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I was visiting Canada’s East Coast last week and happened to tour the Fortress of Louisbourg, the largest reconstructed historic fort in North America. At one point, a reenactor explained that the French were so keen on keeping their colony dependent that nearly everything there had to be shipped in from France: basic supplies, stone, stonemasons, and even firewood. (For added comic effect, we were literally standing next to a forest.) It was a small but salient detail, underscoring the perennial absurdity of government planning from past to present and the colonial condescension that would eventually help fuel the American Revolution.
That same tension runs through “Revolutionary America,” Hillsdale College’s first feature-length documentary. Directed by Ian Anthony Reid and narrated by Tom Selleck, the film traces the struggle for independence from the French and Indian War through the Revolution and into the constitutional settlement that followed. Its central question is not merely how the Americans won independence, but why ordinary men risked their lives, fortunes, families, reputations, and futures for what must have seemed, at the time, like political fantasy.
The film begins with the French and Indian War, framing the event as the turning point that reshaped both North America and the relationship between Britain and its colonies. By the war’s end, Britain’s American territories were roughly the size of the Roman Empire at its peak. It was at this moment, the documentary suggests, that the British Empire truly became the Empire.
Yet imperial grandeur came with imperial expenses, and the Crown soon began imposing draconian taxes on the colonies to compensate for its spending — a veritable inspiration for New York’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-wants-to-decide-who-deserves-to-keep-their-property">current mayor</a>. The issue, as the film wisely emphasizes, was not simply money. Taxes are not merely about money; they reveal a theory of government: who has authority, who owes obedience, and who gets to decide the terms of civic life.
This is where “Revolutionary America” is strongest. It shows how the Tea Act and Coercive Acts (among others) were part of a broader imperial posture. As Daily Wire host Michael Knowles observes in the film, Britain treated the colonies like children and resented their success while lavishly profiting from them — like child stars whose parents appoint themselves managers and siphon off the proceeds.
The colonists’ grievance was therefore not reducible to a tepid tax revolt. They were objecting to a form of rule that denied them the rights and responsibilities they believed were endowed by a higher power. The English monarch believed the inverse: that this same higher power had ordained him with the authority to dictate those rights. Hillsdale understands the Revolution as a moral argument foremost, rooted in the conservative preservation of inherited liberties rather than the radical, abstract restructuring of society that later doomed the French model.
Among Hillsdale’s triumphs is the selected cast. Tom Selleck’s earnest narration carries a warm and disarming authority that effortlessly conveys his passion for the period and his esteem for its heroes. The commentators are effective as well, especially Hillsdale professor Wilfred McClay, whose amicable and endearing speaking style is as effective as any advertisement for the college.
The documentary also cleverly layers commentary with letters, speeches, maps, landscapes, paintings, sketches, and architectural footage. The camera deftly moves through them, isolating details and drawing the viewer into the scene with the careful theatricality of one of those immersive Van Gogh exhibitions. The result is visually richer than one might expect from an educational documentary working within what was likely a modest budget.
Ryan Moore’s musical score also gives the film great momentum, from pulsating snare drums placing you squarely amid the chaos of a raging battlefield, to lush, pastoral string arrangements carrying you through the sweeping landscape of the era.
The film’s strongest section comes at Valley Forge, the defining crucible of the American Revolution. Reid combines snowy landscapes, period sketches, animated letters, and intimate narration to evoke the misery of the winter of 1777 to 1778. Letters from soldiers, including Timothy Pickering writing to his wife about the lack of shoes and clothing amid the freezing privation, convey both the hardship and endurance required to wage war against the superpower of their time.
Here, too, the film foregrounds the Christian dimension of the Revolution. The Americans’ determination was driven by the conviction that their rights were not indulgences from the Crown, but truths ordained by a higher power. “We are on a mission from God,” as the Blues Brothers would later proclaim. George Washington and his compatriots believed their rights came from God as firmly as the English monarch believed his right to rule did. Only one vision of authority could prevail.
That is the deeper argument of “Revolutionary America.” Rights do not come from government and therefore cannot rightly be taken away by government. Watching the documentary, I was reminded of what Abraham Lincoln meant at Gettysburg when he described the United States as a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”: The American Revolution was not about changing management but asserting that legitimate government derives from the consent of the governed.
The final stretch moves toward the Constitution and the crucial work of preserving what the Revolution began. Asked whether the convention had produced a monarchy or a republic, Benjamin Franklin famously quipped: “A republic, if you can keep it.” And that is the documentary’s lingering lesson. The Constitution is, in a sense, only a piece of paper. It cannot preserve itself. “We the people” must keep the republic.
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Harry Khachatrian (<a href="https://x.com/harry1t6">@Harry1T6</a>) is a film critic for the Washington Examiner. He is a software engineer, holds a master’s degree from the University of Toronto, and writes about wine at<a href="https://www.betweenbottles.com/"> BetweenBottles.com</a>.

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Academy Award-nominated American director and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky is being questioned for his new AI-generated series, “On This Day&#8230; 1776.”
The 56-year-old filmmaker, best known for dark dramas including “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), “Black Swan” (2010), and “The Whale” (2022), is producing the series with his AI-based company Primordial Soup. “On This Day” will use Google DeepMind to reconstruct scenes from the American Revolution and post them to Time Studio’s YouTube channel, per <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/darren-aronofsky-revolutionary-war-ai-series-1236488180/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The series has a stated goal of “reframing the Revolution not as a foregone conclusion but as a fragile experiment shaped by those who fought for it,” the companies said in a statement. Episodes will be released to coincide with the 250th anniversary dates as they occurred throughout this year.
Two episodes, one featuring George Washington boosting morale in Massachusetts and another with Benjamin Franklin encouraging Thomas Paine to champion common sense, were released yesterday.
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Aronofsky has been vocal about using AI as a tool, and not as a replacement for filmmaking. He insists that the creations are “soup not slop,” and are worthy of watching. Many fans, however, are less than thrilled about it. 
“Wow this looks like a hunk of worthless dog sh*t,” Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh <a href="https://x.com/mattwalshblog/status/2017086047868404138?s=43">wrote</a> on X in response to the trailer. 
