the reason their wearing Redcoats is because all military Bandsmen of the period, in all armies, wore the reverse colours of the line infantrys coats, British Bandsmen mainly wore yellow coats as their comrades in the line companies(fighting) wore mainly Red coats with yellow facings
@mickavalon1 Thanks for the explanation! I'm not sure about other military forces, but I think the US Marine Corps band upholds that tradition to this day with their dress uniforms. The other marines wear a very dark blue and the enlisted troops have red piping, but last time I checked the USMC band wears bright red dress uniforms.
It's funny because that was an insult to themselves and because they had to dress up as the British because they were too scared to wear their own uniforms whilst playing. Look it up if you don't believe me. :P
It's funny because that was an insult to themselves and because they had to dress up as the British because they were too scared to wear their own uniforms whilst playing. Look it up if you don't believe me. :P
@LolFishFail Actualy that is false...Billerica, Massachusetts is the home of the original Yankee Doodle, Thomas Ditson. He was charged with attempting to get a British solider drunk in order to steal his musket (because the British government outlawed the acquisition of new firearms in Massachusetts, and Virginia). The British soliders then tarred and feathered Thomas Ditson in the center of town and then paraded him out of town in exile. Militias from Mass adopted this tune in tribute to him
@LolFishFail The actual reason why these men are wearing Red Coats, is because the British Army used this song as an insult, and the Colonists used it in return as mockery...Kind of like the "N" word with african-americans...originaly a compliment, turned insult, then used by the "slaves" as a term of endearment, and mockery. (not anymore today, but back then it was)
@LolFishFail Plus in the early days of the revolution, it was much like the American Civil War...Many confederate soliders and "Color Guards" continued to use their old Blue suits of the Union Army, because there wasn't many official uniforms at the wars' start. American colonists, like their confderate counterparts had two options during the early months and years of war...wear your plain clothes, or wear your old uniform (if you were in the army previously) until new uniforms were available.
OMG I actually saw that in person!!! It was so cool 'cause I was thinkin' about it days before hand and then I actually got to see it...GO EPCOT!!! :D
The song was sung by the British to mock Americans starting during the Seven Years War and the fighting in North America. Though it was meant to insult us, we adopted it and even played it as the British handed over their weapons and flags after the Royal expeditionary force was crushed at Yorktown and the British Empire capitulated to the United States.
yes I know my dear. We lost because the French, Dutch and Spanish arrived and severly outnumbered us and because the French fleet stopped us from delivering supplies, not because of you yanks. Before the other European countries intervened Britain was easily beating the rebels. Redcoats vs militia wasn't much of a contest. You make it sound as if Britain lost its empire to the US. We owned a quarter of the world after losing the 13 colonies.
You do realize that after the Battle of Lexington we had to fight alone for about three years before France joined the war effort. France originally refused to support us until they thought we had a chance of winning, which came at the Battle of Saratoga where a vast British army was crushed by American militiamen. By the time France joined the war, we had killed or captured roughly 10,000 redcoats without help, so we were not wholly impotent.
@Robertz1986 - We were easily beating the militia, we controlled almost every key strategic point and won nearly every single battle - the problem was that there was no capital city to take and everytime we captured a city the rebels would just flee and set up somewhere else.
So I wouldn't say you were "easily beating the rebels", but I will concede that in the long run the war likely would have gone poorly without foreign intervention. Remember that while the French did eventually send troops to continental America, the aid we really received was the French attack on British colonies in India and the Caribbean, as well as British positions in Europe. The Spanish (French allies) and the Dutch (who were attacked by Britain) aided us through distraction primarily.
@Robertz1986 - The main reason we lost the revolution was not because of the French and Spanish aid. There was simply not enough political motivation to continue the war, we just concentrated more on India which was seen as "more profitable". The revolution could have still been won despite the French and Spanish aid, our fleet was far superior to both combined.
because it is a military band. Also one must remember uniforms in the Continental army were not even close to always blue and white. We used White, Red, Green, and Brown also.
Congratulations you replaced a strong functioning administration with a corrupt and greedy admin. -The unseen eye.the free masons The ordinary citizen gained little. The masons wanted to expand west and make money-they sponsored the rebellion for their gain-not the common citizen.Your French friends only helped to spite Britain,which is negative,and your Prussian friends were invited cos of your german connections.Without esp the french you would not have won.quote as much as you want -FACT
The masons had little to do with our early history, though many of our founding fathers were members. The "eye" was on our seal BEFORE it was adopted by the free masons, which is worth noting. The French were of course vital in the war, and without our strong diplomatic efforts and early military victories that would not have happened. Prussia did not fight on our side, and in fact ten thousand Germans were sent to America in the pay of the British army throughout the war.
@Robertz1986 you had a fat arsed prussian general under pay. The French army contributed far more to the yankee "revolution" than the colonists,not forgetting the Spanish and Dutch-how many did you need?Dont forget Gibson -hahaha
Your free masons took the piss out of the rabble by promising cheap
or free land which the red Indians had and the Crown specifically did NOT want to harrass -even after all the lies and deceipt from the masons only 30% of the colony wanted independence.
@Robertz1986 your money depicts the unseen eye and your monetary symbol depicts a dead serpent-a veritable diabolical basis for a "nation" hahahahah £££££££££
@Robertz1986 masonic mind even if not labeled mason in public all came from the same mind trigger an outer force whether adopted by the masons or not they eye was still definetely a masonic sign drawings rather than letters
@toonmag50 Our history consists of conquering an empire larger then most in just a few centuries (just a few years really) and assimilating most of the world to our culture. What did the Brits do? Build a few castles, exterminate a few natives and lose their empire to peasants? Some history...
@dmkavidelly I dont think yankees should point fingers about exterminating natives.Let s not forget the peasants received great help from France,Netherlands and Spain. France only helping as they were recently kicked out of N America by General Wolf commanding the British Army.
In addition yankees nearly exterminated the Confederate States of America for seceeding from their empire in the same way as the colonists did to the British Empire.
