his old artillery commander, henry knox, was prompting them on this.f you don't do this right and avoid indian removal. it is a stain on your legacy and the people will not come to hear anything about you. they created this treaty with a guy who was the creek -- an amazing character, native american chiefs come all the way up from georgia to new york, 27 of them riding in, they live next to abigail and john and make her an honorary creek indian and sign this treaty, arm to elbow, the only moment of real possibility in american indian relations. the state of georgia and south carolina don't recognize indian rights, and a series of homeland east of the mississippi, bypassed by american settlers. you couldn't be protected by american troops and over time those 7 amounts would grow smaller as they are not hunting and gathering societies but farming societies and eventually they would be assimilated. jefferson never thought blacks could be assimilated. he thought indians could be assimilated. he made a heroic effort, washington did, and it failed, the bigge

in the winter of 1776, george washington since a man named henry knox, the chief of his artillery, to ticonderoga. they load these 60 cannon onto sleds driven by oxen and the move them about 600 miles, it takes about eight weeks. -- 200 miles, it takes about eight weeks. one of the forgotten events of the american revolution but important, because they are getting heavy artillery, powerful cannons. and knox arrives back in boston sometime in late february or early march. that gives washington and idea. idea. let's go back to our first map. i probably should've put this in later. can't do anything with the peninsula because the british are occupying it, but you have this place called dorchester heights, it overlooks boston harbor and the city. it has high ground and looks a lot like breeds hill. in early march, 1776, george washington puts his heavy artillery on dorchester heights, making boston untenable.

in the winter of 1776, george washington since a man named henry knox, the chief of his artillery, to ticonderoga. oad these 60 cannon onto sleds driven by oxen and the move them about 600 miles, it takes about eight weeks. one of the forgotten events of the american revolution but important, because they are getting heavy cannons. knox arrives back in boston sometime in late february or early march. that gives washington in idea. let's go back to our first map. i probably should've put this in later. it,british are occupying but you have this place called dorchester heights, it overlooks boston harbor and the city. it has high ground and looks a lot like breeds hill. in early march, 1776, george washington puts his heavy artillery on dorchester americanriel: artillery can sink any ship in boston harbor and shell the city. howe wakes up and finds heavy american cannons overlooking the city. he could fight. he could land troops here. line them up and do bunker hill all over again. has lost his son -- stomach for bloody, linear combat. 1776, howeick's day, evacuates boston. the british

jefferson is sandwiched by henry knox, a member, and alexander hamilton, another member, and james madison. this is also believed to be the only document that holds the first four presidents' signatures on it, and what's even more interesting about the story of this document is it was rediscovered, i guess you can say, in the 1960s, by an intern who is going through an old vault during renovations and found a scroll rolled up with a red ribbon on it and opened it up and realized he had a national treasure on his hands. i would also like to point out this was a bipartisan effort. the desire to explore, to support science, was a bipartisan effort bringing together both the jeffersonians and the federalists at this moment. here's another one of our treasures, another jeffersonian document just like we have the constitution and franklin's copy. we also have thomas jefferson's final draft of the declaration of independence. he sent one copy to congress and then he sent a few others to some of his friends. this was sent to richard henry lee, a virginian. he had proposed the vote for independence