Hour 2: The Battle of Bunker Hill

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly show.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of the
Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Monday, and it's gonna
be a wonderful hour because here's what's on tap for
this hour. First of all, we're gonna do what we've
always done and we'll always do. Start of the second
hour on the show, we read a medal of honor citation.

(00:36):
On Mondays, we honor an American hero, we honor his deeds,
we remember his name, and I again want to encourage
you to do this in your own life, with your children,
with that team, you coach, with whatever. So that's a
good thing. Here's what else is a good thing. Doing history.

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I'm a history People who listen to the show for
a long time know that on occasion, I would say
every month or two, I will come up with a
history story and I'll just do history, usually in the
second hour of the show. Sometimes it stretches over several days.
I'll do the history of something. I'm gonna talk history.

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No more politics. It's want to step out of it
for a little bit, do a little history. And that
is about to happen in honor of our two hundred
and fiftieth birthday, but it's going to have to wait
until after Medal of Honor Monday. And this medal of
honor goes to a Gary Michael Rose born in Watertown,
New York born October seventeenth, nineteen forty seven. He in

(01:44):
case you're wondering, this took place in Laos and he
you'll see Special Forces medic in there. And in case
you're wondering, yes, mac V SAG. Whenever you see one
of these in it it was Cambodia or Loos. You
can generally assume that gentleman was probably doing very dangerous
things behind enemy lines. So let's find out what Gary did.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey, honoring those who went above and beyond its Medal
of Honor Monday.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sergeant Gary Michael Rose distinguished himself by acts of gallantry
and intrepidity at the risk of his life, above and
beyond the call of duty while serving as a Special
Forces medic with a company sized Exploitation Force, fifth Special
Forces Group, first Special Forces between the eleventh and fourteenth

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of September nineteen seventy By the way, pause, sorry, I
will explain what I assume that company sized force is
after this is done. Sergeant Rose's company was continuously engaged
by a well armed and numerically superior hostile force deep
in enemy controlled territory. Enemy B forty rockets in mortar

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rounds rained down while the adversary sprayed the area with
small arms and machine gun fire, wounding many and forcing
everyone to seek cover. Sergeant Rose, braving a hail of bullets,
sprinted fifty meters to a wounded soldier's side. He then
used his own body to protect the casualty from further

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injury while treating his wounds. After stabilizing the casualty, Sergeant
Rose carried him through the bullet ridden combat zone to
protective cover. As the enemy accelerated the attack. Sergeant Rose
continuously exposed himself to intense fire as he fearlessly moved
from casualty to casualty, administering life saving aid. A B

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forty rocket impacted just meters from Sergeant Rose, knocking him
from his feet and injuring his head, hand, and foot.
Ignoring his wounds, Sergeant Rose struggled to his feet and
continued to render aid to all to the other injured
soldiers during an attempted metavac, Sergeant Rose again exposed himself

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to enemy fire as he attempted to hoist wounded personnel
up to the hovering helicopter, which was unable to land
due to unsuitable terrain. The metavac mission was aborted due
to intense enemy fire, and the helicopter crashed a few
miles away due to enemy fire sustained during the attempted extraction.
Over the next two days, Sergeant Rose continued to expose

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himself to enemy fire in order to treat the wounded,
estimated to be half of the company's personnel on the fourteenth.
On September fourteenth, during the company's eventual helicopter extraction, the
enemy launched a full scale offensive. Sergeant Rose, after loading
wounded personnel on the first set of extraction helicopters, returned

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to the outer perimeter under enemy fire, carrying friendly casualties
and moving wounded personnel to more secure positions until they
could be evacuated. When he returned to the perimeter to
help repel the enemy until the final extraction helicopter arrived.
As the final helicopter was loaded, the enemy began to
overrun the company's position, and the helicopter's marine door gunner

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was shot in the neck. Sergeant Rose instantly administered critical
medical treatment aboard the helicopter, saving the marine's life. The
helicopter carrying Sergeant Rose crashed several hundred meters from the
evacuation point, further injuring Sergeant Rose in the personnel on board.
Despite it to him, this guy, despite his numerous wounds