@toonmag50 You killed more, and the Africans/Indians/Asians didn't get French help. The BE was nothing but a bunch of barbarian pirates that got lucky then had their luck run out.
@dmkavidelly -yes the africans and asians received indirect German help-as after WW2 the yankees extracted most of the wealth of the Empire as payment. Pirates? perhaps you should look into how the yankees gained Hawaii for their empire,and texas and not forgetting the yankee way of buying sucess=alaska and luisiana-
@toonmag50 As opposed to starting companies only to have them go bankrupt and be taken over by the Crown... Then having the locals rebel. And how does it feel to have some of those said locals liberating the rest of the empire and taking all it's money? lol A debt payed, I say.
@dmkavidelly -an elloquent reply...almost amusing, but remember the yankees origins are based upon traitorous undermining of their own people, culture,history and institutions,to an extent that they actively invited enemies to help,and ultimately take the leading role. If in little over two life times you derive mirth in bleeding the same people following almost 11 years of world war in the 20thC (1914-1918,1939-1945) then ironic salutations to you.
@toonmag50 Our president's don't kill their wives just so they can be single and remarry. We didn't invent the concentration camp. We didn't go around telling Africans that they we SO below white we had to conquer Africa (well, except for Lincoln). We didn't go an a killing spree to build our empire (most of it was taken diplomatically).
@dmkavidelly -yes I suppose Texas and your south west was gained through very gentle diplomacy,not forgeting the invasion,occupation and the following population re- seeding of Hawaii.Lets also appreciate the force minor diplomacy in the invasion of , Mexico, Panama,Cuba and in 1980's -Grenada, recent Crown territory and a member of the British Commonwealth.
@toonmag50 Texas was an independent nation that CHOSE to join the US. The Great Plains, Alaska and the US Virgin Islands were all taken diplomatically.
@dmkavidelly -well sorry if my chronology of events in your south west is wobbly, but I thought Texas and surrounding countryside belonged to Mexico....I can remember the alamo- I also seem to recall Texas also joined your Confederacy,I assume they were politely and gently persuaded to withdraw their application.-
@toonmag50 What's all this fighting about? Britain and America, we're the closest of allies, great friends that could conquer the world side-by-side if we did choose. Stop this childish bickering.
@EdikShepherd -well strutting down a high street with fife and drum celebrating an event 200 years ago is not really an event to promote friendship-the Northern Irish do the same-and look what happened there
@toonmag50 That's a different issue. My only point is that British and Americans shouldn't be bickering over trivial past events. Both are very good countries compared to the rest of the world, like the rabble in the Middle East.
hey, i heard old 1812 there at the end, that like most of the songs that spirit of america fife and drum plays are not period, i think i should complain to disney, i want to hear moon and seven stars and free america, not this "patriotic" music that was invented till war of 1812- civil war
Thanks! Personally, I just get frustrated when I see a bunch of Britons argue with me over the American Revolution when it is barely mentioned in their national curriculum. Sometimes, it is better to educate than to go off in a string of four letter words (having a love of history also helps.)
In a bitterly ironic twist, the Loyalists who left America were bound for a place whose original real reason for not joining their neighbors to the South was lack of guarantee that the French language/civil law would receive no special protection. Their counterparts in France disagreed enough to help the Americans and later to have a revolution of their own. It would take another 100 years before the message was brought home to Canada, and then only at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Reading the Treaty of Paris of 1783 is very enlightening. One article reads that all Loyalist property in the colonies mustn't be confiscated, however, this wasn't always observed: in Virginia, a lot of property was taken, and further, many Loyalists had already long since begun the exodus to Canada.
These are the reasons why either initially engaged with the infant America, and why Franklin and his ilk saw the assets of an Eastern Seaboard location as not a strong enough bargaining chip. Nearly all engaged in strong mercantilist practices and nobody on this side of the pond was eager to return to that. (Spain, in fact, was even worse than Britain: it attached a whole caste system to the practice that eventually would be their downfall.)
Spain had similar problems. Spain, although it had a gigantic empire in the Western Hemisphere, didn't have any trade routes that would have made it easy to bring goods home: Puerto Rico and Havana were rich with sugar, slaves, and spices. Cartagena to the south was much the same (and growing because of a boom.) But it all still took quite some time to get back to Madrid.
The territory owned by France in the New World was mostly landlocked or hamstringed by an earlier treaty with London: for example, take the modern city of Detroit. Detroit would have been a valuable city since it sits on a huge river system, good for beaver fur trading. It was in the hands of the British by 1770. Louis wanted to gamble to get it back.
His counterpart, Franklin, was also pleased as punch as he finally had his bargaining chip to convince France that this was a good investment. He knew the other bargaining chip was not strong enough: France was still sore after the French and Indian war.
Knowing what I know of Adams at least, he probably was overjoyed that the French could see what he had confirmed nearly a year earlier in New Jersey, among the Continental Army: he visited an encampment there. He saw an army that could not march, couldn't drill, or do much of anything together. BUUUT, when a flock of ducks flew overhead and the ragtag bunch saw their first meal in almost a week, GOOD CHRIST, COULD THEY SHOOT IN PERFECT UNISON!!
Adams and Franklin both knew the only way they would get anywhere was by proving the worth of helping the colonists: they needed an undisputed victory. So, in September of 1777, it came: Horatio Gates trounced John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York.
Eventually, the British soldlers pissed off the Americans enough that they took the song and made up their own version narrating the war. When the Americans started winning, though, they began to play it as a slap in the face to the British soldiers, to say, "Who's the simpleton now, you bastards?"
WHat the yanks didnt understand is that the only reason they were winning is because they had the french on their side and we were making sure we were keeping canada. Dumb yanks
It is true that foreign aid was a component in winning the war: to be accurate, monetary aid was secured from the Dutch, military/finacial aid was given by Louis XVI, and Spain had been informally giving aid to the cause through shipping goods through New Orleans even before 1779.
The diplomats petitioning Europe were not stupid: they were very skilled at playing one patron off the other. The Continental Congress sent Ben Franklin to France for a reason: Franklin knew that the French loved their salons, especially noblemen's wives.