“A director should completely lose their career for this. [H]is wikipedia should say former filmmaker from now on no matter what else he does,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/ecto_fun/status/2016950114439323746?s=43">agreed</a>. 
“My favorite part of this garbage is how you can see which actors the different characters lifts their looks from (due to unlawful usage of their likeness in the training data) and how these characters slowly morph into different actors during scenes,” <a href="https://x.com/Carnivol/status/2017163838601224671">said</a> a third X user.
“This look [sic] awful,” another popular comment <a href="https://x.com/BikeMan/status/2016981447446290642">said</a>. “It has that weird uncanny valley AI sheen on it as usual. AI also always has boring, predictable camera movements. Slow rotations and pans every time. I see the standard AI dead eyed line deliveries are present as well.&#8221;

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Left-wing entertainer Trevor Noah this week compared Islamic terror attacks against Israel to America&#8217;s Founding Fathers fighting the British during the American Revolutionary War.
Noah made the remarks during an interview with far-Left activist Ta-Nehisi Coates about a new book that he wrote that is filled with <a href="https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1844369065017557207">false claims</a> about Israel.
The book is so extreme that a mainstream news anchor recently said it was a manuscript that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-hires-dei-strategist-to-counsel-journalists-upset-by-questioning-of-ta-nehisi-coates">terrorists</a> would read.
“I have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards, the acclaim, took the cover off the book, publishing house goes away, the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist,” said CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil.
Noah said that people were outraged by Dokoupil&#8217;s assessment of the book because Coates was asked to answer legitimate questions about his claims.
&#8220;I sat there. I don&#8217;t get flabbergasted by much. I genuinely don&#8217;t. I sat down, I was like, what?&#8221; Noah said. &#8220;My first thought is, yes, but if you remove every context from everything, then everything could go anywhere. You know what I mean?&#8221;
&#8220;If you remove America&#8217;s history and America&#8217;s [inaudible] and America&#8217;s this, then it&#8217;s like, yeah, those people who fought against the British they were terrorists,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I mean, you can call it like, yeah, the Boston Tea Party. That&#8217;s terrorism. If you remove the context, everything has no context.&#8221;
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Trevor Noah says he was &#8220;angry&#8221; at CBS&#8217;s Tony Dokoupil for saying Coates sounded like an extremist. Noah then compares Gaza to the American Revolution: &#8220;If you remove America&#8217;s history&#8230;then it&#8217;s like, yeah, those people who fought against the British, they were terrorists.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/dloUdNfmVc">pic.twitter.com/dloUdNfmVc</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1844506969438036297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
Notable reactions included:
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This moral relativism is typical for Noah who also said Hitler was a great man because he “scares the man who oppresses me”
(And he was wrong, the Afrikaaners liked Hitler because they hated the British. But whatever.) <a href="https://t.co/uMJfIUo8mK">https://t.co/uMJfIUo8mK</a>
— Lahav Harkov 🎗️ (@LahavHarkov) <a href="https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1844614642179481981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Noah came from apartheid South Africa to USA and made like what $20M a year to talk? Coates was never oppressed and has made a fortune through writing about pseudo-oppression. This conversation is absurd. <a href="https://t.co/lKdf9BOVSS">https://t.co/lKdf9BOVSS</a>
— Eli Steele (@Hebro_Steele) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hebro_Steele/status/1844541763563946319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Yes the American revolution mostly featured George Washington leading terrorists to massacre, rape, and drag the corpses through the streets while celebrating the death of British civilians in large numbers, and then Washington and his terrorists hiding behind innocent colonials… <a href="https://t.co/tw4I1u2mTs">https://t.co/tw4I1u2mTs</a>
— Clifford Asness (@CliffordAsness) <a href="https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/1844526823390298374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Extreme leftists are campaigning this week through multiple mediums to normalize mass violence and killing. What are they planning? <a href="https://t.co/RPfwWUlcUI">https://t.co/RPfwWUlcUI</a>
— Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/EzraACohen/status/1844636361673846888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2024</a></blockquote>

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250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded in his journal:</a>
<blockquote>&#8220;This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We had generous, noble Sentiments, and manly Eloquence. This Day convinced me that America will support the Massachusetts or perish with her.&#8221;</blockquote>
Why so happy? Because the First Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia and composed of respected Virginians like George Washington and Patrick Henry and Massachusetts natives Sam and John Adams, had endorsed the <a href="https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=696&amp;img_step=1&amp;pid=2&amp;mode=transcript#page1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Suffolk Resolves</a>, a series of 19 resolutions written by defiant colonists from Boston’s surrounding counties.
Why was this so monumental?
In one sense, the Suffolk Resolves were not unique. Other localities throughout the colonies issued similar statements of resistance. American colonists had long governed themselves through their own institutions, assemblies, and charters. They resented Britain’s creeping interference and were preparing, as they would in the Declaration of Independence, to present to a “candid world” the principles of a new nation. And yet the Resolves stand out as a refined version of widespread conversations that had been occurring in the colonies about political principles and was an intellectual precursor to the Declaration.
The Declaration itself encapsulates the principles most central to the American national character. It did not spring suddenly from the singular pen of Thomas Jefferson. As <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-5212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jefferson himself wrote</a>, it was “an expression of the [A]merican mind,” and its “authority rests then on the harmonising sentiments of the day.” In voting to draft, finalize, and pass the Declaration, participants in various committees and associations, like the Committee of Five and the Continental Congress, had to come to an agreement. All told, the members of the conventions, committees, Congress, and the colonies achieved a consensus in “more than fifty separate instances at a minimum” as Dr. Danielle Allen demonstrates in &#8220;Our Declaration.&#8221;
Such a consensus was possible because, prior to the Declaration’s issuance, the American people had deliberated and united around a set of moral and political maxims. They did so in and through church pews, pulpits, and pamphlets. In a 1638 sermon, Reverend Thomas Hooker, who founded the colony of Connecticut, declared that “<a href="https://connecticuthistory.org/the-free-consent-of-the-people-thomas-hooker-and-the-fundamental-orders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the foundation of authority is laid, firstly, in the free consent of the people</a>.”
