it was not only in the interests of ordinary british colonials in colonies such as virginia that were at stake, but also the interests of a land company such as the ohio company that wanted to expand settlement and do so in a way that was profitable. and acquire land and legal title from the crown, bargain with native peoples and then bring on setlers to establish a profitable enterprise. well, of course, the colony of virginia nech 17in 1753 decideso sends a message to the french in the ohio country. we know who the governor sends, governor of virginia, robert din widie at the time. and he sends our young hero, george washington all of 22 years old, right? and just a young colonel of militia and he goes on a mission westward everywhere virginia to the ohio country and all the way north to the lake erie to notify french officials there who have established forts, who have hundreds of men now in the ohio country that this territory by right belongs to britain and not to the king of france. and of course, washington was an emissary here. he was not coming so much as a soldier. he was ac

several of the british colonies send delegates to albany in the colony of new york to confer together. that's called the albany congress. one of the delegates is benjamin franklin. franklin representing the colony of pennsylvania believed as others did that the colonies would have to work together. that is the british colony, which did not have a history of working very well together or very strong ties among themselves. the colonies were custom apart from new england. the new england colonies would work together but the colonies to the south would operate more or less on their own individually. the albany congress where delegates of several colonies met in 1754 discussed how they could cooperate more effectively together. the plans did not bear fruition as benjamin franklin tells the us. no colonial congress or grand council, as franklin conceived, developed from the albany congress. nevertheless, franklin's idea, which he shared with others of drawing the colonies more closely together, under british rule, so they could form a common policy in front against the french. it was very i

-- but rather to send them to the british colonies and to various british colonies, to scatter them so they would never pose any, quote, danger to britain again, and, of course, many historians would question whether they posed a significant danger where they were living in the first place, given that most wanted to be simply neutral. that was the position. the point is that they were shipped to the mainland colonies from massachusetts, to south carolina, and -- and virginia didn't even want the 1,000 acadians that the british shipped to them. they said we don't want these poor people. we don't want to support them, so the british shipped those to england and then to france, those 1,200 people. they shipped the 3,000 here to france, but of those 3,000 in 1758, 1,658 died in crossing the atlantic. ships going down at sea or of malnourishment and disease and exposure. eventually, of course, some of these refugees will make their way to louisiana and become the people we know as the cajuns from their ancestral home in acadia from which they were expelled. and they will come to louisian

what did he say to the british colonial representative? basically he said, you, the governor of virginia and the governor of canada are now quarrelling about lands in the ohio country that belong to us, belong to the native people. and basically by saying that, he's indicating, i'm not so sure if either of you has our interest at heart. that is, the british or the french. if we were to assist you, how -- what will be in it for us? what will you do in terms of protecting our interests? and he said at the same time, look at the french, they are men, they are fortifying everywhere. you are, quote, like women, barren, open, without any fortification. if you british would have -- and british colonials would have our allian alliance, you must be strong or else forget it, we will not assist you. an iroquois chief, another one who's unnamed, had a different view and he's quoted in colonial sources. it's a very interesting quote. and his perspective was it would be wiser for them to side with the french. brethren, are you ignorant of the difference

we have british colonials working with the british commander. branddock didn't find everything easily. it took benjamin franklin's intervention to help prokoour wagons and horses for the british army. franklin acted as an agent and advertised in pennsylvania's rule county. basically, his message to the farmers was cooperate with the thing. he is here to defend off his troops, that is. >> you cooperate the king will pay well for your horses and cart. do not be afraid. if you do not cooperate, then the king's business must be done and you will lose your wagon horses and get nothing. the farmers did cooperate. we have the king with good hard money. here we see the path of braddock from virginia and then maryland along north of the patomic. long journey between the heavy, wooded area. there he enecounters a force op rough lif a,000 inspect enemy cap. they have come out of the fort duquesne. opposing him was several hundred french soldiers and perhaps 6400 native. people who lived in the ohio country in the vicinity. who believed that france was not

so here we have colonials, british colonials from virginia working with the british commander general braddock. braddock didn't find everything easy. he found that the colonists weren't necessarily simply cooperative with the british war effort, especially farmers, and it took benjamin franklin's intervention to help procure wag dons and horses for the british army. and franklin acted as an agent for general braddock and advertised in pap's rur-- pennsylvania's rural counties and basically his message to the farmers was cooperate with the king. he is here to defend us. his troops that is. and if you cooperate, the kinging will pay well for your horses and carts. do not be afraid. as the men who would manage the carts or drive them and you will get good pay, but if you do not cooperate, then the king's business must be done and you will lose your wagons and horses and get nothing. so of course, the farmers did cooperate. and the king paid in good hard money. well, here we see roughly the path of braddocking from virginia and then maryland along north of the potomac and then long journe

