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for Robert Griffin and John Buck.
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We're on the air, Chris,
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so we'll hold that thought.
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welcome everyone to the
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revolution 250 podcast I am
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bob allison I chair the rev
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250 advisory group we are a
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consortium of oh 75 or so
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organizations in
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massachusetts planning ways
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to commemorate the
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beginnings of american
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independence and our guest
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today is chris met matheny
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chris matheny is the
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historic site manager at
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the ohio state house long
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time historical re-enactor
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in ohio student of ohio
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history chris thank you so
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much for joining us
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Thank you.
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What an honor and a pleasure
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to be here to talk about.
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And you told us you're a
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loyal listener from Lancaster, Ohio.
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So thanks for now for finally coming on.
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I can't wait to hear and
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watch my own presentation.
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And we're going to talk
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about an episode that is very important,
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but very little known,
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the Fort Gower Resolves of
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November of 1774.
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So you're the expert.
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So let's talk a little bit
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about Fort Gower.
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Why is it important?
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Well, and I'll tell you, if we don't say,
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the particular date is so important.
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And if we don't say any,
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by the end of this podcast,
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it will be crystal clear, I think.
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Sure.
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The Fort Gower Resolves were
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signed on November 5th, 1774,
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which of course this year
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will be coming up on the
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250th anniversary of that.
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That's one of the things
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here in Ohio we wanted to
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make sure that folks knew about.
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1774 is, as you know, Professor, I'm sure,
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just full of resolves from
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the different cultures.
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But when you think of Ohio,
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the listeners might say, what?
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You know,
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more of the Ohio country is what
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we were at that particular time.
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The Fort Gower resolves came
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at the end of what they
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call Lord Dunmore's War.
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And your listeners,
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I'm sure many of them will
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know about Lord Dunmer's War.
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It was a series of attacks, retaliation,
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a back and forth between
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the Native Americans living
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in the Ohio country and, you know,
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the colonists essentially
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that are in Pennsylvania, you know,
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western Pennsylvania or
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northwestern Virginia in that area.
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a lot of back and forth.
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What got things going, of course,
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you had the Royal
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Proclamation of 1763 that
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basically George III had
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drawn a line across the
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Appalachian Mountains and
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said anything west of here
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is essentially an Indian reserve.
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That solved some problems,
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but it didn't solve all.
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Of course, hunters, settlers, you name it,
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folks were crossing that
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line continually.
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And it's a lot of back and forth.
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And it ultimately culminated
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in what became what has
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really done most of the work.
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Right.
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And now behind you,
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there's a portrait of Logan,
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who is one of the important
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figures in this.
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And Jefferson said he was
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the most eloquent speaker
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he'd ever heard of.
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And can you talk a little
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bit about Logan and what's
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his role in this?
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And you have to look very hard.
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I don't think I've ever come
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across anything negative
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written about Logan,
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and especially prior to.
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Logan had long been known as
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a friend to the settlers.
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It was really strange in
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April of 1774 that his
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family was essentially
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massacred at Yellow Creek.
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by a Virginia hunting club.
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This is under Daniel Greathouse.
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And if you read about that,
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it was certainly a story.
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Nobody deserved to have this
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happen to their family.
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But first of all, Logan.
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who had long been one of
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those greats in the Ohio
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country that was frankly welcome.
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In fact,
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that speech that you're referring
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to that Thomas Jefferson
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said was so elegant.
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He says in there that he had
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long thought about coming
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to live among the whites.
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except for the actions.
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Now,
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Logan sort of gets confused a little
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bit when he gave the speech
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because he was still
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blaming a man by the name
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of Michael Crescent for the
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attack on his home.
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And Crescent had been in a
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number of skirmishes on the frontier,
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so it wasn't crazy for
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Logan to think of that.
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But in the end,
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it turns out it was a
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fellow named Daniel
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Grayhouse in this hunting party,
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and he basically set up Logan,
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Logan's family.
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And as you might imagine,
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Logan swore revenge for the
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deaths of his family.
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It just became open warfare
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in the Ohio Bay.
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Pennsylvania,
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and again in parts of Virginia.
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Which, Lord Dunmore,
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the last royal governor of Virginia,
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who also had designs on the
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Ohio country itself,
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He saw the people he represented.
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He raised force.
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He marched into the Ohio
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country to settle this.
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What's interesting is Morgan,
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he knew that.
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More about holding the Sony.
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We know him as the Eric Boyd,
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living in the Ohio community.
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But when we think of Lord
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Dunmore's war and certainly
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from Dunmore's perspective
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and from a lot of the
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opinions of Pennsylvania,
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it's really the Shawnee
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that they ended up fighting.
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But these forces were raised.
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Lord Dunmore led one that
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kind of left Fort Pitt,
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although for a time Dunmore
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renamed it Fort Dunmore.
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Even the locals, you know,
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continued to call it Fort Pitt.
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And then there was another
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arm of the Kenyans,
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about another thousand men
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under Colonel Andrew Lewis
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that came up from across the, well,
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they didn't quite make it
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across the Ohio before they
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were attacked.
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Right, on the Kanawha.
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Right, on the Kanawha.
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And there was a big battle, of course,
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there at Point Pleasant.
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Cornstalk leading a combined force,
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a lot of Shawnee warriors,
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but they were also joined by Delaware,
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you know, the Lenny Lenape,
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some Wyandotte, of course,
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some Seneca Cayugas.
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And they made an attack at Point Pleasant.
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This is before Lewis's army
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crossed the Ohio.
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It would appear that they, you know,
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it was a
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Brilliant maneuver.
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They attacked in the morning.
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It was a fog.
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Got very close,
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but the presence was very known,
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or even known, rather.
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Some sources say a day-long battle,
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but I want to say about a fifth
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Lewis's army was destroyed in that attack.
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Before Cornstalk followed up, there was a,
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you see where there was
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like 500 men coming from,
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I think from Fort Fincastle, you know,
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fell back into the fight.
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It's an amazing battle.
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So that's, and Lord, you know,
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he sent word to Lewis.
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Lewis is really mad,
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reorganizing his army.
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But, you know,
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by the time Point Pleasant
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was taking place,
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Lord Dunmore was on his way to the fire,
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which is where Cornstalk's town.
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But, you know,
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we've gotten so far ahead
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that part of the,
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Lord Dunmore's maneuvering
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before he actually left Cortex,
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or Fort Dunmore,
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He dispatched 500 men down
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the Ohio under the command
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of Captain William Crawford.
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And that name Crawford came
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up in Ohio history.
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And if there's anybody from Ohio history,
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.
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He sent Crawford down the Ohio.
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And it was his job basically to go down.
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When you look through some
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of the letters and some of
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the research that's been done,
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it looked like, at first,
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he was going to build Fort
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Gower on the southern side of the Ohio.
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In fact,
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some of George Washington's land
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that he had in that area.
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For whatever reason,
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he decided to cross and do
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it on the north side of the Ohio,
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right at the confluence of
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what they used to call it
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the Hock Hockey.
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Today, we call it the Hockey River.
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I guess you kind of see it
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in different ways.
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But at the confluence of the
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Hockey and the Ohio River.
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And there was this point of
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land that came out at that time.
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I guess that would be a good reason.
