he's not at brandywine.hink the senior colonel of the brigade, colonel john stone is likely commanding the brigade. i can't 100% prove that, but this is my best guess. if you're into these details, these are the regiments of the brigade. the other is commanded by a french officer, commander brood home de borre. two sort of odd units in this brigade, the german regiment was made up of german settlers from pennsylvania and maryland. the idea behind this regiment was to counteract the use of german troops by the british army. it's kind of stupid because this is one regiment and the british had dozens of german regiments helping them. that was the idea behind the recruitment effort. the other regiment is made up of french canadians. during the failed canadian campaign earlier in the war, a lot of french canadians, french catholics that were anti british rule, british government, they were disgruntled after the end of the french and indian war were recruited to served the american cause. because they're not from

of the brandywine. i honestly don't know if this was a wise decision because what's going to happen you'll find out in a second but this is the order he gets. so, element of both john sullivan's division and nathaniel green's division will cross the brandywine and engage elements of the british army. it's just starting to escalate. skirmish fire, increased artillery fire. it's never going to blowup into a major fight. was ordered to cross the brandywine with my division and attack on the left while the army down here crossed below to cross the right. timothy the army general will confirm this and was satisfactory concluded only part of the enemy's army was on the other side of chad's ford so elements of the army do cross the river and start to engage. just as it starts to heat up and potentially escalate into a major engagement, another report comes in to sullivan, this time from major joseph spear of the militia who came this morning from a tavern called martins i will explain in a second, he came from

. ♪♪ >>> next, on american history tv, author michael harris discusses the 1777 battle of brandywine misconceptions surrounding general john sullivan's role in the battle. the office of historic alexandria, in partnership with emerging revolutionary war, hosted this talk and provided the video. in 55 minutes, national park service historian mark malloy talks about several myths surrounding the 1776 battle of trenton, including whether or not the german mercenary soldiers were really drunk during george washington's attack. in an hour and 50 minutes, lonny bunch, secretary of the smithsonian institution, and ken burns discuss the complex challenge of telling america's story. >> all right. it's my pleasure to introduce our last speaker, michael harris has worked for the national park service here in virginia, also in new jersey, and at brandywine battlefield. he's conducted numerous tours, which i've had the pleasure of taking a few of brandywine battlefield and germantown. his second campaign, germantown, was released in 2020. michael is a graduate of the

a few which are really simplified and they're ok but there are some brandywine, long island, saratoga, they're phenomenal. and then some of the other really off the wall books. they're so good. >> trying to look across the room at my rev war books. >> and in early 2000 or pre-2000's but derrick beck's series on igniting the american revolution is -- and i don't know if you've had the chance to read. a two-volume series basically on the prelude into the american revolution. and igniting and i'm trying to bring up the other title because it's missing the war before independence. >> that's cool. >> two-volume series and almost read like fiction. and realize that you get to the footnotes or the end notes at the end of the book and oh, it's done. those -- the type of books. >> what's the author's name? >> derrick beck. >> daryk beck. >> great guy. the work for independence. bringing it up to 1776. because the questions -- that's always baffled me is obviously that oh, well, we just started a war. how did they become patriots and so forth? spending years at george washington's berth place n

brandywine germantown. was that valley forge does the the march down to charleston's cat? i mean probably end like braveheart where you know, these all guys all get captured or whatever, but you know, if you have you been talking to jim tomb i've been talking about this idea. i think any 250th film i would love to see if i'm sure there will be some but i'd also love to get that dynamic of kind of back to travis's presentation of like that kind of where loyalties lie and how you figure that out? i think there's a lot that can be said, you know, we we automatically are like, oh, yeah the british they were the bad guys and we won and that's fine. but there's so much more to it than that and and that would be really interesting to explore into a deep dive into like a band of brothers type series because you can really explore that. yeah, yeah. no, it's gonna say early on i booked there. i read the i got into reading kenneth roberts, you know robin arms rundle and then i stumbled on his book of all over wiswell about a loyalist. what a great book. i mean he takes a little he ta

you know, personally that's where i think like the places, being able to go to the tavern, go to brandywine battlefield, go to the places where the actual history happened, is great because you actually go there and learn from the site and from people who are knowledgeable about the importance of these places and that history that often times is kind of blown through in school or classrooms, you know, teachers have all sorts of competing interests in lots of different subject matter and lots of different things. acknowledging. >> i'll tell you, i think in light of the time constraints and curriculum constraints and all that stuff, i think the best thing that a history teacher can do or an english teacher or whatever, but history teacher what we're talking about right now is to ignite an interest in a lot of kids, a couple kids, you know, one kid, that's -- if you can do that, it means they go on and look at stuff on their own. that's phenomenal. i think at its best, history, again the best of all possible worlds, history will not only give you an idea of our history or world history, but li

through would be the third virginia regiment, which saw action in new york, trenton, princeton, brandywine, germantown was at valley forge, does the march down to charleston, probably ends like "braveheart" where these guys all get captured. >> have you been talking to jim todd? >> i've been talking about his idea. >> i think any 250th film i would love to see -- i'm sure there will be some. i would also love to get that dynamic of kind of harking back to travis' presentation of that kind of where loyalties lie and how you figure that out. i think there's a lot that can be said. you know, we automatically are like, oh, yeah, the british, they were the bad guys and we won, and that's fine. but there's so much more to it than that. and that would be really interesting to explore and do a deep dive into a band of brothers type series because you could really explore that. >> yeah. yeah. >> early on i got into reading kenneth roberts and i stumbled on his book of oliver about a loyalist. what a great book. he takes him from boston all the way down to the carolinas. and you get a view for being

to close this out welcome michael with general john sullivan, the battle of brandywine. it's put in the bio, and supposed to say go caps because you're a philly fan. but as we know watching the capitals, they're not going anywhere. but our wizards in washington or plain the 76 years. we will just go ahead and have nba competition. which i think you are going to come out on top of. but for those that are going to watch michael i had the recommend both his germantown book which we will put the link to and brandy wine which is speaking about this afternoon. michael, i appreciate you being here. we will go ahead and get started. >> all right, when i agreed to do this might book wasn't out yet, but then covid hit. everything got pushback. otherwise i'd probably be talking about germantown. so you're going to get some brandy wine. so that is why i'm doing brandy wine, not the new book. but why did i wait this book? i did work there. that's not the only reason. when i got hired there back in 2005 i went down and look to the files. there was really no research. and there was onl

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