Religious institutions were gathering places for the 70-80 percent of colonists who attended service on a regular basis, according to &#8220;We Still Hold These Truths&#8221; by Dr. Matthew Spalding. Likewise, Thomas Paine’s &#8220;Common Sense,&#8221; published in the early months of 1776, sold approximately 500,000 copies when the population was just four million.
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Public documents were a means of disseminating and discussing the ideas America would be dedicated to upholding. The Suffolk Resolves made clear that the actions of the British were not mere violations of man-made laws. Reaching back to first principles, Americans contended that infringements on the right of representation and self-government were, “gross Infractions of those Rights to which we are justly entitled by the Laws of Nature, the British Constitution, and the Charter of the Province.” Violations by the British of the laws of nature were the ultimate grounds for separation.
Natural laws are not about the physical laws of the universe, like gravity, but the moral laws that human beings do not author and cannot themselves change. For example, murder is and has always been wrong, despite it occurring in all human societies, and it would remain immoral even if Congress passed a law to make it legal.
Human beings have inherent equal dignity, a principle that is interwoven through America’s documents leading up to the Revolution and is resoundingly affirmed in the Declaration of Independence. Nine of the early state constitutions contained expressions of human equality in some form, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Political-Theory-American-Founding-Conditions/dp/1316506037/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2H20U7BN7TC4J&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6qtc2rDHt-eUAnvUNOWGcHoydmfDDWYvpVCEfsosvd0EIwzTqv-kOfaQ2wvE-5-nivfxK_gCKiOydGmsvehF9Axk0jevsI92E_SVXYrSLJUYNZe3XhWYq_STdhR2rS39tf6XIAg2YjNKFwciDl3hhwOw1EZz9fff6X07sToEIl3o4L-5HKnbL19VO7vzSMmJwDDkHKzseLZQyv7OS9e7us9WCCeQH8xqMxjINBMzx6g.iz2h0xgI27hDriV1LLtgh5AlgL1thYUFaB6cToR16ug&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+political+theory+of+the+american+founding&amp;qid=1717520575&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+political+theory+of+the+american+founding%2Cstripbooks%2C100&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founding scholar Dr. Thomas West</a> notes.
The <a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Declaration of Rights</a>, adopted in June 1776, states that, “all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights.” And the Declaration of Independence memorialized this principle with the phrase, “all men are created equal.”
Men is a substitute for all human beings, regardless of sex or social status. As John Adams <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-10-02-0007-0007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote, equality</a>:
<blockquote>&#8220;It really means little more than that We are all of the same Species: made by the same God: possessed of Minds and Bodies alike in Essence… All Men are Men and not Beasts…The Equality of Nature is a moral Equality only: an Equality of Rights and Obligations; nothing more.&#8221;</blockquote>
All species have their defining characteristics. Most essential to humanity is our capacity to reason and engage in self-government, not our physical features, like skin tone or size. Through reason, we can discern right from wrong rather than act on mere instinct. And human beings are capable of controlling their impulses, passions, and desires.
Such capacities mean it is unjust for people to rule over one another absent their consent. England had repeatedly violated those principles by dismissing elected colonial assemblies, rejecting colonial laws, and imposing their own without obtaining the consent of the colonists. Thousands of miles away, Parliament believed it could uphold the common good and represent Americans as subjects. But Americans had formed themselves into a new kind of people, united around the principles of human equality and consent of the governed, and the character of that people rebelled against being relegated to an inferior status.
Sustaining that character requires ongoing work. Each generation of Americans has to decide to recommit itself to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and it is remarkable that we have the opportunity to do so. We can choose to govern ourselves now, both as individuals and as a nation, if we maintain the principled consensus of our past.
While today marks the anniversary of the Suffolk Resolves, we are rapidly approaching an even more crucial anniversary: the 250th of the Declaration of Independence. Will we resolve on that day to continue in the work we began on July 4, 1776, or will we depart from the intellectual heritage that made possible our ongoing experiment in self-government?
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Brenda Hafera is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Simon Center for American Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Over the years, the United States has produced many remarkable generals and admirals, but only a few have stood out as world-class strategists and leaders of troops. As Veterans Day approaches on November 11, let’s remember and celebrate them. Here is my list of America’s finest 11 commanders.
<h2>Nathanael Greene, 1742 &#8211; 1786 (Revolutionary War)</h2>
A Rhode Island foundry-owner by trade, Nathanael Greene was emblematic of the citizen-soldier. At age 33, he was the youngest general in the fledgling Continental Army; unlike his peers, the Quaker Greene had had no military experience prior to his arrival with his Rhode Islanders in the burgeoning Patriot camp outside Boston in 1775. His knowledge of military dicta came almost entirely from books. 
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Indeed, Greene had little formal education of any kind, given his Quaker father’s “prejudices against literary accomplishments.” So, he educated himself. Still, he would confess, “I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist [of] ignorance to surround me.” But this was no impediment to the resourceful Greene. With his intuitive understanding of military matters and protocols, including the importance of discipline and drilling as well as proper hygiene in the field, something much overlooked in Washington’s army when it first formed, Greene’s troops stood out as among the most reliable and professional in the still rag-tag Continental Army. Washington identified Greene right away as “an object of confidence.” 
<div id="attachment_647047" style="width: 755px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647047" class="size-large wp-image-647047" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-537106779-745x576.jpg" alt="Engraved scene depicting George Washington contemplating in from of a fireplace, watched by General Nathanael Greene and the Marquis de Lafayette, during the American Revolutionary War, circa 1780. Engraved by H B Hall. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)" width="745" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-537106779-745x576.jpg 745w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-537106779-300x232.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-537106779-768x594.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-537106779.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" />Engraved scene depicting George Washington contemplating in front of a fireplace, watched by General Nathanael Greene and the Marquis de Lafayette, during the American Revolutionary War, circa 1780. Engraved by H B Hall. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)</div>
It was, therefore, the steadfast Greene whom Washington turned to both for counsel as well as holding the line at particularly difficult places. It was Greene’s stout fighters who held off British bayonets to cover the Continentals’ retreat from the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777, preventing a withdrawal from degenerating into a rout. A selfless patriot, Greene also reluctantly served as Washington’s quartermaster, a role as vital to keeping any army in fighting condition as field drills. His capacity for organization and attending to detail he learned from business served the country well. There was little the enterprising and energetic Greene could not accomplish. Washington so respected the Rhode Islander that he made it known that should he fall, Greene was to take command of the Continental Army.