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from the past three days, Sergeant Rose continued to pull
and carry unconscious and wounded personnel out of the burning wreckage,
then continued to administer aid to the wounded and to
another extraction helicopter arrived. Sergeant Rose's extraordinary heroism and selflessness
above and beyond the call of duty were critical to

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save numerous lives over that four day period. His action
are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service
and reflect great credit about himself the first special forces
in the United States Army. Dang, that's not too shabby. Okay.
So I wanted to touch on something before we get

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into history really quickly, because maybe if you've been paying
attention or you're nerding out on this MACVSOG talk, maybe
your eyebrows raised a little bit when I read something
that said a company sized exploitation force. Well, that doesn't
make sense. I just got done telling you last week,

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in fact, one week ago to the minute, probably about
how these SOG teams, you know, ten twelve men, two
or three Americans and then ten Indigenous people that so
company sized. What's that? Well, I would say the main
That's probably not fair, but I'm gonna say the main anyway,

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because I've had enough books on it. It sure seems
to be the main. The main thing. The main group
of guys in mac v SG were recon teams, recon teams,
and those are the ones usually named after states, not
always you know, Recon Team Idaho, Recon Team Iowa. Those
are you know, the ten twelve, thirteen man Those are

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small recon teams. That was a big part of macv SAG.
There was another part of mcv SG and they most
definitely had the cooler name. Hatchet Force is what it
was called. Yes, like I told you, much cooler name.
What did they do? They if there was something? Okay,

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so a recon team goes in and they see, okay,
there's a bunch of there's a big ammo dump here,
there's a bunch of stuff here, there's a bunch of
stuff there we twelve men. We can't handle blowing all
this stuff up or or destroying all this stuff. It's
too much. We don't have enough equipment on us. We
don't have enough men can We can't do that. If

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there was a big job, you would call in hatchet force.
Hatchet force was simply a bigger version of the smaller
recom teams, company sized elements, you know. Again, a mixture
of what we were just talking about, these super stud
Green Beray Navy seal types mixed in with all kinds

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of highly trained indigenous troops and they would go in
in force to do and I can't give you specifics
because there were so many different things they did to
do whatever big job there was. So if you ever
hear about Yo Laos, Cambodia, and there were a lot
of men back behind enemy lines ninety nine percent of

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the time, that is going to be hatchet force, all right. Again,
super studs, very dangerous, just like anything else. Absolute beasts,
all right. Now, I cannot count how many requests I
got for a some sort of an American Red, White,

(09:09):
and Blue history story as we go into the two
hundred and fiftieth birthday, which is enormous I'm I honestly,
I feel blessed if I make it that far to
be alive for our two hundred and fiftieth birthday, that
is very, very special. I hope you understand and appreciate
how special it is that we are in a country
that is about to turn two hundred and fifty years old.

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And when you look back over the history of the country,
there are all sorts of, you know, high points in
every country has some low points, things like that. But
when you look at the birth of our nation, as
we try to separate from England, when we fight a revolution,
we have a constitution, we have the different states and
stuff like that. When you look at the Revolutionary War,

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there are parts of it that just jump off the
page at you of, oh my gosh, we almost lost
it all. If this had gone not our way, I
don't know that we are the United States of America
today two hundred and fifty years later. Maybe this never

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even existed. The story we are about to tell is
one of those stories unbelievably inspirational. You might even get
choked up at some point in time. I did next
Jesse Kelly Backcian. It is the Jesse Kelly Show. On

(10:36):
a wonderful Monday's. If you have any questions, you have
any comments, you're welcome to fire those off Jesse at
jesse kellyshow dot com as the email address Jesse at
jesse kellyshow dot com. Now we'll get back to politics
in a little while next hour. We're going to get
back to politics at some point, but we're not doing

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it anymore of that. Now, let me ask you something,
do you know? I guess I should ask this question? First?
Have you ever heard of the state of Maryland as
being the Old Line State? You ever heard of that before?
Doesn't matter if you haven't, most people haven't. Don't feel stupid.
You should know that Maryland is known as the Old