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Maybe that's one of the
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reasons that Crawford
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decided to cross the Ohio River.
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Because there wasn't a good
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defensible spot on the southern side.
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You're on the northern side.
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So where he put this Fort Gower, which,
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by the way,
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was named after a friend of
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Lord Dunmore's.
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um uh the beat count power I
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think it became lord of the
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privy council but he was an
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old friend of dunmore's
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okay um so you know it was
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protected on two sides by
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water because it came out
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into you know the river so
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two sides uh protected by
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water landward you know
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they cleared about 28 acres
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of timber that would build
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this in the black house it
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was a small court
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Um, it could have been defended,
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never was under siege and
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it was more of a supply depot.
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Right.
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And eventually of course,
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Lord Dunmore comes down,
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meets up there at the
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Hocking with Crawford's
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force has about 1500 men.
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Battle of Point Pleasant's raging.
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They don't really have that word yet.
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Um,
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but he starts to set off into the Ohio
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country for the Shawneen town.
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Okay.
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So he's setting in,
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then he manages to make
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peace with the Shawnee at
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Camp Charlotte or Fort Charlotte.
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He did.
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Yeah.
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The Treaty of Charlotte named for his wife,
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Camp Charlotte, that he set up.
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It was about, yeah.
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He was naming everything.
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That's right.
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But they didn't have a bigger family.
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There'd be more places in
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Ohio named for Dunmore relatives.
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You would think.
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You would think.
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But it's funny how things
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are and how people .
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He made sure that,
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and I'm going to tell you,
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that Treaty of Camp Charlotte,
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one of the things that made that possible,
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and really what the Treaty
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of Camp Charlotte did was it reinforced,
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I'm going to say,
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the Treaty of Fort Stanley from like 1770,
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kind of reestablished the original terms.
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And so he could, you know,
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claim peace for that.
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But there were a number of
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Native Americans living in
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the Ohio country that
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really helped make that peace possible.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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on the pick-away planes,
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because he's got scouts too.
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He was very well aware of
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the army down in Virginia,
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so he was able to set that up.
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He knew about the forces
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coming from Fort Fincastle.
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He knew that basically he's
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going to be caught between
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these big trenches.
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So at this point,
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he's thinking more of along
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the lines of peace.
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We learned about the
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American Revolution and we
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also learned that the
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Unitas were our allies very
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much during the Revolution.
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Here in the Ohio country,
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there were a number of Delaware
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that were our allies,
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especially living in the area around .
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And I can't pronounce his name,
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so I'm not going to try.
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But he had a nickname that
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they called him White Eyes.
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White Eyes was also as the
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peacemaker for a number of .
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And he really made the
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Treaty of Camp Charlotte possible.
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Of course, one of the Native Americans
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one of the leaders that
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didn't come to the Treaty
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of Camp Charlie was John Logan,
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Keith Logan.
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But Wright did agree to dictate a message.
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One of the things you learn
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when you talk about Lord
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Dunmore's War and the Fort
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Gower Resolves and
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everything that was
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happening here prior to the
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American Revolution,
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it's kind of a who's who of here in Ohio
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and where they went after that.
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Lord Fenmore felt that he
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needed Logan's agreement
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for there to be peace in
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the Ohio country.
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So he sent three scouts to
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Logan at his camp on Congo Creek.
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And the really cool thing is, Professor,
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and you and your listeners,
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if you ever travel to Ohio,
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you can go to Logan Elm
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State Park just outside Circleville,
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Ohio.
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Unfortunately, the elm is long gone.
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They had replanted an elm from there.
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Congo Creek still flows
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right by that area.
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Two of those scouts that he sent to
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or Logan rather,
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was Simon Gertie and Simon Kenton.
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I think Kenton was known as
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Simon Butler at the time,
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and he hadn't revealed yet
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that his real last name was Kenton,
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but they're the ones that
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went in to get Logan's message.
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Some suggest,
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I've seen some other readings
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that John Gibson,
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John Gibson was a Virginia
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military officer,
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He was married to Logan's daughter,
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I believe, one of Logan's daughters.
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And some say that it was
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Gibson himself who went to
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Logan and got his speech.
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And some of that might have
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to do with the fact that, you know,
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Gertie turned trade.
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And it's hard to give credit
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for such an eloquent speech
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to the white renegade, Simon Gertie.
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Right, Simon Gertie, yeah.
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But Simon Purdy,
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he had been taken prisoner
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about the time he was 11
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during the French and Indian War.
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Of course, about seven years.
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Lived among the Seneca.
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And he later became, for the British,
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he was an interpreter to the Six Nations.
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So he was very fluent in the
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woodland language of the Ohio country.
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And there's this, you know,
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if we're gonna nerd out on
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something like this.
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The other argument I think
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is why it wasn't it,
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is in Logan's speech itself.
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We know the business about
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Michael Crescent,
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how he thought it was
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Colonel Crescent who did that.
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But he also said another thing in here.
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Can I just give you a quick reading?
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Sure, sure.
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This is what Logan said.
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We can come back to it.
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I appealed to any white man
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to say that he ever entered Logan's cabin,
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but I gave him not meat.
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That he ever came naked,
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but I clothed him.
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In the course of the last war,
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Logan remained in his cabin,
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an advocate for peace.
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I had such an affection for
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the white people that I was
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pointed at by the rest of my nation.
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I should have lived with
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them had it not been for Colonel Cressa,
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who last year cut off in
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cold blood all the relatives of Logan,
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not sparing women and children.
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Here's the thing.
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It turns out that Logan's
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granddaughter is still alive.
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But it would appear from
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when he gave this speech,
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that he was pretty much
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convinced that his entire
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bloodline was gone because
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it goes right after that.
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It says,
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there runs not a drop of my blood
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in the veins of any living creature.
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This call upon me for revenge.
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I have sought it.
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I have killed many and fully
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flooded my revenge.
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I am glad that there is a
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prospect of peace.
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on account of the nation,
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but I beg you will not
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entertain a thought that
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anything I have said proceeds from fear.
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Logan disdains the thought.
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He will not turn on his heel
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to save his life.
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Who is there to mourn for Logan?
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Not one.
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And I'm thinking that
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Captain Gibson at the time
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would have been there.
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He would have said, you know,
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let me take care of dust.
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Yeah, there's a few things there.
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that weren't directed at the time.
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I really think it was Simon Gertie,
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Simon Genton,
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they're the ones that won it.
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Interesting.
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We're talking with Chris
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Matheny from Ohio telling
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us about the episode known
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as Dunmore's War,
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which has lots of
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repercussions in Ohio and
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in the wider country.
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I just want to
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Back up for a second, Chris,
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before we get back to the
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Fort Gower resolves.
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Back in 1908,
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the Congress of the United
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States designated the
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Battle of Point Pleasant as
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the first battle of the
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American Revolution.
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I wonder if you want to weigh in on this.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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You know, that would be October 10th,
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1774.
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Gosh, the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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It's certainly...
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had a lot of the figures from .
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Yeah.
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My question always is,
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where was the Massachusetts
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delegation the week
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Congress was passing that?
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Our senator then had a PhD
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in history from Harvard.
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I wonder what Henry Cabot
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Lodge's thoughts were.
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Was this just to placate the
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West Virginians or was this actually,
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and who are we to disagree with Congress?
