and how they impacted the revolution.

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Episode Transcript

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Well, welcome to the Live Sheetpodcast.

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My name is Jeff Dol and I'vebeen a licensed firearm dealer
for the last.
18 years.
And this podcast, we talk aboutall things related to the
commitment, anything else goingin the world, a sports story, or
anything else I might findinteresting.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
So today we're cranking up thetime machine again, and we're
going back to, to startreviewing the America's 250th

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birthday as we approach it.
So if you've been following thispodcast we've done episodes on
what was happening in July.
Of 1775.
August, 1775, September, 1775.
And today we're gonna look backto see what all was going on in
October, 1775.
So if you haven't listened tothose other ones, go catch up.
We will do a brief recap here ofwhat's been going on and up to

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this point in the revolution.
And then we'll talk a little bitabout what's happened in
October.
So you know, if we look back ina quick recap.
The of what was this powder kegthat was building it's just been
six months since the shots heardaround the world at Lexington
Concord on April 19th as farmersand men staring down King George
professionals killers provingthat armed citizens.

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Are the ultimate check ontyranny.
By June, the bloodbath thatBunker Hill showed the world
that Americans wouldn't breakeasy even if they ran outta
powder.
Washington arrived in Cambridgein July, turning a mob into the
continental Army while Congressfired off an olive branch as a
kind of a hail Mary.
Basically uses kindling Aug.
August saw the siege of Boston,grinding on smallpox, loyalist

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spies, whispering the shadows inSeptember, whispers of an
invasion from Canada, plotscrushed in Philly, and the
Congress banning slaverecruitment, highlighting the
messy evolving fight forOctober.
The colonies are united in rage,but fractured in fear.
The British are blockading portsstarring out the rebels and
treating the Atlantic like attheir own personal moat.

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But here's the Second Amendmentthread we pull today.
These weren't just soldiers.
They were armed citizens.
Militia privateers.
Frontiersmen who turned p plowshares into swords because no
government was handling ourprotection.
That self-reliant power.
Power is the heartbeat of 1775 amonth of burnings, bombardments
breakthroughs that screamed.

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We will defend our own.
So let's kick OC October with aslight win for the home team.
On the second British supplyship loaded with 1800 barrels of
flour for the red coats inBoston.
Gets duped by a crafty, craftyNew Hampshire fisherman, and he
pilots it straight into the jawsof colonial battery at the
pesca.
River and boom.
Ports mouth, fishermen andgunner's hall in the prize.

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It's a small array, but it showshow everyday arms, locals think.
Musket toting watermen.
Were already choking themilitary supply lines.
No standing army needed.
When your neighbors have riflesand grid, you know, go to the
third and.
Rhode Island's delegates at theContinental Congress drop a
bombshell.
They say Build us a Navy.
It's the first formal pitch fora national fleet formed from the

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blood of coastal raids.
By the fourth Congress is anoverdrive.
They form a committee, BenjaminFranklin, Thomas Lynch and
Benjamin Harrison to ride up toWashington's camp in Cambridge.
Their mission scope out thesiege, rally the troops, and
push for Boston captured byChristmas.
Now things are starting to getrugged.
On the sixth Benedict Arnold'sragtag Expedition four oh oh men

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slogging up the Kennebec Rivertowards Quebec hit Norwich Walk
Falls.
They're hauling boats over landsupply rotting in the rain.
It's a brutal preview of what'sgonna be ahead in Valley Forge,
but these guys are volunteersarmed with the resolve and
whatever flintlocks they couldcarry back in Philly.
A Lolas plot unravels Dr.

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John Kiley's.
Junior's letters to London getintercepted spilling British
intel.
The crowd goes wild.
Riots fan lemon, and he's hauledoff.
See the pattern.
Armed diligence crushes thesnakes in the grass.
October 8th was a tough call forthe general's ban ban African
Americans free or enslaved fromthe ranks due to shortage ban.

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It's a staying on the currentcause, but Congress doubles down
on the 23rd.
We'll revisit how that falls'cause Liberty's fight was and
is imperfect down South, SouthCarolina.
Governor Laura William Kawellbolts to a warship, a British
warship after a plot to arm 600Native Americans.
Against the columns, blows up,fled like a rat, leaving

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Charleston to the Patriots.
Now mid month heats up on, onthe 13th after day's debate.
Congress bursts that continentalnavy we talked about.
They Okay.
Converting merchant ships intowarships, building two new ones
and snapping up the Katy andMinerva.
A marine committee Silas Dean,Christopher Gadson.
John Langdon.
Get the nod.

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This isn't just boats, it'sarmed liberty.
Protecting power crude by thethank folks who defend their
horse, their horse with muskets.
October's dark turn hits on the17th.
British warships Rose.
And Margarita Shell eth Maine.
Today's Portland for nine hoursafter local snub and ultimatum
to surrender arms.
Captain Henry Moett turns to thetown to Ash.

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400 building squits 15 shipsburned landing parties with Bay.
It's finish the job.
It's outrage fuel New England'sHall for how for revenge.
And, and it radicalizes fencesitters.
The British thought that firewould break spirits instead, it
forged still.
And tying that back, that is whythe founders enshrined the right
to to arms.
So now, so no admiral candictate terms to free.

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The 24th through the 27th theBattle of Hampton, Virginia, the
old dominion's first clash LordDunman Tory Flotilla shells the
town.
Tries the land and raisesNorfolk, but Col.
Colonel William WoodfordWoodford's Rifleman cracked
shots from the militia.
Driving back America.
Snag a British tender, spiketheir guns and walk away
unscathed.

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Zero losses on our side.
That's precision fire folks.
Folks.
The second amendment in action.
We closed the month on the 30thwith two punches in Quebec.
Quebec's, battle of Long, longOil Guy Carlton's, 800 Brits and
Allies tried to break through toFort St.
John's, but get shredded by SethWarner's Green Mountain Boys.
They were retreat across the St.

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Lawrence tails tucked and Arnoldlimps into the settlements
buying corn for the skeletons ofa force back in Congress.
The Navy's official, a 36 gunand 20 gun frigate on the way
committee expanded with JohnAdams and the heavy hitters, the
seeds of old iron sides areplanted.
So October, 1775 wasn't glory orgore alone.

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It was defiance in the flames offoul mouth ingenuity on the high
seeds in the unyielding march ofarmed citizens who wouldn't
kneel.
From private here, schooner torifleman at Hampton this month
hammered a home away.
Why The Second Amendment isn'toptional.
It's a shield against the barbombardment and betrayal.
And as we hurdle towards 2026,big Bash.

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Remember the revolution wasn'twon by Kings or Congress, but by
the folks like you and me.
Ready to shoot if pushed Nextmonth, we'll crack November,
1775.
Arnold's, Quebec Gamble,Montgomery's, thunder, and more
twists on the seeds.
So grab your history books, yourAR from the range and join us.
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Stay armed, stay free, and Godbless America.