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Line state. Why well, you can either cheat and look
it up right now, or you can just stay tuned
and you will find out. It is quite a tale.
Let's rewind, oh the way back? You know what we're
talking about here, the seventeen hundreds. What is happening? Why
is it happening? Little Revolutionary war kickback. I'm not going

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to do the whole war, obviously, we're just doing a
couple of little things on it. But the United States
of America was obviously a British colony, British British colonies,
but it was a British colony. What kind of people
came over here? This is going to matter. These are
a lot of people who wanted one economic opportunity. They

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were kind of stuck in a very classed British system,
almost a cast British system. They wanted economic opportunity and
they wanted freedom of religion. Now what does that mean,
because of course everybody is abused at today and that
means that, well, we have to have a voodoo tempo
on the street corner. That's not at all what they

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were talking about back then. There were an are so
many different denominations of Christianity back then, and we probably
now this may be you, but we probably don't relate
to this as much. So many of them hated each other,
hated each other. It's weird because you look back and
you think, well, you believe most of the same stuff.

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Hatred like this, deep hatred, and nations, most definitely England.
They would choose one and then you weren't allowed to
do yours. No no, no, no no, this is the one.
Would you like to be burned at the steak. No, no, no, no,
you don't get to switch. So we had people coming

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across the ocean to settle down at a very dangerous,
inhospitable place for the chance at economic opportunity, for the
chance at religious freedom, worship how you want. Now, this
is the reason I'm bringing this up is it's gonna
actually come into play in various parts in this story.
The people who got here. Let's say you're a Puritan.

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That's what you believe. There were a lot of those,
by the way, it was all of them. Let's say
you're a Puritan. That's that's your's your that's your brand.
You're a Puritan, or you're a Quaker, or you're whatever.
When you get here, you would usually you would cross
with others. But even if you didn't, you would know, Hey,
where are the Puritans hanging out? Where are they at?

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That's where I'm going. When you got here, you would
go settle in Puritan area, Quaker area, you see what
I mean. You would go find your version of Christianity,
and that's the colony in which you would settle. Now,

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that caused some tensions. Here's why the colonies just call
them states for not I don't want to keep calling
them colonies. Do you understand how it turned out in
the end. There were colonies at this point in time,
but they often had trouble with each other, because again,
this was an era where even tiny that you would

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view as tiny religious differences were the end of the
world for these people. So it wasn't all harmonious. Hey,
pull out your Bible, let's read some job. No no, no, no,
no no that there were tensions between the colonies, all right,
no matter what, though we were making it work. Then
there was a war, and this war it really was

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the spark that kicked off the Revolutionary War. Before the
Revolutionary War, there was what is known as the French
and Indian War. Maybe your teacher was a big namby
pammy and didn't want to say that word, so we
called it the Seven Years War. That's also acceptable. But
there was a big war fought between the French and

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the British. And there's a lot to it. But what
you need to know is a pretty obvious point. This is, hey,
who's going to be supreme in this brand new colony
over here? Who is going to be the big dog?
France and Britain have always been at each other's throats. Anyway,
this wasn't exactly new. They just found a new continent
to fight on. Okay, they fought over here. Now that

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war was long, inexpensive. Wars are extremely expensive. There are
a few things that can drain the treasury like a
long drawn out war. At this point seventeen hundreds, late
seventeen hundreds. Yes, Britain is the superpower on the planet.

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There's nobody that's really a close second at this point
in time. But they're getting overstretched, they're getting strained. You
love to say, if you're a brit you love to
say the sun never sets on the British Empire. It
sounds really good, right, Hey, we have colonies everywhere. You

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know how difficult it is, especially in the age of sail,
to maintain, protect, provide for colonies everywhere. It starts to
tax the empire, it starts to strain the treasury. It's very,
very difficult. The Brits square off with the French. They

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end up winning that whole war, which is long and
drawn out. But after that, the King of England he
looks at the balance sheet and these colonies are costing
a lot of money. We just had to fight a
seven War. We lost all these men. We gave up
all this money, and in part we did it to

