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The Revolution

DaveNay

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Has anyone been watching the series on The History Channel called "The Revolution"? Tonight was the second part, and so far it is absolutely excellent. High quality filming and narration telling the story of the American revolution from it's very beginnings with the Stamp Tax act of 1765. If you can start the series later tonight (encore showing) or next week, I highly recommend it.
 
Thanks Dave, I'll try to catch it for sure.

I believe it was also the History channel showing a series called "The Presidents". This series gets 4 stars from me. Very informative.
 
Dave, we did watch it last night. My wife is the history buff in the family, and she thought it started a bit slow. But we both watched it and I know I learned a few things.

Did you catch Washington the Warrior about a week ago? It was all about the chronological rise of George Washington's military career. Quite interesting, he was basically a failure who survived. Survival got him promoted. But he was very bright and learned from his mistakes.
 
B_Skurka said:
Did you catch Washington the Warrior about a week ago? It was all about the chronological rise of George Washington's military career. Quite interesting, he was basically a failure who survived. Survival got him promoted. But he was very bright and learned from his mistakes.
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I did not see that. I'm sure it will be repeated though. Did you catch the comment on last nights show where they said that George Washington as a young officer was responisible for the death (either him personally, or one of his men) of a Frenchman, and thereby may have started the entire French-Indian war? :pat:
 
I did catch that part, it also strikes me that quite a bit was mentioned about that incident in the Washington the Warrior show. I'm going from memory, but I believe the killing/murder of the French officer was as attributed to the hand of the Indian Chief who was with Washington and that the French officer was killed AFTER defeat. His head was reportedly crushed in by a tomohawk and the Indian Chief then celebrated by pulling out the brain out of the Frenchman's head . . .
 
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