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all the wars we fought in the united states including the first colonial war. i mean, this was blowing my mind. herbert documented another book

moon colony has always been very, very low on the list. one wonders why he brings it up now.n, he has talked in the past of an actual moon colony with thousands of people who could apply for state hood, if they wanted to. is this going to be a red state or a blue state? >> unclear. as somebody tweeted to me last night, anybody who went from here to the moon, they would be illegal imimmigrants. ken is right. when he was speaker, he had some of these whacky ideas. the problem is two-fold. it makes -- it's one thing to have big ideas, it's another thing to have big ideas that are completely out of realm where our reality is today. here is newt gingrich attacking president obama for the stimulus package, doing things here at home, help kids at college and he wants to spend billions and millions of dollars into going to the moon and starting a colony. it just doesn't track is part of the problem. >> the only thing about it that does, it doesn't really track but it kind of makes sense is he's talking on the space coast. >> of course. >> you want to pander to voters there and you wa

call about the colonial penn program now.'ll be glad you did. >> bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. occupy wall street organizers are bickering about what else? money. the daily mail reports the movement raised more than $700,000 in three months. now it has about $300,000 left to spend. here are some ideas that were reportedly considered and rejected. stuffing the remaining bills in to sacks and burning them. splitting the cash among the occupiers. rock star mode where ten of the most vocal members would go on a tour to spread the word down the eastern seaboard. a solidarity tour in egypt. investing $150,000 on a place for homeless protesters. and setting aside $100,000 for jailed comrades. >>> boys could compete on girls athletic teams and vice versa if a proposed law in california is approved. los angeles tv station is reporting that schools would be required to allow students to participate based on their gender identity. not their biological sex. it would also require opposite sex access to sex-segrega

romney taking the campaign to cape canavaral this hour, and we know he is not going to call for a colony on the moon association what can we expect, and carl is there. there it is, that is one of the two centers of nasa, cape canavaral, how will they respond to the heated debate and the interesting interchange about the moon and a colony. >>carl: well, mitt romney went after newt gingrich in the debate gore that and said it was a bad idea and criticized him aggress every, and, as did rick santorum make the point that when the government has $14 trillion or $15 trillion debt now is not the time to add a colony on the moon but newt gingrich is a long time space fan and he has been making proposals like this for decades and there are many in the space program who think it is a good idea and do not expect mitt romney to say it is a good idea. he will talk about belt tightening account need to get the private sector involve, and when you listen to what he said last night it is evident that mitt romney thinks sometimes the big ideas that come from newt gingrich are not just bad ideas but somet

he wants colonies on the moon. and if we did decide as a nation to go there and colonize the place, the question is could we do it? and what would we get out of it? thinking big again? tonight we get to ask one of the best in the business. he's an astrophysicist and the director of the hayden planetary at the museum of natural history here in new york. he's the author of "space cronicles" which is coming out in february. also "space chronicles." i looked at the dedication. you dedicate your book to big thinkers and dreamers and people thinking about tomorrow. have we stopped thinking about tomorrow? >> we have so stopped thinking about tomorrow. we're not that old to not remember the '60s and '50s where you wouldn't go more than a week without an article in "time" magazine or "look" and saying the city of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow. it's all gone. it coincided with the space race and ended when all that ended. >> when you hear talk about moon colonies, is that the answer? >> he's been so razzed with t