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guard our colonies. But that also means we regarding the
people who live in them, shouldn't they pay for all that.
That's when the problems start. Now, that'll lead us into
where we're going. Before we do that, I know you
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be back the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. On a wonderful, wonderful Monday. It's been a
medal of Honor Monday. We're doing history right now. Little
we did a little pre revolutionary war stuff just to
kind of get everybody caught up on what led to
well this next part. The Brits fight this long war,

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the French and Indian War. They win, but it was
expensive and the Brits now they have other concerns all
over the planet that are pulling troops, pulling money. They
need money, and America was looking after seven years of war.
America was looking like an expensive investment. And so the King,

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the powers that be in England said hey, you colonials,
you need to pay me in the form of taxes.
Of course you need to pay me. You defending you
drain the treasury. Now you need to pay up. This
was an unbelievable toxic mixture. There are sometimes look, nobody

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likes taxes, but sometimes it can be extra extra of agitating.
Here's a pause, little side history story. The Japanese in
World War Two. They were a huge slapping, punching and
hitting culture within their own culture. In the military, you

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would slap or punch somebody under you. That was how
military discipline was instilled. It was just part of their culture.
You slap, you punch, you slap, you punch, you slap
you. It was it was the norm. Okay, fast forward to
their occupation of the Philippines. Filipinos, big Spanish history there, big,
you know, macho, proud culture, Filipinos and generally wonderful people.

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You slap a Filipino, he's never going to get over it.
He will dream about killing you your entire life. The
Japanese kept slapping the Filipinos and it created this horrible
resistance that the Filipinos used to fight back. Okay, again,
sometimes things are just a bad mix. King of England
asides the Americans need extra taxes, you need a sugar

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stamp act, all these other things. Well, this is already
a country of rugged individualists who want to escape the
yoke of tyranny. There already people who are carving out
a life in a brand new place. They don't have

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tons of money anyway. Lots of these people were getting by,
you know, a paycheck to paycheck, an ancient version of
paycheck to paycheck. They were not going to accept being
taxed like this, and taxed without any any say in
the matter at all. Their own elected governments, all these

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colonies had their own elected governments. Their own elected governments
had no say. The King just said, hey, pay me
all right, so you already get it. Boom. Now we
end up with a problem. Now we end up with
a revolution which brings us to and this is not
what our story is going to be about. But you
absolutely have to tell this story, at least part of it,
before you can get to the other one. The Battle

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of Bunker Hill. What was about old Bunker Hill? The
British occupied Boston. Remember the British, as you already know,
most powerful navy in the world at the time by
a mile. There's nothing better than having a great navy.
It's just it's just not, as much as it pains
me to say it, nothing better than having a great navy.
Boston is a port city. Britain takes Boston. Your ships

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can come and go. It was really important for them
to have Boston. We knew it was important for them
to have Boston. We didn't want them to have Boston.
So they are in Boston and the Americans decide to
surround the heights around Boston. Okay, we occupy I should
say the heights around Boston. This wasn't just Bunker Hill,

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if I have to be a detailed nerd. Most of
the fighting actually took place on Breed's Hill, but we
don't have to. But I'm just gonna call it Bunker
Hill for simplicity's sake. All Right, So we are in
the heights around Boston. The Britz are inside. What is
our plan here? Well, first we have to talk about
the makeup of our forces, and I'll come back to

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this a couple times. We don't really have professional soldiers.
We have guys who are They have kind of all
the basics of being a soldier. But we have farmers.
And that's not to make it look like these guys
were out there nancing through the garden to be a farmer.
Now and certainly back then, meant you could shoot, you

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could work. You were strong as an ox. I mean
to be a farmer. You're primed to be a soldier,
prime to be a soldier. But still you're a farmer.
We have frontiersmen, great hunters. Okay, so we can shoot,
we have strength, but we are not a well disciplined,
cohesive army yet at this point in the war. And

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remember when I talked earlier about the differences the colonies
had with each other. Now as we're forming, trying to
form what looks like an army, a continental army, now
we're having problems. We have units who won't take order
from other units. Hey, you're under that guy. Nope, I won't.

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I heard he's from Massachusetts. I'm never gonna that. This
is what it was. Okay, it was a problem. Now
let's talk about our leadership. Our troops were, like I said,
good shots. They did not have the best equipment in
the world, the most equipment in the world. We were
not a wealthy place yet our guys to this point,
most of them didn't even have bayonets for our rifles.