Greene’s true military talents blossomed when he took command of the southern detachment of the Continental Army during the campaign of 1780-1781. Sent by Washington to give teeth to the flagging southern cause (Charleston had been captured in May 1780 along with its 5,500 patriot defenders), the wily Greene led the aggressive British Lord Cornwallis, Banaster Tarleton and others on a wild chase through the Carolinas and southern Virginia. Defying military convention, Greene often split his forces to stay ahead of the pursuing British. When he did stand and fight, even if eventually ceding the field as at Guilford Courthouse in March 1781, Greene’s army nonetheless often inflicted higher casualties on the British, draining their strength and morale in pyrrhic victories. “We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again” was Greene’s mantra. 
<div id="attachment_647039" style="width: 761px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-647039" class="size-large wp-image-647039" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-150985763-1-751x576.jpg" alt="Major General Nathanael Greene (1742 - 1786) of the Continental Army receives unexpected funds from innkeeper Elizabeth Maxwell Steele at her tavern in Salisbury, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War, 2nd February 1781. Engraved by J. B. Hall after a painting by Alonzo Chappel. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)" width="751" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-150985763-1-751x576.jpg 751w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-150985763-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-150985763-1-768x589.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-150985763-1.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px" />Major General Nathanael Greene (1742 &#8211; 1786) of the Continental Army receives unexpected funds from innkeeper Elizabeth Maxwell Steele at her tavern in Salisbury, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War, 2nd February 1781. Engraved by J. B. Hall after a painting by Alonzo Chappel. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)</div>
Understanding that he was fighting a hybrid conventional and guerilla campaign, Greene managed to integrate his Continentals with local militia to create a cohesive fighting force that kept Cornwallis off balance —giving local commanders like Lafayette and Dan Morgan much latitude while offering advice without direct interference — and eventually compelled the British general to remove his army to Yorktown, Virginia —where it met its ultimate destruction. By the time Greene’s operations in the South were completed, the British, who once held deep tracts of territory, had been reduced to a scattering of coastal toeholds. 
Says historian Russell Weigley of Greene’s campaign in the South: &#8220;Greene&#8217;s outstanding characteristic as a strategist was his ability to weave the maraudings of partisan raiders into a coherent pattern, coordinating them with the maneuvers of a field army otherwise too weak to accomplish much, and making the combination a deadly one&#8230;. [He] remains alone as an American master developing a strategy of unconventional war.”
After Yorktown, Greene struggled to finance the southern army under his command. By the war’s official end in 1783 he’d incurred heavy debts to personally pay for his men’s provisions and equipment. As with Washington, Greene resigned his commission and set about rebuilding his lost fortune. Debts prompted him to leave Newport and re-establish himself in Georgia on a plantation outside Savannah that had been granted him by a grateful government. The northern Greene succumbed to heat stroke and died at age 43.
Nathanael Greene was by no means infallible. He was the one most responsible for persuading Washington to try and hold the Hudson River Forts Washington and Lee, only to see the entire garrison, some 3,000 men who were invaluable to the rapidly dwindling Continental Army, surrender and be marched off into captivity. 
While lamenting the fate of his soldiers languishing in the sweltering holds of disease-ridden prison ships anchored in the Hudson, Washington agonized over the loss. 
Yet, Washington never lost confidence in his most talented subordinate whose fierce desire to close with the enemy belied his Quaker roots. Greene rewarded Washington’s continued trust in the subsequent years, becoming one of the United States’ great generals. Defense analyst Robert Killebrew calls Greene “The second-best American general of the Revolutionary War” behind Washington himself.
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Although Greene was known for his robust physique, a childhood accident left him with a stiff right leg and a limp. But that did not impede the indefatigable Greene. When a dancing partner once complained that he danced stiffly due to his old injury, Greene confidently replied: “Very true, but you see I dance strong.” It is hard for a man like that to not succeed. And fortunately for the Revolution, Greene turned out to be just the man Washington needed to help bring about victory and, just as important during some very desperate days, stave off defeat.
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<h4>America’s Top 11 Generals</h4>
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado">Colorado</a> middle-schooler who was kicked out of class for wearing a patch of the Gadsden flag on his backpack said that his school “tried to tread” on his rights <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1799-there-s-no-such-thing-as-free-medicine-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during an interview</a> with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Jaiden Rodriguez, a 12-year-old who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-7th-grader-kicked-out-of-class-for-gadsden-patch-because-of-slavery-origins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled from class</a> at The Vanguard School in part for having the iconic flag on his backpack, told Shapiro that other kids at his school are allowed to display Pride-themed pins, but that he was punished for his Gadsden flag patch because a teacher thought that it was associated with slavery.
“They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about at all. It&#8217;s a revolutionary flag. It has nothing to do with slavery,” Rodriguez told Shapiro on his podcast. “It was meant as a warning sign not to tread on our rights in the revolution. Which is funny because they tried to tread on my rights and then they found out they [could] not.”
The Gadsden flag, a yellow flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the words “Don’t Tread On Me,” was flown during the Revolutionary War. The flag was designed in 1775 by U.S. brigadier general Christopher Gadsden, who critics have pointed out was a <a href="https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2949/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slave owner</a>.
Rodriguez said that he expected to win a race for student council in a “landslide” due to the controversy and that he was now “Mr. Popular” at his school.
On Monday, Vanguard School Director of Operations Jeff Yocum emailed Jaiden’s mother an explanation that cited several news articles about the flag.
Yocum cited a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/wearing-dont-tread-on-me-insignia-could-be-punishable-racial-harassment/">decision</a> by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which said that while it is “clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context,” nevertheless, “it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages in some contexts.”