He also knew that the view in France (one that arguably has never totally gone away) of Americans was one of inbred morons: one eminent biologist said, "Everything found there is degenerate or monstrous." Thus, he very smartly played to the stereotype of the noble savage: this is why, if you enter a high end antique shop in Europe, you will find an image of Franklin wearing a coonskin cap on everything from tankards to playing cards.
His colleague, John Adams, was irate with how much time he "wasted" by going to parties and was particularly nervous that Franklin's dilettante ways would later translate into exchanging George III for Louis as a king, same problem, different man to kow-tow to. He knew that currently America had a standing army but no navy (see the battle of New York in 1776 for why this was a problem, as if the Americans had ships the city of NY could have been freed.)
Riding...pony= Couldn't afford a real horse, just a mutt
Macaroni part=Effeminate fool thought he was the height of fashion with his feather and pony
Keep.....handy=Keep up the facade with the colonial girls(they'll sleep with anyTHING anyway)...you'll never be a REAL gentleman. You're not fooling anyone.
When war broke out, the British Army often would play the song after the colonial militias would lose a battle. The meaning of the words are very cruel......especially after you've lost all your pals in open battle...
it fits musically, but its played differently than that, for the first part, it has a 5 stroke roll, 6 flams, 5 stroke roll, 6 flams, 5 stroke roll, 3 flams, then a six-o-let or however you say it, and another eighth or sixteenth note, forgot which, then 2 flams, then 2 5 stroke rolls, then it repeats, and then the next part has a lot of drags, flams, and sixteenth notes, and ends with 2 flams and 2 5 strike rolls
Personally, I love England and so therefore whitesoxluvr- I don't agree with you and you should just drop the argument before England 12321 kicks your ass even more.
I beg your pardon? We stupid Brits didn't like it? Don't worry mate we're used to you Yanks stealing things from us. Clearly this video is a complete contradiction, British redcoats playing yankee doodle to an American flag? This would never happen.
um ok learn up your history American military officers had red Jackets WITH BLUE!!! brits only had red and white.and i nvr said tht todays brits rnt dumb but sometimes i cant satnd ure accents.And we can manage on our own we dont need to steal things from u if you know and culture America is one of the most POWERFUL countries in the WORLD!MORE POWERFUL THAN u. we could EASILY beat your military.
Firstly fare enough i didn't know about the blue bits. Secondly just because you can't understand our accents doesn't make us dumb, it's quite the other way round really isn't it? We can't understand your accents so that makes you dumb.
And that's just typical American, absolute typical American, "ohh we'll destroy the world" you couldn't beat aload of rice pickers with shovles in the Vietnamese war, you can't beat alod of rag heads with trowels in the Iraq war.
, your cowardest of a country can NOT fight ground to ground as is evident of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Your army is shit, Britain rule the waves in Naval force, and your air force build planes they can't even fly, you americans always chat shit about owning the world DO IT ALREADY FOR FUCK SAKE, your all mouth no action, we had the biggest empire in history. So before you start mouthing off about owning shit you couldn't even touch, i'de think twice. Don't mess with us Brits.
i think same...but about dnt mess with brits is kinda cruel....dont mess wit us latinos is wut i say =P but yea im american and half latino and i respect the brits because theres no point in hating u guys..=/ every body is thu same..oh and americans dnt have accents we speek normal in english if u meen wen we speek ur language then never mind
If it wasn't for the WORLD then CONTINENTAL EUROPE would have been under German rule, but Britain did fine thanks. The only threat Germany was to Britain was during the Battle of Britain when we single handedlykicked the shit out of them in air and Operation SeaLion, which Britain single handely foiled and kicked the shit out of them at sea.. so America was a lost cause to us .. and if i wasn't for Britain then the Japs woud have owned Hawaii now, Britain was the only nation to come to your aid.
me thinks you protesteth to much. Come join us in Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness - beats being walked upon by so-called nobles and monarchs. Here we are all kings as we should be - according to our desires and manifestation thereof. America has so much more to offer - she has just begun to thrive - what say you - join us - you already speak our tongue and we ALREADY SAVED YOU FROM THE GERMANS, as well as the RUSSIANS. Come now, you know you envy us - and our FOUNDERS for throwingoffthe yoke!
That said...I do admire the British people for their perserverence in the face of adversity from the Victorian sweatshops to the inundation of their very unique culture. Theirs is a people whom we as Americans share a common history prior to 1776. However they're political ideals - more so economic ones are at total odds with ours - for their Fathers starting with Smith and Cobden dismantled an Empire and our Fathers Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, Roosevelts built one based on Freedom.
The Britsh Empire was a world leader for over 400 years that controlled over 1/3rd of the wold INCLUDING YOU! America has never and will never own anything CLOSE to the British Empire, you own the USA that's it.. So until the USA has held an empire for over 400 years no wait, even had 400 years of history haha until then, i suggest you pipe down haha
Vanquish...the World? Are you now saying that America is the World? Indeed true, that Canadians, Australians, and others died at Normandy - indeed true that others gave much service. But, Germany and all her might - was beaten by the manufacturing power, the idealism of, and the manpower of AMERICA. We supplied the Japanese front and German fronts - both our combined (70% more US soldiers) one in France, Italy, Africa and the Russians with arms. Dunkirk n Hitlers madness saved you prior to US
Clearly saying that the world was involved in WORLD war I+II but being the typical arrogant American, you think America took on Germany by yourselves haha the war was happening 5 years before you entered you fool. You clearly have no idea on what you are talking about, so just be quiet. Clearly no one likes you. Typical idiotic American throwing statistics about that don't even exist, wouldn't have exected anything different
It took Britain five years to fight Germany, yet we came over to England, went from there to France and won in less then a year! And England is better the America? How?
You came in at the end that's all. Britain and Russia had done all the fighting, notice how the Nazis had sent all their armies from the cities to the coast as a final resource and we still won without you. Russia took Berlin, Britain and Russia did the fighting, you just supplied us with a few tanks and ammo, maybe a few thousand men.