"way too early's" next. >>> immigration, taxes, blind trusts and lunar colonies.da at last night's republican debate where mitt romney flipped the script on newt gingrich and had the crowd cheering for him. the question is, with the polls in florida airtight at the top, how does newt or mitt edge ahead by tuesday? mark halperin will join us live in just a minute. >>> defense secretary leon panetta introduced a new military budget. the question is how will he and the president convince members of congress already screaming bloody murder about this to go along with the new plan? >>> and on any other day, it would be our top story. pat sajack admitso

after all, the united states of america was a colonial creation the 13 colonies that broke away from the british crown in the 1860's. so that is up to take away from its validity as a political entity. it is to say that the involvement that starts under the auspices of the east india company under the auspices of the british crown is essentially formative of what becomes known today as afghanistan. the british are the ones who draw the boundary that is agreed to in 1893 and is unilaterally drawn by the british over the following 40 years. the british and depressions, excluding the afghans, delineate the northern border. the border with iran is done under british auspices in arbitration between afghan an iranian sovereigns. so the british involvement in this area is fundamentally shaped what we now know as modern-day afghanistan. that is not to say there was not a previous heritage of a political society in density or that in any way it is somehow illegitimate because it has an external boundaries imposed upon the, but it is to recognize the importance of the british in forming what w

new hampshire is another one of the colonies.interesting story is really vermont which is in this kind of contested space which the new yorkers think belong to them. but the settlers of sat, many of whom -- of vermont, many of whom had come from connecticut, up the connecticut river, had been getting these grants from wentworth who was governor of new hampshire, they insist it's theirs. and that's a long and interesting story, but something tells me we don't have time to do that now. i would hike to make just some concluding -- like to make some concluding thank you remarks if you don't mind, and this is really stupid, but could i borrow a coup of the book? [laughter] -- a copy of the book? i forgot to bring it up here. so i just want to say some thank yous. first person i'd like to thank is the person who's trying to shrink out the door, but don't. [laughter] the students here all know her as the program coordinator of the strategic studies program. not only has she orchestrated this whole event and made it

this colonial mansion is home to the vietnamese president.the communist leadership now accepts that the colonial period is part of the country's history. a number of embassies are housed in mansions on the tree-lined boulevards. one neighborhood on from the french quarter is the old town. led by the city's former chief architect, we weave our way along the crowded pavements, between motorbikes and strolling tourists. though our interpreter, dr. dao tells us how apparent the french influence is in the old town, as well. the old-fashioned, eclectic charm of the neighborhood makes it a magnet for western visitors. local authorities want to make sure it remains a tourist attraction, and they'd like to see residents make more of an effort to keep it looking nice. but urban planning regulations are hard to implement here -- there are just too many loopholes. pham hong dung moved away from the old town in order to build his own 5-storey house in a suburb of hanoi. he's been living here with his family for two months. his wife has a job at a universi

there are 16 colonies in the world. it makes sense that they would deny us our property. >> the falklands have been under british rule for almost 180 years but argentina claims the islands really belong to them. argentina invaded in 1982 but its forces were defeated by the british military and expelled. the episode made the inhabitants of the island even more hostile to argentina. over the following three decades, relations gradually improved. that was until two years ago when oil firms began exploring around the island and the mood spoiled. the island state will be decided by their 3000 inhabitants. that has not impressed the demonstrators and feelings continue to run high. >> fire officials from the city of reno say that a man has confessed to accidentally starting the fires that destroyed 29 homes and forced 10,000 people to evacuate. he said he improperly discarded ashes from his fireplace. he is is extremely remorseful and corporate in with investigators. this is "bbc world news," still ahead -- the republican race

i guess the lunar colony talk brought him back to the dark side. >>> now for a fact check.zona governor jan brewer drew scrutiny this week for the intense encounter she had with president obama. republican congressman of arizona came on "hardball" last night and had this to say about brewer's record and popularity in her home state. >> she came in the same time barack obama did. the state in arizona was among the worst hit with the housing crisis. we were 47th in job creation. she's balanced the budget. she's universally loved in arizona. >> really? universally loved? where does brewer's approval stand in arizona really? well, in this november's ppp poll, 49% disapprove of brewer's performance. 42% approved. when it comes to the arizona governor, love is not all around her. now for the big number tonight. remember when president obama went musical at new york's apollo theater last week? ♪ i'm so in love with you >> well, thanks to the president, that al green hit is making a comeback. how much did weekly sales of the 1970s hit surge by the end of this week? 490%. talk about

tea party doesn't want a colony on the moon. they want to slash. mitt romney is mocking newt gingrich for pandering for votes and said that newt gingrich is not being realistic. i spent years in business. if an executive wanted spend few hundred billion to put a colony on the moon, i would say you are fired. the idea that corporate america want to go to the moon and build a colony there may be a big idea but it is not good. >> tea party in florida, according to the polls, half of the teparters are behind mitt romney and the other half behind newt gingrich it is it a nine point lead for mitt romney . right across the water that is the tampa bay times forum . if you think the campaign has gone on line enough they have tv commercials and mud slinging between romney and newt gingrich. 7 more months until the republican party nominates their nominee. here in tampa it is all about pirates and gas perilla and if a politician came down here they may be force to walk the planks. but the candidates are trumping heardad and drumping up votes. >> always greatt