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I hear what you're saying.
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I mean,
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it's that First Continental
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Conference is going on, right?
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That's in September.
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That's right.
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And that is always,
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it never leaves the minds
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of those Virginians and
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those Pennsylvanians for that matter.
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They know what's going on back there.
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So that's in their minds.
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But I can't help but say,
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I'll give you 50-50 on that, Bob.
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Because a big part of Lord Dunmore's war,
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that particular fight of
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which the Battle of Point
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Pleasant is definitely part
00:19:31.035 --> 00:19:32.115
of Lord Dunmore's war.
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We've got to lay a big part
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of the blame at the foot.
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of Lord Dunmore himself.
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And it was agitating.
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Maybe not agitating himself,
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but there was a fellow that
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he employed as his agent, his land agent.
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His name was John Connolly.
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And John Connolly had an
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interesting background.
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You know,
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he was evidently quite a frontiersman.
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One of the few that had gone
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all the way down the Ohio
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at that time,
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and he had been out in the
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Indiana and the Illinois
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country at different times.
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So he had the one that's put
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in this whole Vandalia thing.
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And Dunmore makes him his land agent,
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but also puts him in charge
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of the militia at Fort Dunmore.
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Right.
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He sends him to refill Fort Dunmore.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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He puts him in charge there.
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And there's a lot of
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sinister things start happening.
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Like a delegation of Shawnee
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that had been invited to
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Fort Dunmore for peace talks.
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Mm-hmm.
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run into this militia who fire on them.
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Nobody's hurt,
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but they fire on them and then take off.
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So I think there was a constant agitation.
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I'm not saying that, you know,
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that the Shawnee didn't
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cross the Ohio and go into, you know,
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what was the Kentucky area.
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I'm not saying, but really,
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I think Dunmore as the
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Royal governor of Virginia
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and really ultimately in peace, you know,
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he really made that happen.
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So I'm going to talk about Lord Dunmore.
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Of course,
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he kind of gets hero status for
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a short time after that conflict,
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but within five months,
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the Virginians have chased
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him out onto that ship.
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Right, right.
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So Chris,
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let's get to what happens on
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November 5th at Fort Gower.
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This is an interesting moment when
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that somewhere apparently
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does want them to express
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their fealty to the crown, and they do,
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but in an interesting way.
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They do.
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They do.
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And I'll say again, if I haven't already,
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that the Fort Gower
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resolves were among many resolves.
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Certainly, you're in,
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am I pronouncing that when I say Suffolk?
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Suffolk, yeah.
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Suffolk.
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Suffolk, yes.
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Suffolk resolves, right?
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Yes, yes.
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There's the Culpeper resolves.
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There's the Halifax.
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And the Fairfax resolves, yes.
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Fairfax resolves.
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And you know,
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Virginians largely made up
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this delegation that created it.
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So maybe they had it, you know,
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in their mind when they did.
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But you're right.
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Okay.
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So finally they have peace.
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Camp Charlotte.
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Lord Dunmore's army is heading back.
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They reach and it's, to my knowledge,
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Cornstalk
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And I'm going to say her name, Nan Halima.
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Nan Halima was a Shawnee woman.
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She was a chief.
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She was a warrior.
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She was a peacemaker.
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And they kind of fought
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along to make sure that
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this force not only left the Ohio country,
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but that it also got out safely.
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So they marched back to Fort
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Gower there on the hockey in Ohio.
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Lord Dunmore.
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Pretty much he and his honorage take off.
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They head back to Fort Pitt.
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So that leaves all these
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officers and men from this army.
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And while they're at Fort Gower,
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they receive word from the
00:23:20.172 --> 00:23:21.272
First Continental Congress,
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or at least some of the
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result of the Continental Congress.
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And it's terrifying.
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I can't think of a better word for that.
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Now,
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considering that they've come off this
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victory, so to speak,
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I guess you could say
00:23:35.482 --> 00:23:38.005
ultimately it was a victory,
00:23:38.265 --> 00:23:39.625
even though we must
00:23:39.705 --> 00:23:40.807
acknowledge that Cornstalk
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and his forces did a number on Louis.
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Right.
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Right.
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So that's, you know,
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a lot of victories like that.
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Yeah.
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But they did get the treaty
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signed and they head back.
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So they're feeling good.
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And let's say.
00:23:58.423 --> 00:23:59.284
that the results,
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maybe we should say beforehand, you know,
00:24:00.904 --> 00:24:03.865
we talked about the who's who,
00:24:03.986 --> 00:24:06.288
who was this.
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There were just so many and
00:24:07.827 --> 00:24:09.828
some very colorful characters,
00:24:10.308 --> 00:24:12.769
including Daniel Morgan.
00:24:14.070 --> 00:24:15.271
And I don't know what you
00:24:15.311 --> 00:24:16.332
know about Daniel Morgan,
00:24:16.352 --> 00:24:17.593
but when I think of Daniel Morgan,
00:24:17.633 --> 00:24:19.993
I think he was quite truly
00:24:20.034 --> 00:24:20.933
a frontiersman.
00:24:21.114 --> 00:24:24.035
He certainly spoke how he
00:24:24.174 --> 00:24:25.395
felt at the time.
00:24:26.355 --> 00:24:27.557
George Rogers Clark,
00:24:28.631 --> 00:24:30.991
Daniel William Crawford.
00:24:31.751 --> 00:24:32.852
Remind me about Crawford if
00:24:32.892 --> 00:24:33.791
we don't talk about this.
00:24:33.832 --> 00:24:35.633
Michael Crescent was there.
00:24:35.932 --> 00:24:37.032
Maybe that's a reason that
00:24:37.053 --> 00:24:38.272
he didn't want to come into
00:24:38.353 --> 00:24:41.034
camp because Michael Crescent was there.
00:24:41.933 --> 00:24:43.075
Ebenezer Zane.
00:24:43.315 --> 00:24:44.994
I'm hoping these names
00:24:45.075 --> 00:24:45.994
remind you of something.
00:24:46.295 --> 00:24:47.455
We already mentioned Simon
00:24:47.556 --> 00:24:49.476
Kenton and Simon Gurdy.
00:24:49.556 --> 00:24:50.355
Adam Stevens was there.
00:24:50.375 --> 00:24:51.195
All these Virginians.
00:24:59.106 --> 00:24:59.787
decide,
00:24:59.987 --> 00:25:02.928
after hearing what's going on with
00:25:02.968 --> 00:25:04.308
the First Continental Congress,
00:25:04.848 --> 00:25:06.609
to make their own resolves.
00:25:07.289 --> 00:25:08.549
And these resolves, by the way,
00:25:08.609 --> 00:25:09.590
Fort Dower resolves,
00:25:10.270 --> 00:25:11.351
I'm sure we talked a little
00:25:11.371 --> 00:25:11.951
bit about this.
00:25:13.731 --> 00:25:15.333
They were published in the
00:25:15.373 --> 00:25:16.232
Virginia Gazette.
00:25:16.252 --> 00:25:16.292
22nd, 1774.
00:25:16.732 --> 00:25:17.374
So those of you at home,
00:25:17.653 --> 00:25:18.433
you can look that up.