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We didn't have the best stuff. Yet, well, we had
good shots, hard workers. We had by all accounts excellent
officers at this point. All right, we were well led.
The troops themselves may have been a ragtag is a
little harsh, but they have been a little ragtag, but
we had excellent officers. Plan is, occupy the heights, lay

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siege to Boston so we can take it back from
the British. Well, this doesn't prove to be that effective because,
as I just pointed out, Boston is a port city.
We the Colonials we had no navy to speak of whatsoever.
The Brits had the most powerful navy in the world.
So how are we going to starve out the city
of Boston when they can just bring chips in and

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bring ships out. And that's not getting us anywhere. But
the Brits have a problem, you see a problem with
us being there. No, we can't starve them out. But
the Brits very experienced military. I just talked about a
seven year war that just got done fighting. The Brits
are looking at us on the heights above Boston and
saying to themselves, Okay, they don't have big heavy guns

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cannons in there yet, but if they do, we are
in very serious trouble. Because obviously firing a cannon down
into a city. You're defenseless. Everything's made of cord wood.
You're done. Okay, So we need to get these Americans
off the heights. How do we do that? Well, the Brits,

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everyone talks, and we can discuss this as well. How
we were limited, and we were certainly limited. The amount
of troops we had, the amount of equipment we had.
We were limited. But the Brits powerful as they were
because of the other interests they had around the globe,
and because financially they weren't what they were. The Brits

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didn't have endless men either. If you're a British commander,
you can't go back to England every month and say
give me more troops. You're going to get in trouble.
They're going to look at you and say, buddy, these
people need troops over here, and these people need troops
over here. I know what you have is what you have.

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Go beat these colonials with the troops we have given you.
This was me saying the Brits didn't have an endless
supply of troops either. They had to deal with what
they had. So they're looking at us in the heights
and they don't want to just go charging because you
know what we've been doing again, we had excellent commanders

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digging in. What's that look like? Well, you take a
hilltop like Breed's Hill, Bunker hill. So I said, I
wasn't gonna say breeds Hill again, bunker hill. You take
a hilltop like that, give the guys a bunch of shovels,
six feet walls. They'll dig what looks like a hole
with six feet walls around it. Looking down the hill,

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the Brits are looking up at that and thinking to themselves, Okay,
how many men am I going to lose? Charging up that?
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So the Colonials, they're dug in on Bunker Hill above Boston,
around Boston. The Brits they can't have these Americans just
parked up there. The Americans are gonna bring in heavy guns.
The Americans are gonna run them out of Boston, which

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ended up happening. We'll get to that in a minute.
So the Brits decide on this, Hey, we don't have
to go charging up the hill. Why don't we just
try to counter siege the Americans on the hill. We'll
just surround them, try to starve them out a little bit.
They tried this. It just didn't work, and it certainly

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didn't work fast enough. So okay, I guess we're gonna
have to take our troops and we're gonna have to
charge up the hill and run these guys out of
Bunker Hill. We're going to have to take troops and
run them at a fortified, elevated position. The Brits were
not stupid. They understand this was going to be somewhat costly.

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They tried the best they could to mitigate the losses
with a naval bombardment. You know, you have the greatest
navy in the world. You want to use it. So
they started taking their ships as close as they could
to Bunker Hill and tried to cannonball them. They didn't reach.
It wasn't enough. So now these guys are on top

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of Bunker Hill unmolested. All right, well whatever, we're the
British Army, the finest in the world. Line them up
and go up to the top of the hill. The
Americans were again untrained militia mostly, and it took great leadership,
great officers to kind of hold them together. But they

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knew how to shoot. If you are carving out a
living in the untamed wilderness of the United States of
America at this time, unless you are purely a city dweller,
and most of these guys were not, you know how
to shoot. If you're a farmer, you have to shoot
a hunter, you have to shoot frontiersmen out there trapping,