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a protracted discussion about whether or not the united states ought to have a moon colony as soon as possible. that clip later in the show. >>> first, let's get to the news, live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. we have new nbc/"wall street journal" polls just ahead of last night's debate that helped frame the conversation, four days ahead of voting in florida. the candidate with the most support in the primary fight is not the same one that voters think has the best shot in the general election. here's what i mean. according to the nbc/"wall street journal" poll, newt gingrich leads the republican presidential field with 37% support nationwide. mitt romney 9 points behind in this national poll. followed by rick santorum at 18% and ron paul at 12. when it comes to a potential matchup against president obama. republican voters think mitt romney is the strongest candidate. he trails the president in our poll by 6 points. rick santorum is seen as the next strongest candidate ahead of newt gingrich. the former speaker loses to president obama in a head-to-head race by 18 po

how many -- who told the colonies that the british were coming? no, no, that was the first person killed in 1770 but who rode off and told the british was coming. paul revere. nothing could be further from the truth. ever heard of israel bizle. he run 346 miles on horse back from boston to philadelphia to warn not just boston, but all of the colonies in that upper area about the parish were coming. in other words, there are stories that made america and there are stories that america made up. you hear what i just said? there are stories that made america and there are stories that america made up and too often the myth becomes the choice and you believe rather than the facts and here's one thing and i'm going to close it here. he give me 15 minutes. i say, how are you going to give me 15 minutes? it takes a day of my time to come up here and give me 15 minutes. but i'm going to take what i need to take. what else are you going to do when you get up here? i'm going to leave you with this and you got to listen to this. the myth of absent. in america

i'm definitely gonna call about the colonial penn program.cessfully built and tested their first nuclear fuel rod. iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. but western leaders and some regional powers are concerned that tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. iran also test fired a long-range missile today on the final day of its naval exercises in the strait of hormuz. ashore to see missile test was successful with the weapon hitting its intended targets. the news agency says that i ran also plans to test fire short range and surface-to- surface missiles ... benefits and manhunt continues for a gunman who killed a ranger at mount rainier national park in washington state margaret anderson was shot to death during a roadblock in the park yesterday morning authorities say that she was trying to stop 24 year-old benjamin barnes who had sped past a snow tire check point he is an iraq war veteran who is said to have survivalist skills rangers evacuator that park to search for him he is also a suspect in the shooting of four people at a

they fly away from their colonies and eventually died. south costs they have a sound of the fly in the colonies across the the area and are just not examining samples from other states. >> we have gotten positive hits from south dakota and bakersfield. we know that it is not just san francisco and to the bay area. >> the professor is skeptical on whether or not this is the culprit responsible for chili be colonies worldwide. >> traffic is a complex web of things. >> he also says that at this point they do not know how the pair's side is spreading or how to stop it. >> we do not have a treatment at the moment. >>gary: coming up later in the broadcast, the warriors are trying to do something they have not done in 13 years. vern glenn and i will argue about interlocking and peyton manning. that is coming up later in the broadcast. call >>catherine: a man walking his dog claims to find panetta's him, it will work as an offer but no one has seen the money. police say any time there is a reward, it is not a good idea to just hand over the cash.

we dug up papers from colonial times. we read everything that we could find that was written on different aspects of the media, to try to make sense of the system. and i think we have. i think we have come up in this book with a theory of how the american media system developed to the point it is today, and also what the central role of race and racial conflict has been in the development of that system, and i think that's the big picture thrust of what this book is about. and just to reflect on some of the things joe did not mention. i think the key thing that we have come to understand is that the media in america have never operated as a free market system. in fact, the public, through it government, has played a crucial role in the development of our media system, and, as joe mentioned, everytime a new technology comes around, it upsets the existing order and forces the government to step in and come up with new rules for hough information will be delivered to the people. so we have never had a really true market syst