The school board of Vanguard <a href="https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/colorado-springs-mom-says-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-gadsden-flag-patch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a decision to allow Rodriguez to wear the Gadsden patch after a board meeting on Monday night.
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&#8220;Last week, a student came to school with patches affixed to his backpack, with a half dozen patches depicting guns/weapons and one referencing alcohol,&#8221; the school told parents, adding that one of the patches was the Gadsden flag.
“From Vanguard’s founding we have proudly supported our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the ordered liberty that all Americans have enjoyed for almost 250 years,&#8221; an email from the school board reportedly said. &#8220;The Vanguard School recognizes the historical significance of the Gadsden flag and its place in history. This incident is an occasion for us to reaffirm our deep commitment to a classical education in support of these American principles.&#8221;
The school added that the district had informed school administrators that the flag was not allowed. According to a Tuesday statement from Harrison School District 2, another issue was several patches that referenced guns.
“The student returned to class without incident after removing the patches of semi-automatic weapons from the backpack. The Vanguard School and Harrison School District 2 worked in collaboration to resolve this matter,” the district said in a statement.
Rodriguez said that other kids were allowed to support “Pride,” but he wasn’t allowed to wear the historic Gadsden flag.
“There&#8217;s kids with pride pins and the teachers don&#8217;t say a thing. But I wear a Gadsden flag and it’s the end of the world. I see them in the hallways. It saddens me that they can do whatever they want, but I can&#8217;t wear a Gadsden flag,” he said.
When asked by Shapiro if he had any political ambitions, Rodriguez said that he would hope to run for governor of Colorado.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> college has continued to erase <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/american-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Revolutionary War</a>-era figures from campus to be &#8220;more inclusive,&#8221; including a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Virginia Peninsula Community College <a href="https://www.vpcc.edu/news/2023/08/Griffin,%20Wythe%20Halls%20to%20be%20Ranamed%20Kecoughtan%20Hall.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> this week that it would change the names of two halls, one named for Founding Father George Wythe and the other for Dr. Corbin Griffin, who served as a surgeon for Virginia Patriot soldiers.  
“Virginia Peninsula Community College is renaming Griffin and Wythe halls, which are connected and function as one building, to Kecoughtan Hall. The name is a tribute to the Kecoughtan tribe, the early settlers of the land where VPCC’s Hampton campus is located,” VPCC announced on its website.
According to school official Steven Felker, the process of changing over the signs will be “gradual.” The school had formed a naming task force and gathered feedback from faculty, student government, and others on the proposed changes. 
Wythe, who lived from 1726-1806, had a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Wythe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">storied career</a> in Virginia. As a law professor, he taught luminaries like Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, and John Marshall. In the years leading up to America’s war for independence, he served as a delegate to the Virginia House of Burgess, where he openly opposed the Stamp Act. During the war, he was a member of the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. He later attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and was influential in pioneering the field of constitutional law. 
Like many Founding Fathers, Wythe had a complicated relationship with slavery. Although he owned slaves, he was <a href="https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/explore/nation-builders/george-wythe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> as an early proponent of abolition and worked throughout his life to free them. As a judge in Virginia, he <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=9604" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled in favor</a> of freeing slaves during an internal family dispute over the will of a Quaker landowner. 
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Less is known about Griffin, but historians know that he was a surgeon for Virginia’s revolutionary soldiers and <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=80985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent time</a> on a British prison ship outside Yorktown. He <a href="https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/3770" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> also a Virginia state senator. 
VPCC was previously named Thomas Nelson Community College. Nelson was another Revolutionary War hero and signer of the Declaration of Independence. His name <a href="https://www.vpcc.edu/renaming/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was removed</a> so the college could be more “welcoming, inclusive, and representative of our unique region,” according to school president Towuanna Porter Brannon. 
Nelson <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/N000044" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was a member</a> of the first Continental Congress in 1776 and 1779, led Virginian forces against the British from 1777 to 1781, and was governor of Virginia.

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Nationally syndicated radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dana-loesch-rips-biden-the-stupidest-thing-ive-ever-heard-about-guns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dana Loesch</a> took time out on Saturday to offer a brief history lesson to Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-brings-in-big-guns-to-defend-blinkens-alleged-lies-disgraced-fbi-agent-peter-strzok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antony Blinken</a>, mocking him for comparing the American Revolution to the French Revolution.
Blinken had offered a statement Friday in honor of Bastille Day — the day that French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison in 1789.
&#8220;The War of Independence and the French Revolution were fueled by the same aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Today, we are more committed than ever to defending them — together. Warmest wishes on Bastille Day to the people of France,&#8221; Blinken wrote.
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The War of Independence and the French Revolution were fueled by the same aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Today, we are more committed than ever to defending them — together. Warmest wishes on Bastille Day to the people of France.
&mdash; Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1679860760145543169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Loesch was quick to respond, first simply wondering, &#8220;Are you historically illiterate?&#8221;
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Our revolution, founded in the protection of individualism and freedom *from* is opposite the French Revolution which pushed freedom *to* and socialist subjugation. Tocqueville noted that freedom was no longer the main pursuit of the revolutionaries. It was so unsuccessful it was…
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&#8220;Our revolution, founded in the protection of individualism and freedom *from* is opposite the French Revolution which pushed freedom *to* and socialist subjugation,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;Tocqueville noted that freedom was no longer the main pursuit of the revolutionaries. It was so unsuccessful it was followed by a dictator then the restoration of the monarchy. What an embarrassing tweet from a member of our government.&#8221;
And Loesch was far from the only person to notice the historical inaccuracy of Blinken&#8217;s statement.