00:25:24.911 --> 00:25:28.054
Make sure it's the Alex
00:25:28.193 --> 00:25:29.934
Purdy and John Dixon
00:25:30.355 --> 00:25:32.096
edition of the Virginia Gazette.
00:25:32.156 --> 00:25:32.757
I think there were two
00:25:32.797 --> 00:25:34.318
different Virginia Gazettes at the time,
00:25:34.679 --> 00:25:35.839
but that one in particular
00:25:35.900 --> 00:25:38.301
holds the Fort Gower results in it.
00:25:40.184 --> 00:25:41.325
But they had a meeting of
00:25:41.746 --> 00:25:44.126
officers under the Earl of Dunmore.
00:25:44.166 --> 00:25:45.228
Now he's gone, right?
00:25:45.827 --> 00:25:47.148
But had a meeting of
00:25:47.169 --> 00:25:48.189
officers under the command
00:25:48.229 --> 00:25:50.029
of his excellency, the right honorable,
00:25:50.089 --> 00:25:50.990
the Earl of Dunmore,
00:25:51.191 --> 00:25:53.531
convened at Fort Gower, November 5th,
00:25:53.531 --> 00:25:54.553
1774,
00:25:54.553 --> 00:25:56.634
for the purpose of considering
00:25:56.653 --> 00:25:58.755
grievances of British America.
00:25:59.615 --> 00:26:01.176
An officer present addressed
00:26:01.217 --> 00:26:03.337
the meeting in the following words.
00:26:03.417 --> 00:26:04.558
And I think this is kind of
00:26:04.578 --> 00:26:05.798
a nice preamble because of
00:26:05.898 --> 00:26:06.759
what it says in here.
00:26:07.537 --> 00:26:08.457
It says, gentlemen,
00:26:09.077 --> 00:26:10.218
having now concluded the
00:26:10.278 --> 00:26:12.239
campaign by the assistance
00:26:12.278 --> 00:26:13.699
of Providence with honor
00:26:14.098 --> 00:26:16.339
and advantage to the colony and ourselves,
00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:18.141
it only remains that we
00:26:18.181 --> 00:26:19.921
should give our country the
00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:21.602
strongest assurance that we
00:26:21.781 --> 00:26:23.942
are ready at all times for
00:26:23.982 --> 00:26:25.683
the utmost of our power to
00:26:25.723 --> 00:26:27.144
maintain and defend her
00:26:27.223 --> 00:26:28.704
just rights and privileges.
00:26:29.625 --> 00:26:31.164
We have lived about three
00:26:31.226 --> 00:26:32.205
months in the woods.
00:26:32.645 --> 00:26:33.665
This is where the bragging
00:26:33.705 --> 00:26:34.967
starts right here.
00:26:36.075 --> 00:26:37.377
without any intelligence
00:26:37.518 --> 00:26:39.442
from Boston or from the
00:26:39.481 --> 00:26:40.965
delegates at Philadelphia.
00:26:41.905 --> 00:26:43.207
It is possible from the
00:26:43.287 --> 00:26:44.326
groundless reports of
00:26:44.386 --> 00:26:45.688
designing men that our
00:26:45.788 --> 00:26:47.108
countrymen may be jealous
00:26:47.229 --> 00:26:48.609
of the use such a body
00:26:48.650 --> 00:26:49.990
would make of arms in their
00:26:50.030 --> 00:26:51.951
hands at this critical juncture.
00:26:52.392 --> 00:26:53.291
And what that means is
00:26:53.332 --> 00:26:54.133
they're assuring their
00:26:54.173 --> 00:26:55.393
friends in Pennsylvania
00:26:55.913 --> 00:26:56.773
that they're not going to
00:26:56.814 --> 00:26:59.415
come up there and .
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This is the whole business
00:27:00.276 --> 00:27:01.376
with Fort Dunmore.
00:27:01.396 --> 00:27:03.397
Yeah, it really worked it.
00:27:03.518 --> 00:27:05.179
We're not on those lands.
00:27:05.239 --> 00:27:06.179
Let us assure our friends
00:27:06.199 --> 00:27:06.920
from Pennsylvania,
00:27:07.339 --> 00:27:08.681
we're not going to attack you.
00:27:09.894 --> 00:27:13.356
That we are a respectable body is certain.
00:27:13.936 --> 00:27:15.038
When it is considered that
00:27:15.077 --> 00:27:18.439
we can live weeks without bread or salt,
00:27:19.058 --> 00:27:20.099
that we can sleep in the
00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:21.421
open air without any
00:27:21.520 --> 00:27:24.001
covering but that of the canopy of heaven,
00:27:24.902 --> 00:27:26.383
and that our men can march
00:27:26.522 --> 00:27:28.923
and shoot with any in the known world.
00:27:30.365 --> 00:27:31.766
Part of me, this is, you know, yeah,
00:27:31.826 --> 00:27:32.465
we're letting the British
00:27:32.486 --> 00:27:33.946
know we've got a lot of in here.
00:27:34.007 --> 00:27:37.167
We've got off the country.
00:27:37.588 --> 00:27:38.548
Dan Morgan, you know, he
00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:41.140
We raised the Virginia Rifle
00:27:41.681 --> 00:27:44.222
in Austin in record time to
00:27:45.063 --> 00:27:46.203
help surround the British.
00:27:46.983 --> 00:27:48.945
But I think it's also,
00:27:49.526 --> 00:27:51.027
we've got to say what it is.
00:27:51.528 --> 00:27:54.690
They have just concluded a
00:27:54.750 --> 00:27:56.131
successful campaign with
00:27:56.171 --> 00:27:57.471
what they probably feel the
00:27:57.531 --> 00:27:59.113
best fighters in the world are,
00:27:59.393 --> 00:28:00.173
which are the Native
00:28:00.233 --> 00:28:01.855
Americans that are living
00:28:01.875 --> 00:28:03.256
in Ohio country.
00:28:03.776 --> 00:28:05.596
They have survived that campaign.
00:28:07.411 --> 00:28:08.531
At this point, you know,
00:28:08.692 --> 00:28:10.955
with all due respect to the
00:28:11.017 --> 00:28:12.178
Native Americans there,
00:28:12.558 --> 00:28:14.122
this was a heck of a fight.
00:28:14.182 --> 00:28:17.807
So they're feeling, you know,
00:28:18.067 --> 00:28:19.029
they should see what we just did.
00:28:20.028 --> 00:28:21.089
Blessed with these talents,
00:28:21.150 --> 00:28:22.711
let us solemnly engage to
00:28:22.790 --> 00:28:24.212
one another and our country
00:28:24.333 --> 00:28:25.773
in particular that we will
00:28:25.874 --> 00:28:27.635
use them to no purpose but
00:28:27.655 --> 00:28:28.997
for the honor and advantage
00:28:29.096 --> 00:28:30.837
of America in general and
00:28:30.878 --> 00:28:33.421
of Virginia in particular.
00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:35.082
I'm thinking it's largely
00:28:35.122 --> 00:28:35.962
made up of Virginians.
00:28:36.564 --> 00:28:37.624
It behooves us then for the
00:28:38.144 --> 00:28:39.205
action of our country that
00:28:39.226 --> 00:28:39.987
we should give them our
00:28:40.027 --> 00:28:41.667
real sentiments by way of
00:28:41.708 --> 00:28:44.529
resolves at this very alarming crisis.