You didn't single handidly win you fool. It was the whole of Europe and the whole of Russia who won. You think that America, not even a world power until you started testing nukes, fought Germany all by yourself and won? Not forgetting the world dominating British Empire was fighting on land and also in the seas with it's world dominating Royal Navy and Russia the biggest country in the wolrld. You came at te climax when we had destroyed the Nazis and their morale to their knees with out you.
Just to add on here, we did raise over 16,000,000 troops, prevented Britain's destruction through lend-lease and supply lines through dangerous waters, often with our own ships... we did not defeat Germany on our own, and neither did Russia and Britain... there were still years of fighting, millions of bombs and millions of soldiers left to spend when we entered. Without American troops, bombers, and material, the war would not have ended like it did. It was a team effort.
We came after France had fallen and you were the only ones left. We came after the Axis intent of world domination was clear: if Hitler took London, he would have butchered Churchill for all to see, and the Royal Family too. the WHOLE EMPIRE would have come next, nearly a quarter of the globe. In January '42, your supplies were running low, your ships were from a different era and London was in ruins. Montgomery had not yet turned the tide in North Africa.
Most of all, we came because we felt we owed it to you once we realized what was at stake. My gramps left US in March '42 and didn't return until he hit Berlin in '45. He lost most of his friends and it scarred him for life. He was at Ste Mere Eglise, nearly died of frostbite in Belgium, got shot in Germany, and refused to talk about it for almost 40 years...until I was born.
Please, I beg you, don't disdain what my grandfather's blood purchased. His own father told him not to go-but he did.
Since you know so much of history, I'm from Southeast Missouri, is it alright for me to play the crap out of Yankee Doodle on the 4th or do I need to play Dixie? :s
Sorry I am late, but if I were you, I'd play Yankee Doodle: Dixie has some nastier connotations of days gone by. (Example: Dixie was played when Byron DeLaBeckwith beat the rap for shooting civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It was the centerpiece of the parade they threw him, all for murdering a great man of great courage.)
Nt forgetting evry German man was in the Nazi Army, being about 40mil nd u wnder y it took us 5 yrs.We're world powers, not miracle workers. + Britain was fighting 4 evry other country of Europe being Britain the only country who hadn't surrendered. Britain only engaged 1/3rd of it's Empires army strength. Still it took us 5 years to take 40mill men 2 their knees, whilst fighting for 25 countries along with our own whilst defending 25 countries and our own 5 years with out you. We did amazingly.
USA had no interest at joining the European War, and had to suffer from Pearl Harbor (maybe on purpose btw) to enter the War. Note that Germany declares war to USA before USA do.
USA always came late in the Two World Wars, Late 1917 and Late 1941.
The reason of US fast victory? Germany was fighting for 4 years against UK (North Africa and constant bombings) + USSR.
It was really easy then. USA lost only 400 000 men in the whole European battle.
We came in late to clean up the messes that European countries made! It does not matter if we came in first or last! What matters is that our ancestors left Europe to get away from the drama, and still the wars kept on piling up! We decided to stay out of Europe's conflict because we were tired of it yet we kept getting dragged into the conflict!
Wow.... American's lack of history lessons is true. Didn't think so.
That's this big-headed attitude, towards the "old continent" that made US beeing dropped by Europe during Cold War.
Also, you maybe don't know, but your dear country tried to apply AMGOT (administration for occupied territories), considering my country as an opponent.
And why don't you have any war? Maybe coz America is an island, with only Canada, Mexico and USA. Guess who's the strongest among those
USA never understood European complexity, and came 2 times, with the great ideals, promoting peace and friendship and blahblahblah. And it wasn't any kind of good answer to European problems.
It's also said that Roosvelt ignored on prupose Pearl Harbor attack, to break trough isolationnism wall. But it was still late, Europe was already nazi (but UK).
"We came [...] to clean up the messes that European countries made". Seriously, you still don't understand Europe. USA is too young to do.
Please, we got attacked during ww2 and joined the war when we did not want your problems. I understand England was and still is a great nation (except for the church!) and so is the USA, should we be talking good about each other and bad about our enemies? Last I checked we were still allies! Either we can stand strong together or die out because we hate each other! We are as strong as we are united and as weak as we are divided!
It's commonly said that Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor occurs on purpose to join the fight tough.
That's this mentality my country, from 1958 to 1969 fought. FYI i'm not from UK, but just @ south.
General De Gaulle, this well-known "fascist"(that's what Roosevelt tought and said) was saying this: "United during storms, independant during calm weather".
BTW, i don't call Pearl Harbor a huge attack. It was a mjor skirmish with major losses for a military base. But nothing on USA land.
Guess, wrong again: the US hadn't suffered an attack on its own soil since 1812 up to Pearl Harbor-up to then, the ocean protected us. It WAS a big deal. Further, the Depression was only starting to ease c. 1940: Roosevelt didn't have the votes in Congress to make war even if he wanted it. His only option was to remain neutral and supply arms to Britain AND France under the table!
"It's commonly said that Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor occurs on purpose to join the fight tough."
CONGRESS alone has the power to declare war. Both Houses must have a 2/3 majority. Roosevelt did not have it, as I have said. Further, his administration was curtailing trade with Japan long before '41:Japan interpreted this as a loss of face. After TEN investigations into the matter, evidence points to a sucker punch attack where FDR & Congress underestimated Japan's intent.
Very well..but ask yourself this: millions of people fled Europe for America well into the twentieth century as a direct result of its problems. We have old women with numbers from Auschwitz tattooed on their arms. We have memories of grandparents and other ascendants telling children of famine, class warfare, and their stories getting told and retold constantly. The song Fields of Athenry is just as popular here as in Ireland. We remember the dead.
Further, by YOUR own admission you are French: liberté, egalité, fraternité, I believe, is a traditionally French motto. However, there is no law in France that reads like this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Tell me, how're Muslims doing in French society when they are forced to remove their veils because it does not fit the idea of "Frenchness?" An old country does not a wise one make!