&#8220;Both nations had revolutions at nearly the same time, that is true. The American Revolution started in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. In France, just 4 years later, collectivist ideologues who claimed that their science was superior to God-given wisdom usurped control of the country and proceeded to wreck every civic institution and overturn every social norm,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSarcasticist/status/1680158313986572288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>. &#8220;Political opponents were hunted down and destroyed, and the power of the State was unleashed against its citizens, viciously crushing all dissent. No question or doubt was tolerated. In the United States, it took until 2020 to get there.&#8221;
Pedro Gonzales added, &#8220;The French Revolution launched the Reign of Terror that killed tens of thousands of people, often in the most gruesome ways. Simon Schama wrote in &#8216;Citizens&#8217; that during the Vendéan massacre, &#8216;Every atrocity the time could imagine was meted out to the defenseless population. Women were routinely raped, children killed, both mutilated. . . . At Gonnord . . . two hundred old people, along with mothers and children, [were forced] to kneel in front of a large pit they had dug; they were then shot so as to tumble into their own grave. . . . Thirty children and two women were buried alive when earth was shoveled onto the pit.&#8217; But Blinken isn’t wrong to praise the French Revolution because, in a sense, modern liberals like him are its heirs.&#8221;
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The French Revolution launched the Reign of Terror that killed tens of thousands of people, often in the most gruesome ways. Simon Schama wrote in “Citizens” that during the Vendéan massacre, “Every atrocity the time could imagine was meted out to the defenseless population.… <a href="https://t.co/Q0xB8jvw7U">https://t.co/Q0xB8jvw7U</a>
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Omri Ceren, national security adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), pointed out, &#8220;It&#8217;s a small thing, but this is not the position of the State Dept. The State Dept. Office of the Historian notes that the Founders were so opposed to the French Revolution the Federalists legislated against it. This is what happens when you let children do social media.&#8221;
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It&#39;s a small thing, but this is not the position of the State Dept.
The State Dept. Office of the Historian notes that the Founders were so opposed to the French Revolution the Federalists legislated against it. 
This is what happens when you let children do social media. <a href="https://t.co/PaXL6IAFzQ">https://t.co/PaXL6IAFzQ</a>
&mdash; Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href="https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1680195809785028612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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'Are You Historically Illiterate?': Dana Loesch Torches Blinken Over Bastille Day Tweet

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The last battle of the American Revolution wasn’t the Battle of Yorktown, as is often taught, but a battle across the globe in India, some historians say.
The Battle of Cuddalore, a 1783 naval battle in India between Britain and France, is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/asia/last-battle-american-revolutionary-war-india-intl-hnk-ml/index.html">believed</a> to be the last battle in the Revolutionary War by a growing number of historians, challenging what most American children learn in the classroom, according to a July 4 report from CNN. 
“Americans and almost all historians of the United States until just recently focused almost exclusively on the Revolutionary War within the 13 colonies that rebelled against the British,” Kathleen DuVal, a history professor at the University of North Carolina, told CNN. “But in just the past decade or two, historians have broadened their focus and started to write about the Revolutionary War as being, as you say, a world war.”
Viewing the conflict from a broader international scope, DuVal concludes that the last battle of the American Revolution was fought by Britain and France off the coast of Cuddalore, India, in June 1783 — nearly two years after the Battle of Yorktown.
While DuVal and other historians acknowledge the importance of America’s 1781 victory at Yorktown in bringing Britain to the negotiating table, they note that it took until November 1782 for the U.S., France, and Britain to agree on peace terms and until 1783 for the peace treaty to actually be signed. 
As the Journal of the American Revolution <a href="https://allthingsliberty.com/2015/07/india-the-last-battle-of-the-american-revolutionary-war/">notes</a>, George Washington himself never knew Yorktown would be considered the end of the war, but he “felt it was his absolute duty to keep the Continental Army together until there was a final peace treaty signed and approved.” The online magazine also notes there were at least 44 clashes of the Revolution that took place worldwide between Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris — including the Battle of Cuddalore.
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According to historians, the American Revolution sparked conflict far beyond the 13 colonies. They note that the hostilities between Britain and France in America spilled over into conflict in Europe and the Caribbean — even in India, where both powers had established colonies. 
“When France entered the war in 1778 as an American ally, the British East India Company immediately moved to attack France’s Indian colonies, drawing both countries’ Indian allies into the fight,” the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia <a href="https://www.amrevmuseum.org/india-and-the-american-revolution">says</a> on its website. By 1783, France’s garrison in Cuddalore was an important British target since India was vital for British supplies and commerce during the war. 
While a preliminary peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War had already been agreed upon by June 1783, news had not reached British and French troops in India, <a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/treaties/senate-approves-treaty-of-ghent.htm#:~:text=On%20January%208%2C%201815%2C%20unaware,treaty%2C%20prompting%20great%20public%20celebrations.">similar</a> to how the news of the Treaty of Ghent did not reach British and American forces in New Orleans in time to prevent the dramatic last battle of the War of 1812. 
Britain <a href="https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/french-forces-attempt-break-siege-of-cuddalore.html">besieged</a> the French base in Cuddalore, and the French navy successfully drove off British ships guarding the shore to provide reinforcements. After an attempt to break Britain’s land siege on June 25, the French withdrew. French officers were planning another offensive, but the plans came to a halt on June 30 when news about the peace finally arrived.

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It used to be that when someone made a statement, then made another statement that implied something completely different, we had a name for that. We called it a contradiction. And it wasn&#8217;t considered a good thing. Not too long ago, contradictions could end political careers in this country. When Tim Murphy said publicly that he was pro-life, but then privately told a woman to kill her baby, he had to resign from Congress. Al Franken met the same fate, after he bought into the #MeToo hysteria, then fell into its crosshairs himself.
But a lot&#8217;s changed in the few years since Tim Murphy and Al Franken were forced out of Congress. All of a sudden, contradictions are everywhere, particularly in the political world. The only way to ensure world peace is to fund a war, foreign policy experts tell us. We&#8217;re a sanctuary city or state, but we don&#8217;t want any more illegal migrants, say Gavin Newsom and Eric Adams. Men can turn into women, gender studies professors shriek. Euthanasia is healthcare, the Canadian government insists. All of these statements are contradictions, but you&#8217;re hearing them all the time now.