00:28:45.290 --> 00:28:46.633
So then it goes on about
00:28:47.032 --> 00:28:48.013
drew up this committee.
00:28:48.034 --> 00:28:52.018
Do you want me to resolve real quick?
00:28:52.077 --> 00:28:53.239
It's about a paragraph.
00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:54.019
Sure.
00:28:54.140 --> 00:28:54.401
Yes.
00:28:55.382 --> 00:28:55.721
All right.
00:28:55.761 --> 00:28:56.803
These are the results.
00:28:56.843 --> 00:28:58.263
These are the four results.
00:28:59.244 --> 00:29:00.787
Resolve that we will bear
00:29:00.826 --> 00:29:02.127
the most faithful allegiance,
00:29:02.608 --> 00:29:04.530
His Majesty King George III,
00:29:04.830 --> 00:29:06.313
while His Majesty delights
00:29:06.373 --> 00:29:08.474
to reign over a brave and free people.
00:29:09.161 --> 00:29:09.840
that we will,
00:29:09.881 --> 00:29:11.221
at the expense of life and
00:29:11.342 --> 00:29:12.623
everything dear and valuable,
00:29:13.083 --> 00:29:14.943
exert ourselves in support
00:29:15.064 --> 00:29:16.523
of the honor of his crown
00:29:16.943 --> 00:29:19.445
and the dignity of the British Empire.
00:29:19.945 --> 00:29:21.205
So I'm going to stop right there.
00:29:21.866 --> 00:29:22.767
Because, yes,
00:29:22.906 --> 00:29:23.826
this is still at this
00:29:24.667 --> 00:29:26.429
critical juncture where we still think,
00:29:26.528 --> 00:29:27.608
you know what, the king,
00:29:27.669 --> 00:29:29.670
if he knew what was going on in America,
00:29:30.170 --> 00:29:30.851
he'd say, no,
00:29:31.431 --> 00:29:33.251
those are my loyal citizens.
00:29:33.672 --> 00:29:36.472
And this is really directed at Parliament.
00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:40.241
This is about Parliament.
00:29:41.582 --> 00:29:42.582
This is the good part.
00:29:43.721 --> 00:29:45.222
But as the love of liberty
00:29:45.682 --> 00:29:46.962
and attachment to the real
00:29:47.083 --> 00:29:48.722
interests and just rights
00:29:48.843 --> 00:29:50.723
of America outweigh every
00:29:50.824 --> 00:29:51.983
other consideration,
00:29:52.644 --> 00:29:54.084
we resolve that we will
00:29:54.144 --> 00:29:55.704
exert every power within us
00:29:55.785 --> 00:29:57.585
for the defense of American
00:29:57.625 --> 00:29:59.586
liberty and for the support
00:29:59.665 --> 00:30:01.506
of her just rights and privileges.
00:30:02.340 --> 00:30:06.023
not in riotous or tumultuous manner,
00:30:06.064 --> 00:30:07.345
but when regularly called
00:30:07.424 --> 00:30:08.865
forth by the unanimous
00:30:08.925 --> 00:30:10.267
voice of our country.
00:30:12.689 --> 00:30:15.070
Fortunately, there's one more bit on here.
00:30:15.806 --> 00:30:16.645
I say unfortunately.
00:30:17.266 --> 00:30:19.287
They had known that subsequent events,
00:30:19.326 --> 00:30:20.106
they would have removed it.
00:30:20.586 --> 00:30:20.846
It said,
00:30:20.906 --> 00:30:22.247
resolved that we entertain the
00:30:22.287 --> 00:30:24.188
greatest respect for his excellency,
00:30:24.448 --> 00:30:26.107
the right honorable Lord Dunmore,
00:30:26.468 --> 00:30:27.107
who commanded the
00:30:27.167 --> 00:30:28.188
expedition against the
00:30:28.248 --> 00:30:29.689
Shawnee and who we are
00:30:29.749 --> 00:30:31.249
confident underwent the
00:30:31.308 --> 00:30:32.648
great fatigue of the
00:30:32.729 --> 00:30:34.169
singular campaign from no
00:30:34.209 --> 00:30:35.789
other motive than the true
00:30:35.869 --> 00:30:37.250
interest of this country.
00:30:37.829 --> 00:30:39.930
And this was signed by order
00:30:40.009 --> 00:30:41.290
in behalf of the whole corps,
00:30:41.770 --> 00:30:43.191
Benjamin Ashby, clerk.
00:30:44.701 --> 00:30:46.083
That business with Lord Dunmore,
00:30:49.486 --> 00:30:51.648
I did read about one of the
00:30:51.669 --> 00:30:53.029
things about Lord Dunmore.
00:30:53.170 --> 00:30:55.472
You know, we might think, oh, Lord Dunmore,
00:30:55.873 --> 00:30:58.496
you know, he's, you know, a pompous fool.
00:30:58.536 --> 00:31:01.838
But it turns out he was this Scottish,
00:31:02.019 --> 00:31:05.803
you know, laird and quite, you know,
00:31:05.942 --> 00:31:06.584
athletic person.
00:31:07.488 --> 00:31:11.349
and marched with those forces, frosty.
00:31:11.369 --> 00:31:12.730
Oh, yeah.
00:31:12.750 --> 00:31:13.671
He'd also been out there in
00:31:13.691 --> 00:31:14.491
the woods with them.
00:31:14.511 --> 00:31:16.112
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:17.272 --> 00:31:18.653
I don't think you could call
00:31:18.733 --> 00:31:19.953
Dunmore a coward.
00:31:20.755 --> 00:31:22.214
No, no.
00:31:22.335 --> 00:31:23.715
And I think that was, you know,
00:31:24.215 --> 00:31:25.856
impressed upon the men who
00:31:25.896 --> 00:31:27.317
got to see him in action.
00:31:27.498 --> 00:31:30.479
This might be, you know, an eventual enemy,
00:31:30.499 --> 00:31:32.941
but he had to give it up to him.
00:31:33.300 --> 00:31:35.221
He wasn't, you know, some, you know,
00:31:36.403 --> 00:31:37.023
Shrieking Violet.
00:31:37.204 --> 00:31:39.849
He was very much.
00:31:41.473 --> 00:31:42.296
We're talking with Chris
00:31:42.316 --> 00:31:45.082
Matheny from Ohio telling us about
00:31:45.648 --> 00:31:47.549
Lord Dunmore's War and the
00:31:47.730 --> 00:31:49.369
Fort Gower Resolves and
00:31:49.410 --> 00:31:51.230
this extraordinary event
00:31:51.270 --> 00:31:52.090
here on the frontier of
00:31:52.131 --> 00:31:53.971
Virginia and just thinking
00:31:54.031 --> 00:31:55.413
as you were talking about
00:31:55.613 --> 00:31:57.673
Fort Gower and getting news
00:31:57.733 --> 00:31:59.733
from the east it was only
00:31:59.794 --> 00:32:01.894
in May of 75 when a group
00:32:01.934 --> 00:32:03.435
of guys out in what's now
00:32:03.496 --> 00:32:05.096
Kentucky get news of the
00:32:05.175 --> 00:32:06.277
battles of Lexington and
00:32:06.317 --> 00:32:07.116
Concord and they named
00:32:07.156 --> 00:32:08.917
their settlement Lexington because of
00:32:09.357 --> 00:32:10.659
hearing of this event in the
00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:13.820
east it's extraordinary
00:32:13.901 --> 00:32:15.721
connections between all of
00:32:15.801 --> 00:32:16.863
these events and we see
00:32:16.903 --> 00:32:19.724
here in this uh outpost in
00:32:20.164 --> 00:32:22.086
ohio they're hearing about
00:32:22.487 --> 00:32:23.646
this news and they are
00:32:23.807 --> 00:32:26.308
speaking for themselves but
00:32:26.328 --> 00:32:26.910
it's really a way that
00:32:26.950 --> 00:32:28.310
shows us the transcendence
00:32:28.351 --> 00:32:30.771
of these ideas that from
00:32:32.901 --> 00:32:35.602
And all those fellows that were there,
00:32:35.642 --> 00:32:37.182
those fellows, I call them, you know,
00:32:37.303 --> 00:32:38.824
those original personages
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from the revolution.