Prior to your deleted comment, funnily enough, we founded you, we settled you, we owned u, you speak MY tongue. Walked upon by Monarchs? LOL you have no clue what you are talking about, funnily enough hasn't every President been as corrupt as the next? Haha, you Americans are the biggest buch of brainwashed, undereducated, idiotic people in the entire world. Atleast my government doesn't blow up some towers in it's own country to wage war on another, we still have our tower lmao, Tower of London
Okay wait, why are we debating this? We are commenting on a video from Youtube created in America, whom was bought by Google which was founded in America, and above all, the internet was developed in America. Thank the US for it's culture and creation. I respect all nations. I believe there is a best nation for every individual, I personally like the freedom, privacy, money, health, history, laws, culture, and politics of the United States of America. I just hope we don't "change".
ARPANET was a US military application used in the 60's and 70's. It was the forerunner of the world wide web (the technology and how to run it was shared with the UK, though; MI6 needed it for Cold War ops/peeking over Nikita's shoulder.)
Yankee Doodle appears to be an old tune, probably originally from Ireland (it bears resemblance to the old slip jig.) It was known almost a century before 1776, and was popular all over the Empire.
However, during the French and Indian War, it was played as a means to make fun of the colonial soldiers. (Nearly all officers would have been from England, and many of those were landed gents.) It was called "Brother Israel" and narrated how some bumpkin had to sell everything to get his commissioned rank.
Like it's a sideshow. Sigh...
je25ff 1 week ago
Disney took a big fat shit chucked in a classic partiotic tune and this is whats left over
Chazb5046 6 months ago
Hmm this song was made by the Brits to take the piss out of the Americans...just saying :P
jamsbruno1 6 months ago
THE "MODERN" PEOPLE RUIN THIS VIDEO
JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL 7 months ago
the reason their wearing Redcoats is because all military Bandsmen of the period, in all armies, wore the reverse colours of the line infantrys coats, British Bandsmen mainly wore yellow coats as their comrades in the line companies(fighting) wore mainly Red coats with yellow facings
mickavalon1 1 year ago 2
@mickavalon1 Thanks for the explanation! I'm not sure about other military forces, but I think the US Marine Corps band upholds that tradition to this day with their dress uniforms. The other marines wear a very dark blue and the enlisted troops have red piping, but last time I checked the USMC band wears bright red dress uniforms.
heavyarms01h 7 months ago
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It's funny because that was an insult to themselves and because they had to dress up as the British because they were too scared to wear their own uniforms whilst playing. Look it up if you don't believe me. :P
LolFishFail 1 year ago
It's funny because that was an insult to themselves and because they had to dress up as the British because they were too scared to wear their own uniforms whilst playing. Look it up if you don't believe me. :P
LolFishFail 1 year ago
@LolFishFail Actualy that is false...Billerica, Massachusetts is the home of the original Yankee Doodle, Thomas Ditson. He was charged with attempting to get a British solider drunk in order to steal his musket (because the British government outlawed the acquisition of new firearms in Massachusetts, and Virginia). The British soliders then tarred and feathered Thomas Ditson in the center of town and then paraded him out of town in exile. Militias from Mass adopted this tune in tribute to him
EmptyBottleTherapies 1 year ago
@LolFishFail The actual reason why these men are wearing Red Coats, is because the British Army used this song as an insult, and the Colonists used it in return as mockery...Kind of like the "N" word with african-americans...originaly a compliment, turned insult, then used by the "slaves" as a term of endearment, and mockery. (not anymore today, but back then it was)
EmptyBottleTherapies 1 year ago
@LolFishFail Plus in the early days of the revolution, it was much like the American Civil War...Many confederate soliders and "Color Guards" continued to use their old Blue suits of the Union Army, because there wasn't many official uniforms at the wars' start. American colonists, like their confderate counterparts had two options during the early months and years of war...wear your plain clothes, or wear your old uniform (if you were in the army previously) until new uniforms were available.
EmptyBottleTherapies 1 year ago
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nice customs also :) yankoo doodle went to town, riding on a pooony
PaulRietvoorn 1 year ago
OMG I actually saw that in person!!! It was so cool 'cause I was thinkin' about it days before hand and then I actually got to see it...GO EPCOT!!! :D
picklechick9 1 year ago
Lol. There's nothing more American than Disneyland.
Sami7685 1 year ago
@Sami7685 what about Fried Chicken.
Thrawn6211 1 year ago
Why do they have red coats playing yankee doodle?
Joshjeff1611 1 year ago
@Joshjeff1611 The band wore reverse colors during battle to indicate that they were not combatants.
Sami7685 1 year ago
"our song"?
It was Britain's song. But you Americans nick everything like always.
NottinghamForest22 2 years ago
The song was sung by the British to mock Americans starting during the Seven Years War and the fighting in North America. Though it was meant to insult us, we adopted it and even played it as the British handed over their weapons and flags after the Royal expeditionary force was crushed at Yorktown and the British Empire capitulated to the United States.
Robertz1986 1 year ago
yes I know my dear. We lost because the French, Dutch and Spanish arrived and severly outnumbered us and because the French fleet stopped us from delivering supplies, not because of you yanks. Before the other European countries intervened Britain was easily beating the rebels. Redcoats vs militia wasn't much of a contest. You make it sound as if Britain lost its empire to the US. We owned a quarter of the world after losing the 13 colonies.
NottinghamForest22 1 year ago
"Redcoats vs militia wasn't much of a contest"
You do realize that after the Battle of Lexington we had to fight alone for about three years before France joined the war effort. France originally refused to support us until they thought we had a chance of winning, which came at the Battle of Saratoga where a vast British army was crushed by American militiamen. By the time France joined the war, we had killed or captured roughly 10,000 redcoats without help, so we were not wholly impotent.
Robertz1986 1 year ago
@Robertz1986 - We were easily beating the militia, we controlled almost every key strategic point and won nearly every single battle - the problem was that there was no capital city to take and everytime we captured a city the rebels would just flee and set up somewhere else.
BeefyStoner 1 year ago
So I wouldn't say you were "easily beating the rebels", but I will concede that in the long run the war likely would have gone poorly without foreign intervention. Remember that while the French did eventually send troops to continental America, the aid we really received was the French attack on British colonies in India and the Caribbean, as well as British positions in Europe. The Spanish (French allies) and the Dutch (who were attacked by Britain) aided us through distraction primarily.