In revolutionary periods, this is nothing new. Mao even wrote an essay entitled &#8220;On Contradiction&#8221; a century ago. Mao understood well that contradiction drives social change. Maybe the most important contradiction that revolutionaries must embrace, Mao argued, is the relationship between construction and destruction. On their face, these two concepts are polar opposites. Tearing something down means ruining it. Building something means creating it. If you want to build something new, you lay a foundation and get to work. You don&#8217;t wreck what you have. That&#8217;s how the bourgeoisie saw it. 
But Mao didn&#8217;t see it that way. A half-century ago, Mao famously explained, &#8220;There is no construction without destruction.&#8221; In other words, there&#8217;s a logical relationship between the two concepts. Creating a new society — one totally unlike whatever came before — requires wrecking the old society. Creating new symbols requires wrecking the old symbols. 
Mao&#8217;s teachings led to, of course, tens of millions of deaths, the destruction of historic artifacts, and mass starvation. The last thing you would ever want our political leaders in this country to do is follow his ideology and try to emulate it. But that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening. This weekend in Albany, the capital of New York state, we saw maybe the clearest example in recent history of both construction and destruction happening simultaneously. Under the cover of darkness, at 5:30 in the morning, the city removed a statue of Revolutionary War hero and U.S. senator Philip Schuyler. And at the very moment that workers took Schuyler&#8217;s statue away, the so-called &#8220;progress Pride flag&#8221; was waving in the background, for the first time in Albany&#8217;s history. Here&#8217;s what it looked like.
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One of the defining images of our era
City Hall removes Revolutionary War hero General Philip Schuyler
Pride flags wave in the background <a href="https://t.co/0hkhl4bHL8">pic.twitter.com/0hkhl4bHL8</a>
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Notice the multiple Pride flags flying proudly as the statue is hoisted away, including the brand-new nonbinary/BIPOC/trans flag. 
Now, if that seems like a carefully engineered juxtaposition, it is. It&#8217;s choreographed to deliver a very clear message. Mao&#8217;s disciples in the New York state government know that if they want their new flag to have any kind of legitimacy, then Philip Schulyer&#8217;s statue can&#8217;t remain. You can&#8217;t have construction without destruction. If you want a revolution, you can&#8217;t introduce a new idol without erasing the one that came before. So that&#8217;s exactly what the local government did, as explicitly as they possibly could have done it.
If you&#8217;re not trying to engineer a revolution — if you&#8217;re just an average person living in New York, with reasonable political views — then none of this really makes sense. What was wrong with that statue, exactly? As far as we can tell, no one ever bothered to ask a significant number of New Yorkers that question. No one ever ran a poll on this, at least not one that we could find. There was certainly no statewide referendum on whether people actually wanted Philip Schuyler&#8217;s statue removed. 
A few bureaucrats in New York just decided to do it a few years ago, and this weekend, they cut through the red tape and did it.
A local news station did conduct a man-on-the-street-style interview with a couple of residents to get their perspective. None of them could explain why this statue was being removed, even the people who said they supported removing it couldn’t explain why:
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Yes, a century-old historic artifact memorializing a Revolutionary War hero was not only taken down, it was taken down at the behest of a group of teenagers. The primary reason, as we heard in the clip, is that the absence of the statue will make city hall more &#8220;welcoming.&#8221; But welcome for who? If the standard is that any &#8220;unwelcoming&#8221; statue needs to go, then why exactly can&#8217;t we destroy the monument of George Floyd that sits outside city hall in Newark?
&#8220;But George Floyd didn&#8217;t own slaves,&#8221; you might say. That&#8217;s true. All George Floyd ever did was break into a woman&#8217;s home with five other people and hold a gun to her chest. And then, after getting out of prison, all George Floyd did was take enough opioids and meth to kill a horse, before trying to rob a store and fighting with several police officers. 
Despite all that, you&#8217;re not allowed to even criticize the George Floyd statue. You&#8217;ll lose your job if you do. Under the new rules, George Floyd&#8217;s statue is &#8220;welcoming.&#8221; The Revolutionary War general is &#8220;unwelcoming.&#8221; Understood? Probably not, but then you aren’t supposed to understand. Part of the point behind these arbitrary decisions is that they make no logical or moral sense. You are meant to go along with it whether you understand or not. We might ask “why?” but The Powers That Be will treat us like we’re children and they&#8217;re our impatient parents: “Because I said so,” they respond.
It&#8217;s all so contrived. Philip Schuyler is an iconic figure of the revolutionary era. He&#8217;s one of the reasons this country exists today. Multiple towns and forts are named after him in New York. And curiously, no one had a problem with him until very recently. Ten years ago, in an article, the Albany Times Union described Schuyler this way: 
<blockquote>&#8220;Philip Schuyler was a leading American statesman and a key general in the American Revolution who served at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga. He was named a representative to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia and an adviser to Gen. George Washington, who stayed at Schuyler&#8217;s mansion in Albany.&#8221;</blockquote>
The Times Union went on to describe Schuyler as:
<blockquote>&#8220;instrumental in the victory of the American colonists at the Battle of Saratoga in the fall of 1777, a turning point of the Revolutionary War. Residents of Albany, fearful that their city might be occupied by British soldiers, instead celebrated an unexpected victory at Saratoga. It was the first major win for the colonists and the residents of Albany rang church bells, fired cannons, roasted an ox and gathered around a large bonfire. Schuyler returned to the city of his birth as a hero.&#8221;</blockquote>
You can read that whole article. It&#8217;s still on the Times Union&#8217;s website, from 2013. There&#8217;s not a single mention of slavery or slaves in the entire piece. Guess how the Times Union describes Schuyler now? Here&#8217;s a recent article from the paper, from this year. 
<blockquote>&#8220;While noted as a politician and Revolutionary War hero, Schuyler enslaved over a dozen people at his Saratoga and Albany homes.&#8221; </blockquote>
The Times Union of 2023 goes on to cite — and this is not a joke — a report by five high schoolers who say that Schuyler is a bad man, and his statue has to be removed. That&#8217;s the report you heard referenced in that news clip, as well.