00:32:42.965 --> 00:32:46.346
Daniel Morgan wrote later,
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I found this wonderful quote.
00:32:49.669 --> 00:32:50.249
He wrote,
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he was writing to General Calpins
00:32:56.551 --> 00:32:58.051
in a letter to Richard Henry Lee.
00:32:58.932 --> 00:32:59.472
He wrote,
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To give you my history during the war,
00:33:02.449 --> 00:33:05.271
I must begin in 1774.
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I thought at first he was
00:33:06.113 --> 00:33:07.074
going to write a poem.
00:33:10.396 --> 00:33:12.479
During the war, I must begin in 1774.
00:33:16.643 --> 00:33:18.244
When I served an active and
00:33:18.345 --> 00:33:21.288
hard campaign under Lord Dunmore, again,
00:33:21.307 --> 00:33:22.489
a compliment to Dunmore.
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Right, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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campaign under Lord Dunmore
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against the Indians.
00:33:27.922 --> 00:33:29.342
After we had beat them and
00:33:29.402 --> 00:33:31.042
reduced them to order and
00:33:31.063 --> 00:33:32.103
were on our way home,
00:33:32.603 --> 00:33:34.423
we heard at the mouth of the Hocking,
00:33:34.703 --> 00:33:36.084
again, he's calling it the Hocking.
00:33:39.085 --> 00:33:40.845
On the Ohio that hostilities
00:33:40.924 --> 00:33:42.286
were offered to our brethren,
00:33:42.346 --> 00:33:43.385
the people of Boston.
00:33:44.130 --> 00:33:45.250
We, as an army,
00:33:45.470 --> 00:33:46.590
immediately formed
00:33:46.651 --> 00:33:48.270
ourselves into a society,
00:33:48.951 --> 00:33:50.071
pledging our honors to
00:33:50.132 --> 00:33:51.892
assist the Bostonians in
00:33:51.972 --> 00:33:53.292
case of a serious breach,
00:33:53.752 --> 00:33:57.253
which did occur in April next year.
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So this really is this cause
00:34:03.470 --> 00:34:07.030
that is uniting these people in this,
00:34:07.790 --> 00:34:08.751
across these colonies.
00:34:09.552 --> 00:34:10.592
Just before we move on,
00:34:10.612 --> 00:34:12.432
if I'm not mistaken,
00:34:12.512 --> 00:34:14.152
the Treaty of Camp
00:34:14.193 --> 00:34:15.393
Charlotte essentially says
00:34:15.494 --> 00:34:16.494
that the whites will stay
00:34:16.534 --> 00:34:17.875
on this side of the river,
00:34:17.974 --> 00:34:19.835
the Indians will have the other.
00:34:19.914 --> 00:34:22.916
Is that, am I misunderstanding the terms?
00:34:22.956 --> 00:34:23.956
That's correct.
00:34:24.936 --> 00:34:26.197
And, you know, they get the,
00:34:28.987 --> 00:34:30.427
The Kentucky lands.
00:34:30.487 --> 00:34:33.289
The Kentucky lands becomes
00:34:33.389 --> 00:34:39.050
more of a settler friendly, I guess.
00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:41.931
Still some hunting rights on
00:34:41.971 --> 00:34:42.590
the other side.
00:34:44.911 --> 00:34:47.492
Kentucky really becomes a
00:34:47.572 --> 00:34:48.472
county of Virginia.
00:34:49.771 --> 00:34:51.291
Kentucky County,
00:34:51.351 --> 00:34:53.193
that's George Rogers Clark
00:34:53.293 --> 00:34:55.632
and others work together.
00:34:55.672 --> 00:34:57.134
They go to Williamsburg.
00:34:59.110 --> 00:34:59.929
They met with,
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I believe that's Patrick
00:35:01.070 --> 00:35:03.251
Henry at that point was the governor.
00:35:03.971 --> 00:35:04.251
Right.
00:35:04.271 --> 00:35:07.931
Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:35:10.592 --> 00:35:10.753
Chris,
00:35:10.773 --> 00:35:12.512
you're also working now on a short
00:35:12.552 --> 00:35:14.753
history of the founding of Ohio.
00:35:14.793 --> 00:35:14.954
You,
00:35:15.393 --> 00:35:16.873
and I think this is part of your work
00:35:16.934 --> 00:35:17.974
as the site and historic
00:35:18.014 --> 00:35:19.994
site manager at the Ohio state house,
00:35:20.034 --> 00:35:21.235
where you specialize really
00:35:21.275 --> 00:35:24.115
in telling this story of Ohio.
00:35:24.135 --> 00:35:25.516
So what can you tell us then about the,
00:35:26.315 --> 00:35:27.356
your work on the founding
00:35:27.396 --> 00:35:28.617
of Ohio as a story?
00:35:30.490 --> 00:35:32.012
And with that, if I don't mention this,
00:35:32.172 --> 00:35:32.512
again,
00:35:33.614 --> 00:35:35.235
our foundation has received a grant
00:35:35.317 --> 00:35:36.677
from Revolution 250 Ohio.
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:41.141
They funded this publication,
00:35:41.181 --> 00:35:42.461
which when complete,
00:35:42.961 --> 00:35:44.882
we will free to our visitors,
00:35:44.963 --> 00:35:46.862
which is something we're
00:35:46.902 --> 00:35:47.704
happy about that.
00:35:47.724 --> 00:35:48.903
So we're going to publish as
00:35:48.943 --> 00:35:50.585
many of these and get the
00:35:50.625 --> 00:35:52.125
information out.
00:35:52.605 --> 00:35:53.786
It can't be the most
00:35:53.985 --> 00:35:55.166
in-depth because it's got
00:35:55.186 --> 00:35:57.567
to cover from basically, you know,
00:35:57.626 --> 00:35:58.768
begin with Lord Dunmore's
00:35:58.807 --> 00:36:00.148
war and work its way up to
00:36:00.228 --> 00:36:02.208
Ohio State free.
00:36:03.028 --> 00:36:03.349
Yes,
00:36:03.509 --> 00:36:05.750
the American Revolution in the Ohio
00:36:05.829 --> 00:36:07.429
country is covered.
00:36:09.985 --> 00:36:13.070
It's a dark and bloody ground.
00:36:14.771 --> 00:36:15.132
It is.