Robertz1986 1 year ago
@Robertz1986 - The main reason we lost the revolution was not because of the French and Spanish aid. There was simply not enough political motivation to continue the war, we just concentrated more on India which was seen as "more profitable". The revolution could have still been won despite the French and Spanish aid, our fleet was far superior to both combined.
BeefyStoner 1 year ago
Why are Red coats singing our song?
MrHairyNutz 2 years ago
because it is a military band. Also one must remember uniforms in the Continental army were not even close to always blue and white. We used White, Red, Green, and Brown also.
DrKorn5 2 years ago
Congratulations you replaced a strong functioning administration with a corrupt and greedy admin. -The unseen eye.the free masons The ordinary citizen gained little. The masons wanted to expand west and make money-they sponsored the rebellion for their gain-not the common citizen.Your French friends only helped to spite Britain,which is negative,and your Prussian friends were invited cos of your german connections.Without esp the french you would not have won.quote as much as you want -FACT
toonmag50 2 years ago
The masons had little to do with our early history, though many of our founding fathers were members. The "eye" was on our seal BEFORE it was adopted by the free masons, which is worth noting. The French were of course vital in the war, and without our strong diplomatic efforts and early military victories that would not have happened. Prussia did not fight on our side, and in fact ten thousand Germans were sent to America in the pay of the British army throughout the war.
Robertz1986 1 year ago
@Robertz1986 you had a fat arsed prussian general under pay. The French army contributed far more to the yankee "revolution" than the colonists,not forgetting the Spanish and Dutch-how many did you need?Dont forget Gibson -hahaha
Your free masons took the piss out of the rabble by promising cheap
or free land which the red Indians had and the Crown specifically did NOT want to harrass -even after all the lies and deceipt from the masons only 30% of the colony wanted independence.
toonmag50 1 year ago
@Robertz1986 your money depicts the unseen eye and your monetary symbol depicts a dead serpent-a veritable diabolical basis for a "nation" hahahahah £££££££££
toonmag50 1 year ago
@Robertz1986 masonic mind even if not labeled mason in public all came from the same mind trigger an outer force whether adopted by the masons or not they eye was still definetely a masonic sign drawings rather than letters
andyjy2015 1 year ago
you yankees are certainly cock sure with your facts.what was the fact in 1812-oh yes you had your capital torched oh dear,what a shame,how sad
toonmag50 2 years ago
sure must be sad that we kicked your british ass twich bitch
samsungfan1041 2 years ago
Oh yeah what a shame....guess what.....we built another one lol.
TheImperialistStates 2 years ago
HEY whats black,smouldering and smells of furniture?
your white house
HAHAHAHAHAHA
toonmag50 2 years ago
Seems to be doing fine to me.=)
TheImperialistStates 2 years ago
@toonmag50
I thought it was the Parliament Building in Toronto. :D
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly Canada has a sense of history and cuture which spans well beyond the 18thC
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 You're point?
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly -yankees dont
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 Our history consists of conquering an empire larger then most in just a few centuries (just a few years really) and assimilating most of the world to our culture. What did the Brits do? Build a few castles, exterminate a few natives and lose their empire to peasants? Some history...
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly I dont think yankees should point fingers about exterminating natives.Let s not forget the peasants received great help from France,Netherlands and Spain. France only helping as they were recently kicked out of N America by General Wolf commanding the British Army.
In addition yankees nearly exterminated the Confederate States of America for seceeding from their empire in the same way as the colonists did to the British Empire.
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 You killed more, and the Africans/Indians/Asians didn't get French help. The BE was nothing but a bunch of barbarian pirates that got lucky then had their luck run out.
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly -yes the africans and asians received indirect German help-as after WW2 the yankees extracted most of the wealth of the Empire as payment. Pirates? perhaps you should look into how the yankees gained Hawaii for their empire,and texas and not forgetting the yankee way of buying sucess=alaska and luisiana-
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 As opposed to starting companies only to have them go bankrupt and be taken over by the Crown... Then having the locals rebel. And how does it feel to have some of those said locals liberating the rest of the empire and taking all it's money? lol A debt payed, I say.
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly -an elloquent reply...almost amusing, but remember the yankees origins are based upon traitorous undermining of their own people, culture,history and institutions,to an extent that they actively invited enemies to help,and ultimately take the leading role. If in little over two life times you derive mirth in bleeding the same people following almost 11 years of world war in the 20thC (1914-1918,1939-1945) then ironic salutations to you.
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 Our president's don't kill their wives just so they can be single and remarry. We didn't invent the concentration camp. We didn't go around telling Africans that they we SO below white we had to conquer Africa (well, except for Lincoln). We didn't go an a killing spree to build our empire (most of it was taken diplomatically).
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly -yes I suppose Texas and your south west was gained through very gentle diplomacy,not forgeting the invasion,occupation and the following population re- seeding of Hawaii.Lets also appreciate the force minor diplomacy in the invasion of , Mexico, Panama,Cuba and in 1980's -Grenada, recent Crown territory and a member of the British Commonwealth.
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 Texas was an independent nation that CHOSE to join the US. The Great Plains, Alaska and the US Virgin Islands were all taken diplomatically.
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly -well sorry if my chronology of events in your south west is wobbly, but I thought Texas and surrounding countryside belonged to Mexico....I can remember the alamo- I also seem to recall Texas also joined your Confederacy,I assume they were politely and gently persuaded to withdraw their application.-
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 lol Typical Brit.
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@toonmag50 What's all this fighting about? Britain and America, we're the closest of allies, great friends that could conquer the world side-by-side if we did choose. Stop this childish bickering.
EdikShepherd 1 year ago
@EdikShepherd -well strutting down a high street with fife and drum celebrating an event 200 years ago is not really an event to promote friendship-the Northern Irish do the same-and look what happened there
toonmag50 1 year ago
@toonmag50 That's a different issue. My only point is that British and Americans shouldn't be bickering over trivial past events. Both are very good countries compared to the rest of the world, like the rabble in the Middle East.