i'm not looking for a colony on the moon.'d rather be rebuilding housing here in the u.s. >> we have a question i want the speaker to weigh in as well. this's question from twitter. speaker gingrich, how do you plan to create a base on the moon while keeping taxes down in eight years. >> do you believe nasa in its current form is the most effective way of leverageing air and space. you almost wonder what is the washington office of nasa do? does it sit around and think space? does it contemplate that someday we could have a rocket? my point in the speech i made yesterday which is on c-span, and i'd love to have all of you looked at it, having looked at space issues since the late 1950s when missiles and rockets was a separate magazine and working with nasa and others. i believe by the use of prizes, by the use of incentives, by opening up the space port so it's available in a ready basis for commercial flight, by using common sense, for example, the atlas 5 could be fixed into a manned capable vehicle so you didn't have to re

>> i would have to some people like it put in moon colonies basically here in washington. gave this big speech. i'm a space person. i like space and i think we should be doing more in space. nevertheless, if you are a conservative and you are concerned about our fiscal standing. you can make an argument while this is a great idea. not when you have $15 trillion of debt. so, they are worried that gingrich would represent the face of conservative, right? and everybody invested in him but he won't be conservative. that's what they are doing. >> did you see coulter on here? she is on monday night. >> i missed it. >> coulter is here. >> she is on my show. >> really. >> yeah. coulter is here and you don't get more conservative than coulter. >> simply put she believes bad for conservative. >> talking to coulter off camera. pretty tough on gingrich. i'm surprised because i was. when coulter came out and started banging gingrich like she bangs the left. i went whoa. so you know what it's all about? i'm not giving away anything. because i think ann would probably tell you the same t

there is no love for the colonial power and the dynasty that accommodated them except in the travel and tourism trade. we are now in the original hotel. >> we work here and other people say this is the place of our hotel. the emperor and empress used to dance here very often. >> well, i feel lucky here already. >> there was no freedom whatsoever when foreigners did as they pleased and a feeble china. now, the bar is not reserved for foreigners. these are the new chinese middle-class, happier talking about sex in the city than the little red book. do you feel as free as a woman in the west? >> we feel free. we can do the things we want. >> know you can't. you can't change your government. >> why do we have to change our government? >> don't you want the right to decide the laws under which you live? >> we have the right to decide some things. >> you cannot get rid of the communist party. >> why would we get rid of it? >> you might not like it? >> why do we have to change it? this is our government. this is with us. they give us close -- clothes, everything. maybe definition is different

the colonials fall to 8 and 13 on the season. and just quick, tiger woods at the tournament today he shot a 66, he's in the lead going into the final round. looks like his second consecutive win if he wins tomorrow. >> that is the news, we'll of course stay on top of breaking news for you. and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. have a good night.

lawrence river always a natural boundary between canada and the english colonies?ere there ever a lot of french canadians who lived on the southern side of the st. lawrence river? where did new hampshire come from? [laughter] >> the french settlement of canada is really a long for shores of the st. lawrence. doesn't penetrate very deeply. quite early on people trading with the indians go very far west. that is why their accounts have french names which we tend to forget. the st. lawrence was not the boundary. the boundary was sort of ill-defined. very fine american historian named allan taylor has written a lot about this middle space with people with different kinds of allegiances and loyalties. one thing i should point out, the great warpath is not really a commercial routes. a route of war share. if you are canadian looking to the west, the fur trade and so on, looking along the st. lawrence to france. we are very much connected to -- the americans are very connected to the atlantic system. but the border land is really quite mixed and people with mixed and unce

let's listen to that. >> i'm not looking for a colony on the moon.uld be in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions. i would rather focus on housing here in the u.s. >> you've had an ad running saying that speaker gingrich calls spanish, quote, the language of the ghetto. what do you mean by that? >> i haven't seen the ad, i'm sorry, i don't get to see all the tv ads. i doubt that's my ad, but we'll take a look and find out. there's been a bunch of ads organized by other people. >> we just looked, governor, that ad i talked about where i quoted you as calling newt gingrich saying the language of the ghetto. it is one of your ads, it's running here in florida, and at the end you say, i'm mitt romney and i approve this ad. >> you said it was his ad, you came back with him on that. is it not a practice for the candidates to review and approve the ads that go out under their names? >> there are so many ads that go out. he should have known better and i think he'll acknowledge that if he does have a radio ad, even if it's in spanish, even if he says i'