00:36:15.492 --> 00:36:16.974
If the Kentucky grounds were
00:36:17.494 --> 00:36:18.817
pretty much hunting grounds
00:36:19.016 --> 00:36:22.681
for the Shawnee, for the Cherokee,
00:36:24.784 --> 00:36:25.666
that live in new york the
00:36:25.726 --> 00:36:26.788
ohio country is where a lot
00:36:26.807 --> 00:36:28.208
of native americans are
00:36:28.329 --> 00:36:30.492
living right um so you've
00:36:30.552 --> 00:36:32.114
got the shawnee you've got
00:36:32.153 --> 00:36:34.335
the the wyandotte the miami
00:36:34.416 --> 00:36:37.358
the delaware the yuga and
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:39.601
and others are in this area
00:36:39.981 --> 00:36:41.965
and the the thing you learn
00:36:42.445 --> 00:36:43.606
about the ohio country
00:36:44.244 --> 00:36:46.827
during this war is largely,
00:36:46.947 --> 00:36:48.528
besides some Delaware,
00:36:49.108 --> 00:36:51.072
some Shawnee also wanted
00:36:51.132 --> 00:36:51.893
peace for a time.
00:36:51.952 --> 00:36:53.253
Juan Halima argued for peace.
00:36:53.414 --> 00:36:55.036
Hornstock wanted to continue
00:36:55.056 --> 00:36:57.759
to have peace with the Americans.
00:37:00.041 --> 00:37:03.666
White Eyes, a treaty of Fort Pitt, 1778.
00:37:06.157 --> 00:37:07.398
that is really considered
00:37:07.418 --> 00:37:08.858
the first treaty between
00:37:08.898 --> 00:37:10.440
the United States and a
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:13.340
Native American group comes out of,
00:37:13.460 --> 00:37:16.262
you know, that's negotiated at Fort Pitt.
00:37:16.862 --> 00:37:18.623
It was never ratified by Congress,
00:37:19.043 --> 00:37:20.664
but it's still, it was a treaty.
00:37:21.844 --> 00:37:22.804
And the Continental, of course,
00:37:22.824 --> 00:37:24.405
I think they made him a
00:37:24.505 --> 00:37:26.626
colonel in the Continental Army for this.
00:37:27.226 --> 00:37:28.447
So there were attempts at peace,
00:37:28.507 --> 00:37:29.387
but at the same time,
00:37:29.407 --> 00:37:30.449
you've got the British up
00:37:30.628 --> 00:37:31.768
at Fort Detroit.
00:37:34.184 --> 00:37:34.905
And basically,
00:37:34.965 --> 00:37:36.646
what they are doing is
00:37:36.766 --> 00:37:38.088
trying to recruit the
00:37:38.148 --> 00:37:39.610
Native Americans living in
00:37:39.630 --> 00:37:41.811
the Ohio country to attack
00:37:41.871 --> 00:37:43.992
the settlements that are in
00:37:44.813 --> 00:37:47.115
the county area and in
00:37:47.215 --> 00:37:48.496
Western Pennsylvania.
00:37:49.438 --> 00:37:50.579
So a lot of times,
00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:51.940
that's what's taking place.
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.163
Expeditions get put together in Detroit.
00:37:55.563 --> 00:37:57.384
They'll stop at some of the
00:37:57.423 --> 00:37:58.764
Native American towns along
00:37:58.786 --> 00:37:59.885
the Sandusky River.
00:38:03.717 --> 00:38:04.516
and they'll just work their
00:38:04.617 --> 00:38:07.998
way south and east and attack from there.
00:38:09.298 --> 00:38:10.619
One chapter in this book,
00:38:12.139 --> 00:38:15.141
I start out with attack, counterattack,
00:38:15.702 --> 00:38:17.702
retaliation, and revenge,
00:38:18.282 --> 00:38:21.344
because that's exactly, you know,
00:38:21.443 --> 00:38:23.445
sums up what's going on in the Ohio.
00:38:24.204 --> 00:38:27.025
We've got Henry Hamilton at Fort Detroit.
00:38:27.045 --> 00:38:28.286
Do you remember Henry Hamilton?
00:38:28.706 --> 00:38:32.447
He was the hair buyer, they called him.
00:38:33.027 --> 00:38:34.827
You know,
00:38:34.867 --> 00:38:36.628
he paid Native Americans to bring
00:38:36.708 --> 00:38:40.670
back the scalps of the settlers.
00:38:41.570 --> 00:38:42.971
And, you know, it became a wicked,
00:38:43.451 --> 00:38:45.891
wicked business here in the Ohio country.
00:38:47.032 --> 00:38:49.813
All sides taking advantage.
00:38:49.833 --> 00:38:56.074
That's where you got George Rogers Clark.
00:38:56.255 --> 00:38:58.876
Expeditions were mounted to
00:38:58.956 --> 00:39:00.577
go against Fort Detroit.
00:39:01.532 --> 00:39:03.114
that never really completely
00:39:03.173 --> 00:39:04.894
got off the grid.
00:39:05.135 --> 00:39:08.936
A lot of it's money, it's manpower.
00:39:09.016 --> 00:39:09.336
You know,
00:39:09.356 --> 00:39:10.757
I can't send you these forces
00:39:10.797 --> 00:39:13.858
because we need them to guard this area.
00:39:15.820 --> 00:39:16.980
Political issues with the
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:18.101
different commanders.
00:39:20.762 --> 00:39:23.422
Plus, the real focus, let's be honest,
00:39:23.563 --> 00:39:25.284
is what's going on back east,
00:39:26.164 --> 00:39:27.025
in your neck of the land.
00:39:31.050 --> 00:39:32.311
General McIntosh did
00:39:32.351 --> 00:39:33.871
establish Fort Lawrence,
00:39:34.813 --> 00:39:36.934
and really Fort Lawrence
00:39:36.994 --> 00:39:39.896
was a fortification built
00:39:39.916 --> 00:39:43.097
to hold supplies for an eventual attack,
00:39:43.478 --> 00:39:44.978
ideally on Detroit,
00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:47.800
which never gets off the ground.
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:52.561
You've got operatives at this point,
00:39:52.581 --> 00:39:53.702
you've got Simon Gertie,
00:39:54.123 --> 00:39:56.804
who has himself for the British.
00:39:57.905 --> 00:39:59.166
He's working on a number of
00:39:59.186 --> 00:40:00.585
war pieces of rain
00:40:01.186 --> 00:40:02.588
throughout the Ohio country.
00:40:04.909 --> 00:40:06.570
It'll go from very active
00:40:06.670 --> 00:40:07.471
with these different
00:40:07.550 --> 00:40:10.251
campaigns to quiet or like
00:40:10.291 --> 00:40:12.052
a deceptive illness over
00:40:12.092 --> 00:40:12.994
the Ohio country.
00:40:13.768 --> 00:40:16.670
You have the Battle of Piqua in 1780.
00:40:16.710 --> 00:40:18.492
This is George Rogers Clark
00:40:18.532 --> 00:40:20.333
after he's been out in
00:40:20.532 --> 00:40:23.614
Kaskaskia and Sins.