EdikShepherd 1 year ago
hey, i heard old 1812 there at the end, that like most of the songs that spirit of america fife and drum plays are not period, i think i should complain to disney, i want to hear moon and seven stars and free america, not this "patriotic" music that was invented till war of 1812- civil war
hessianfifer 2 years ago
holy smokes shadowkitty you wrote like a book! :p
Boilingclay 2 years ago
Thanks! Personally, I just get frustrated when I see a bunch of Britons argue with me over the American Revolution when it is barely mentioned in their national curriculum. Sometimes, it is better to educate than to go off in a string of four letter words (having a love of history also helps.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
In a bitterly ironic twist, the Loyalists who left America were bound for a place whose original real reason for not joining their neighbors to the South was lack of guarantee that the French language/civil law would receive no special protection. Their counterparts in France disagreed enough to help the Americans and later to have a revolution of their own. It would take another 100 years before the message was brought home to Canada, and then only at Her Majesty's pleasure.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Reading the Treaty of Paris of 1783 is very enlightening. One article reads that all Loyalist property in the colonies mustn't be confiscated, however, this wasn't always observed: in Virginia, a lot of property was taken, and further, many Loyalists had already long since begun the exodus to Canada.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
These are the reasons why either initially engaged with the infant America, and why Franklin and his ilk saw the assets of an Eastern Seaboard location as not a strong enough bargaining chip. Nearly all engaged in strong mercantilist practices and nobody on this side of the pond was eager to return to that. (Spain, in fact, was even worse than Britain: it attached a whole caste system to the practice that eventually would be their downfall.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Spain had similar problems. Spain, although it had a gigantic empire in the Western Hemisphere, didn't have any trade routes that would have made it easy to bring goods home: Puerto Rico and Havana were rich with sugar, slaves, and spices. Cartagena to the south was much the same (and growing because of a boom.) But it all still took quite some time to get back to Madrid.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
The territory owned by France in the New World was mostly landlocked or hamstringed by an earlier treaty with London: for example, take the modern city of Detroit. Detroit would have been a valuable city since it sits on a huge river system, good for beaver fur trading. It was in the hands of the British by 1770. Louis wanted to gamble to get it back.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
His counterpart, Franklin, was also pleased as punch as he finally had his bargaining chip to convince France that this was a good investment. He knew the other bargaining chip was not strong enough: France was still sore after the French and Indian war.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Knowing what I know of Adams at least, he probably was overjoyed that the French could see what he had confirmed nearly a year earlier in New Jersey, among the Continental Army: he visited an encampment there. He saw an army that could not march, couldn't drill, or do much of anything together. BUUUT, when a flock of ducks flew overhead and the ragtag bunch saw their first meal in almost a week, GOOD CHRIST, COULD THEY SHOOT IN PERFECT UNISON!!
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Adams and Franklin both knew the only way they would get anywhere was by proving the worth of helping the colonists: they needed an undisputed victory. So, in September of 1777, it came: Horatio Gates trounced John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Eventually, the British soldlers pissed off the Americans enough that they took the song and made up their own version narrating the war. When the Americans started winning, though, they began to play it as a slap in the face to the British soldiers, to say, "Who's the simpleton now, you bastards?"
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
WHat the yanks didnt understand is that the only reason they were winning is because they had the french on their side and we were making sure we were keeping canada. Dumb yanks
jdi0093113 2 years ago
It is true that foreign aid was a component in winning the war: to be accurate, monetary aid was secured from the Dutch, military/finacial aid was given by Louis XVI, and Spain had been informally giving aid to the cause through shipping goods through New Orleans even before 1779.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
BUT....there are some other facts that you have ignored....
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
The diplomats petitioning Europe were not stupid: they were very skilled at playing one patron off the other. The Continental Congress sent Ben Franklin to France for a reason: Franklin knew that the French loved their salons, especially noblemen's wives.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
He also knew that the view in France (one that arguably has never totally gone away) of Americans was one of inbred morons: one eminent biologist said, "Everything found there is degenerate or monstrous." Thus, he very smartly played to the stereotype of the noble savage: this is why, if you enter a high end antique shop in Europe, you will find an image of Franklin wearing a coonskin cap on everything from tankards to playing cards.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
His colleague, John Adams, was irate with how much time he "wasted" by going to parties and was particularly nervous that Franklin's dilettante ways would later translate into exchanging George III for Louis as a king, same problem, different man to kow-tow to. He knew that currently America had a standing army but no navy (see the battle of New York in 1776 for why this was a problem, as if the Americans had ships the city of NY could have been freed.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Yankee Doodle=American fop
Riding...pony= Couldn't afford a real horse, just a mutt
Macaroni part=Effeminate fool thought he was the height of fashion with his feather and pony
Keep.....handy=Keep up the facade with the colonial girls(they'll sleep with anyTHING anyway)...you'll never be a REAL gentleman. You're not fooling anyone.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
When war broke out, the British Army often would play the song after the colonial militias would lose a battle. The meaning of the words are very cruel......especially after you've lost all your pals in open battle...
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Well, when Britain was actually a world power, they tended to be very, very cruel and unaccepting
God52495 2 years ago
WELCOME HERE AGAIN!!!! WOOOO!
( the song that was playing as it ended)
Boofa125 2 years ago
God Bless America i had 7 ancestors in the Revolutionary War, Long Live America
Reaperus101 2 years ago
4 red coats?
jurdao14785 2 years ago
Japanese music is best, uSa suckky moto
ShinnAsukaGSD 2 years ago
ya were took america from u to, brits cant fight
samsungfan1041 3 years ago
dude, learn to speak English before you insult somebody.
Jozie1 3 years ago
the drum part on this version is very odd
it fits musically, but its played differently than that, for the first part, it has a 5 stroke roll, 6 flams, 5 stroke roll, 6 flams, 5 stroke roll, 3 flams, then a six-o-let or however you say it, and another eighth or sixteenth note, forgot which, then 2 flams, then 2 5 stroke rolls, then it repeats, and then the next part has a lot of drags, flams, and sixteenth notes, and ends with 2 flams and 2 5 strike rolls
just saying, this is different
generalhaha 3 years ago
I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only person who noticed that! Good ear. :)
Jozie1 3 years ago
okay guys, just calm down okay?