Here&#8217;s how the Times Union describes the findings of these high school students:
<blockquote>&#8220;The report, titled, &#8216;What To Do with Phil? — A 2022 Report from the Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute,&#8217; was created by five Albany High School students who met between October 2021 and June with two adult facilitators. While the report notes Schuyler&#8217;s accomplishments as a Revolutionary War general and politician, his legacy is still marked by owning human beings, it says.&#8221; </blockquote>
This is also the report that the Albany government relied on to justify removing the statue.
Facile does not begin to describe this. In the 18th century, no one had the same attitudes towards slavery that we do now — even the people who opposed it. Which relatively few people did back then. It’s not surprising that a bunch of dumb, arrogant kids would lack the proper historical perspective and think themselves qualified to pass moral judgments on historical figures who lived 250 years ago. But that’s where adults are supposed to step in. The problem is that there aren’t very many adults left in this country.
What&#8217;s really going on here is that Schuyler — like Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, and all the other historical figures who&#8217;ve had their monuments destroyed — is a hero of a different nation. One that the city of Albany considers to be a foreign enemy. And they know they have to erase him if they want their revolution to succeed.
The Biden administration understands this as well. Look at this grotesque display currently hanging at the White House:
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Today, the People&#39;s House – your house – sends a clear message to the country and to the world.
America is a nation of pride. <a href="https://t.co/ZZS9oTpDww">pic.twitter.com/ZZS9oTpDww</a>
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1667715777145847808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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That’s a Pride flag hanging on the White House, in between two American flags. There are similar displays all over the country, at 30 Rock and so on, but putting this flag at the White House, just like the flag at Albany City Hall, has particular implications. Most conservatives are saying that it&#8217;s horrific and evil for the White House to not only fly the Pride flag but to give it a place of primacy in between the two American flags. It is, of course, both of those things, but what they don&#8217;t understand is that the White House is also properly representing its own nation, which is not our nation. We are two nations in one. There is the old United States that conservatives still cling to and cherish, and there&#8217;s a new country with its own flag, its own traditions, its own heroes and foundational myths.
That&#8217;s the nation that the Biden regime, the media, academia, Hollywood all speak to and represent. Why do you think the city of New York took down Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s statue? Liberals used to love him. He was one of the greatest presidents this country ever had. He broke up the big monopolies. He was well-read. He saved the middle class. He established national parks. He was an explorer and a pioneer. They took down Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s statue in New York for a specific reason — which was to replace it. Instead of Teddy Roosevelt, New York recently put up a horned statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
That&#8217;s now happening, at scale. The nation we had before is being replaced. It&#8217;s not just the demographics that are changing. The activists who are leading this revolution, like all totalitarians, understand that to take full control, they need to erase our shared history. They&#8217;re executing their plan right in front of us, as obviously as they possibly can. While conservatives are debating the proper positioning of the American flag in relation to the Pride flag at the White House, the government is going out in the middle of the night and destroying the symbols they don&#8217;t like. They&#8217;re not asking your opinion on it. They&#8217;re just doing it. 
With that in mind, it&#8217;s not hard to wonder: What else will they take away before you even realize it? A lot more than statues. Soon the government may be able to kidnap your children if you don&#8217;t subscribe to the cult of gender ideology. That&#8217;s an actual bill in California right now. They’ll label you a child abuser and likely put you in prison for wrong-think, so the state can raise your child. That&#8217;s the ultimate goal of this push for &#8220;inclusion,&#8221; which of course is fundamentally about excluding anyone with traditional views (and in particular religious views). The totalitarians running the government, like all totalitarians throughout history, are obsessed with using their power to make future generations subservient to their rule. That&#8217;s the reason they&#8217;re sponsoring &#8220;Pride parades&#8221; that expose children to deviant sexual fetishes. That&#8217;s the reason they&#8217;re destroying and replacing everything they can.
It took the single deadliest famine in world history to stop Mao. What will it take to stop the revolution that&#8217;s taking place right now in this country? The longer this goes on — the longer sane people stay quiet and watch as all this happens — the more likely it is that, unfortunately, we&#8217;re going to find out.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-washington-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Washington University</a> is getting a new nickname after students complained that the “Colonials” mascot was offensive.
The university, located in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, announced that its new moniker will be the “Revolutionaries” after months of debate and complaints that the term “Colonials” was “extremely offensive” to the “nation and world at large.”
&#8220;This is an exciting day for the George Washington University Revolutionaries,&#8221; <a href="https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/its-revolutionaries?fbclid=IwAR13-QoIca7ZJ26UozSZrQwobQghrzea5I6CPD8jS5HgRtE68xw2PbRmjb0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Mark Wrighton, the president of the school. &#8220;I am very grateful for the active engagement of our community throughout the development of the new moniker. This process was truly driven by our students, faculty, staff and alumni, and the result is a moniker that broadly reflects our community—and our distinguished and distinguishable GW spirit.&#8221;
The term “Colonials” was chosen in 1926 and referenced many of those in the original 13 colonies who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/american-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fought for independence</a> from the British from 1775-1783. Other names floated as replacements included Ambassadors, Blue Fog, and Sentinels. 
An announcement video featuring school alumnus and NBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-todd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Todd</a> focused on the school’s commitment to making change around the world. 
“We are a truly global community, shaping the future of the world every day. We are always pushing, always learning. We are excited by new people, new experiences, new ideas, and new ways of thinking. We are in the center of power where our energy and drive fuels Washington, D.C., and beyond. We are dedicated to changing the world for the better,” a narrator said in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=964422694894332&amp;ref=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, which featured footage of Vice President Kamala Harris at the university. 
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The push to change the name began in 2018 when more than 500 students submitted a petition linking the school&#8217;s mascot to “systemic oppression.”
“The use of ‘Colonials,’ no matter how innocent the intention, is received as extremely offensive by not only students of the University, but the nation and world at large. The historically, negatively-charged figure of Colonials has too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression,” the students <a href="https://www.sa.gwu.edu/gw-mascot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
The school said it received more than 47,000 responses during its search for a new name. “To have 47,000 points of feedback from the GW community is a testament to the pride people have in this institution, and we are proud to offer them a new moniker that will propel us as we move ahead in our third century,” said Vice President for Communications and Marketing Ellen Moran.
George Washington University was chartered in 1821 by Congress.

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