00:40:23.835 --> 00:40:27.657
He eventually captured Henry Hamilton,
00:40:27.737 --> 00:40:29.798
sent him in chains to Williamsburg,
00:40:31.661 --> 00:40:33.222
but they never got to Detroit.
00:40:34.782 --> 00:40:37.322
There was Captain Henry Byrd's expedition,
00:40:37.342 --> 00:40:38.702
a British expedition down
00:40:38.764 --> 00:40:41.923
and attacked two Kentucky suns, you know,
00:40:42.025 --> 00:40:44.425
Ruddell Station and Mike Station.
00:40:44.465 --> 00:40:46.706
They brought cannon with
00:40:46.746 --> 00:40:48.447
them so that both of them
00:40:48.867 --> 00:40:50.467
basically fell without a fight.
00:40:50.907 --> 00:40:53.648
And then I think it was 350
00:40:53.648 --> 00:40:54.788
troops marched back to
00:40:54.807 --> 00:40:56.208
Detroit that suffered mightily.
00:40:56.248 --> 00:40:59.650
And then Clarks called back to Detroit.
00:41:00.449 --> 00:41:01.550
That's the thing that never
00:41:01.610 --> 00:41:03.672
goes away from the Ohio country, Gary.
00:41:04.411 --> 00:41:04.871
Amazing.
00:41:05.293 --> 00:41:05.413
Chris,
00:41:05.432 --> 00:41:06.532
we're going to have to have you back
00:41:06.572 --> 00:41:07.914
to tell us more about the
00:41:07.954 --> 00:41:09.494
war in the Ohio country.
00:41:09.574 --> 00:41:10.914
I can't wait to hear more
00:41:10.954 --> 00:41:12.115
about these expeditions,
00:41:12.135 --> 00:41:13.255
these counter-attacks,
00:41:13.797 --> 00:41:15.117
what a bloody ground it was.
00:41:15.577 --> 00:41:17.018
Thank you so much for joining us.
00:41:17.677 --> 00:41:18.219
Thank you.
00:41:18.778 --> 00:41:20.699
Again, it's been quite a pleasure.
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:22.420
I got to tell you this though,
00:41:22.561 --> 00:41:23.420
this is the part we say,
00:41:23.601 --> 00:41:24.461
something we should know.
00:41:24.782 --> 00:41:25.802
Remember I told you 250 years ago,
00:41:25.802 --> 00:41:30.896
250 years ago, November 5th, 2020, well,
00:41:30.896 --> 00:41:31.597
1774 to 2024, my friend,
00:41:31.617 --> 00:41:32.518
that is election day.
00:41:38.811 --> 00:41:39.351
Interesting.
00:41:40.313 --> 00:41:43.875
Yes, and I know all the things, right?
00:41:44.556 --> 00:41:48.659
But when you vote that day,
00:41:49.278 --> 00:41:50.420
think about the Fort Gower
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.202
results that took place 250 years ago,
00:41:53.842 --> 00:41:55.543
the establishment of American liberty.
00:41:55.603 --> 00:41:57.003
What could be more American
00:41:57.184 --> 00:41:58.364
liberty than voting?
00:41:59.125 --> 00:42:00.085
Voting, exactly.
00:42:00.186 --> 00:42:00.626
Thank you.
00:42:00.706 --> 00:42:01.126
Thank you.
00:42:01.186 --> 00:42:01.586
That is,
00:42:01.686 --> 00:42:03.668
and the reason we can is because
00:42:03.748 --> 00:42:05.650
of what these guys resolved
00:42:05.750 --> 00:42:06.469
at Fort Gower.
00:42:07.351 --> 00:42:07.550
Thank you.
00:42:08.106 --> 00:42:11.550
So we've been talking with Chris Matheny,
00:42:11.789 --> 00:42:12.951
who is a historic site
00:42:13.010 --> 00:42:14.992
manager at the Ohio State House,
00:42:15.132 --> 00:42:16.494
and they've been talking
00:42:16.514 --> 00:42:18.817
about all things Ohio in the revolution.
00:42:18.836 --> 00:42:20.157
So thank you so much for joining us,
00:42:20.237 --> 00:42:20.478
Chris.
00:42:20.498 --> 00:42:21.719
It's been great talking with you.
00:42:21.739 --> 00:42:22.920
Thank you.
00:42:24.452 --> 00:42:25.873
And I want to thank our producer,
00:42:25.913 --> 00:42:26.773
Jonathan Lane,
00:42:26.813 --> 00:42:30.673
the executive director of Revolution 250,
00:42:30.673 --> 00:42:32.434
and who also is our man
00:42:32.474 --> 00:42:33.635
behind the curtain here,
00:42:34.835 --> 00:42:35.795
pulling the knobs and
00:42:35.876 --> 00:42:36.956
figuring us questions.
00:42:37.336 --> 00:42:39.056
And I want to thank our many listeners.
00:42:39.077 --> 00:42:40.077
You know, initially, Chris,
00:42:40.097 --> 00:42:41.038
we thought we'd have folks
00:42:41.097 --> 00:42:42.838
in and around Boston listening in,
00:42:42.858 --> 00:42:43.378
and we do have
00:42:44.036 --> 00:42:46.438
Good listenership here in the Bay State.
00:42:46.478 --> 00:42:47.418
And every week I thank
00:42:47.478 --> 00:42:48.860
people in various places
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:49.740
who are tuning in.
00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:53.163
So here in Massachusetts, Lynn and Quincy,
00:42:53.202 --> 00:42:53.923
Massachusetts.
00:42:53.963 --> 00:42:54.384
And by the way,
00:42:54.403 --> 00:42:55.525
if you're in one of these places,
00:42:55.565 --> 00:42:56.967
send Jonathan Lane an email,
00:42:57.027 --> 00:42:59.047
jlane at revolution250.org.
00:42:59.409 --> 00:43:00.148
They'll send you one of our
00:43:00.208 --> 00:43:03.251
new Revolution 250 posters
00:43:03.371 --> 00:43:06.213
or some other Revolution 250 gear.
00:43:06.373 --> 00:43:09.036
So Quincy and Lynn in Massachusetts,
00:43:09.137 --> 00:43:10.737
Lancaster in Ohio.
00:43:11.157 --> 00:43:11.739
Thank you, Chris.
00:43:12.579 --> 00:43:13.498
and new cumberland
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:14.900
pennsylvania franklin
00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.141
tennessee rio de janeiro
00:43:17.501 --> 00:43:19.420
and sydney and australia
00:43:19.942 --> 00:43:21.581
monroe new york and in
00:43:21.641 --> 00:43:23.943
florida live oak new smyrna
00:43:23.963 --> 00:43:26.824
beach st albans vermont and
00:43:26.884 --> 00:43:28.603
in west virginia the great
00:43:28.643 --> 00:43:30.324
town of huntington and in
00:43:30.824 --> 00:43:31.625
the commonwealth of
00:43:31.664 --> 00:43:33.106
virginia martinsville
00:43:33.346 --> 00:43:34.606
suffolk fredericksburg
00:43:34.666 --> 00:43:36.027
christianburg thank you for
00:43:36.047 --> 00:43:37.086
all for listening in all
00:43:37.126 --> 00:43:39.047
places between and beyond
00:43:39.860 --> 00:43:41.490
And now we will be piped out
00:43:41.711 --> 00:43:42.637
on the road to Boston.