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you have to shoot. We could shoot. We started mowing
these Brits down as they are running up this hill.
And to their credit, Brits were very, very brave. They're
dropping like flies, but they're still coming. They have to
pull back, regroup, Still come, they have to pull back, regroup,
still come. We are dropping Brits. Finally, the Brits get

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up to the top of the hill. And remember when
I told you we weren't well supplied. We didn't even
have bayonets. For the most part. The Brits did have bayonets.
Hand to hand fighting at the top of Bunker Hill,
our men die. Remember, these men are the reason, the
part of the reason why we could to celebrate two
fifty these men die or are captured and whoo, okay,

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the Brits have Bunker Hill. All is well, right, not all.
The Brits are looking at their losses from that day
and they are absolutely horrified. Like I said, they may
have had more troops better supplied then we did, no
question about it. The supply was not endless. They're looking

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at stacks and stacks of dead red coats on the
side of this hill and they were just flabbergasted. How
horrified were they. A lot of people don't know this.
The Brits they marched troops off to a separate location
and re enacted Bunker Hill time and time again as

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training to make sure they could do this again without
losing as many men. That's how big of a deal
Bunker Hill was for them. There's actually a there's actually
a great quote from one of the British generals after this,
and this is his quote quote. A few more such
victories would have shortly put an end to British dominion

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in America, saying, if we keep winning like this, we're
gonna it's over. We're gonna lose. Well, then it kind
of goes from bad to worse for the Brits. Remember
that whole thing they were concerned about about us putting
big guns up that overlook Boston. Yeah, George Washington did
exactly that. He brought in big guns, parked him in

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the heights, and the bride said, all right, we're out,
you can have it. They loaded up and they took off,
and we took back Boston. This was an incredible, incredible
early victory for the Americans in this war to take
back Boston. But the Brits are obviously not done. They're
not down and out. Boston wasn't really great for them anyway.

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Here's why this part can be a little hard to
under hard to it's hard to cheer for this part.
But we have to talk about honest history, right. There
were pockets of the colonies that were hardcore pro revolution,
screw this, no more tyranny. And there were parts, significant
parts of the colonies that were known as loyalists. They

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did not want a revolution, they wanted a king. They
wanted to remain loyal to the British king. They thought
anything else was treasonous. And this was remember I was
talking about how different the colonies were. It was very, very,
very location based. The problem with Boston in fact, Massachusetts

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in general was this was the birthplace of the Revolution.
This is where people really hated the British king. This
is where they were hanging in in effigy every night
in the streets outside of a bar. Boston was not
where you wanted to do this. If you were the Brits,
you didn't want to park it there. But you know
where you did want to park it New York City, Manhattan,

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for lack of a better way to put it, but
that whole area. It provided a lot of things to
the Brits, which we can get into, but one of
the main things it provided was it was loyalist heaven.
That is the place where the Brits were loved. They
were welcomed as heroes. Not just the snooty dorks in

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the city either, I'm talking people in the countryside. George
Washington was having a nightmare trying to get information. You know,
he would have a courier taking information, critical information or
supplies from point A to point B. As soon as
you're traveling through New York, some freaking loyalist farmers gonna
shoot him and take this stuff. For the prints, we

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were having a nightmare in New York. New York was
built for the Brits a couple different reasons it was
built for the Brits. As we go into this, one
loyalist already said that two, they have a huge port.
It's easy if you're not some admiral or some logistics expert,
to kind of forget how important ports are and have

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always been. If you've never been to New York, it's fine,
use your imagination, pull up a map. It's a huge
port city. If you have the finest navy in the world,
and that's what you're going to use to supply your troops,
to move your troops around, you're going to look at
New York City and you're going to say to yourself, oh, yes,

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that's what I want. And one other thing they had.
You'd have to pull up a map to look at this.
If you don't want to, that's fine, But go look
at the Hudson River. Just look at it. In case
you don't want to look at it, just know that
it's running north and south right beside Manhattan. If the
Brits control New York with their navy, they control the Hudson.

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They split the revolution into big, big deal that will
bring us to the rest of our story tomorrow. Before
I get to the rest of our story, well, actually,
I'm not going to do that till tomorrow, so forget that.
I want to talk to you about America. I bet
you're full of patriotism now, aren't you. I bet you're

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