Personally, I love England and so therefore whitesoxluvr- I don't agree with you and you should just drop the argument before England 12321 kicks your ass even more.
Jozie1 3 years ago
great this was orginally a british song. but we liked it so we took and and those stupid brits didnt like tht!
08whitesoxluvr 3 years ago
I beg your pardon? We stupid Brits didn't like it? Don't worry mate we're used to you Yanks stealing things from us. Clearly this video is a complete contradiction, British redcoats playing yankee doodle to an American flag? This would never happen.
England12321 3 years ago 2
um ok learn up your history American military officers had red Jackets WITH BLUE!!! brits only had red and white.and i nvr said tht todays brits rnt dumb but sometimes i cant satnd ure accents.And we can manage on our own we dont need to steal things from u if you know and culture America is one of the most POWERFUL countries in the WORLD!MORE POWERFUL THAN u. we could EASILY beat your military.
08whitesoxluvr 3 years ago
Firstly fare enough i didn't know about the blue bits. Secondly just because you can't understand our accents doesn't make us dumb, it's quite the other way round really isn't it? We can't understand your accents so that makes you dumb.
And that's just typical American, absolute typical American, "ohh we'll destroy the world" you couldn't beat aload of rice pickers with shovles in the Vietnamese war, you can't beat alod of rag heads with trowels in the Iraq war.
England12321 3 years ago
, your cowardest of a country can NOT fight ground to ground as is evident of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Your army is shit, Britain rule the waves in Naval force, and your air force build planes they can't even fly, you americans always chat shit about owning the world DO IT ALREADY FOR FUCK SAKE, your all mouth no action, we had the biggest empire in history. So before you start mouthing off about owning shit you couldn't even touch, i'de think twice. Don't mess with us Brits.
England12321 3 years ago
i think same...but about dnt mess with brits is kinda cruel....dont mess wit us latinos is wut i say =P but yea im american and half latino and i respect the brits because theres no point in hating u guys..=/ every body is thu same..oh and americans dnt have accents we speek normal in english if u meen wen we speek ur language then never mind
0997m991 3 years ago
yeah and you lost it and your nation is lost as well - if it weren't for America, you'd be under the rule of germans anyway.
northmeister 2 years ago
If it wasn't for the WORLD then CONTINENTAL EUROPE would have been under German rule, but Britain did fine thanks. The only threat Germany was to Britain was during the Battle of Britain when we single handedlykicked the shit out of them in air and Operation SeaLion, which Britain single handely foiled and kicked the shit out of them at sea.. so America was a lost cause to us .. and if i wasn't for Britain then the Japs woud have owned Hawaii now, Britain was the only nation to come to your aid.
Vanquish12321 2 years ago
me thinks you protesteth to much. Come join us in Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness - beats being walked upon by so-called nobles and monarchs. Here we are all kings as we should be - according to our desires and manifestation thereof. America has so much more to offer - she has just begun to thrive - what say you - join us - you already speak our tongue and we ALREADY SAVED YOU FROM THE GERMANS, as well as the RUSSIANS. Come now, you know you envy us - and our FOUNDERS for throwingoffthe yoke!
northmeister 2 years ago
That said...I do admire the British people for their perserverence in the face of adversity from the Victorian sweatshops to the inundation of their very unique culture. Theirs is a people whom we as Americans share a common history prior to 1776. However they're political ideals - more so economic ones are at total odds with ours - for their Fathers starting with Smith and Cobden dismantled an Empire and our Fathers Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, Roosevelts built one based on Freedom.
northmeister 2 years ago
The Britsh Empire was a world leader for over 400 years that controlled over 1/3rd of the wold INCLUDING YOU! America has never and will never own anything CLOSE to the British Empire, you own the USA that's it.. So until the USA has held an empire for over 400 years no wait, even had 400 years of history haha until then, i suggest you pipe down haha
Vanquish12321 2 years ago
Um, that fact that one can govern men with freedom and independence is more than the entire world!
CentauriCinema 2 years ago 2
Vanquish...the World? Are you now saying that America is the World? Indeed true, that Canadians, Australians, and others died at Normandy - indeed true that others gave much service. But, Germany and all her might - was beaten by the manufacturing power, the idealism of, and the manpower of AMERICA. We supplied the Japanese front and German fronts - both our combined (70% more US soldiers) one in France, Italy, Africa and the Russians with arms. Dunkirk n Hitlers madness saved you prior to US
northmeister 2 years ago
Clearly saying that the world was involved in WORLD war I+II but being the typical arrogant American, you think America took on Germany by yourselves haha the war was happening 5 years before you entered you fool. You clearly have no idea on what you are talking about, so just be quiet. Clearly no one likes you. Typical idiotic American throwing statistics about that don't even exist, wouldn't have exected anything different
Vanquish12321 2 years ago
It took Britain five years to fight Germany, yet we came over to England, went from there to France and won in less then a year! And England is better the America? How?
Edward2Rangers 2 years ago
You came in at the end that's all. Britain and Russia had done all the fighting, notice how the Nazis had sent all their armies from the cities to the coast as a final resource and we still won without you. Russia took Berlin, Britain and Russia did the fighting, you just supplied us with a few tanks and ammo, maybe a few thousand men.
England12321 2 years ago
You didn't single handidly win you fool. It was the whole of Europe and the whole of Russia who won. You think that America, not even a world power until you started testing nukes, fought Germany all by yourself and won? Not forgetting the world dominating British Empire was fighting on land and also in the seas with it's world dominating Royal Navy and Russia the biggest country in the wolrld. You came at te climax when we had destroyed the Nazis and their morale to their knees with out you.
England12321 2 years ago
Just to add on here, we did raise over 16,000,000 troops, prevented Britain's destruction through lend-lease and supply lines through dangerous waters, often with our own ships... we did not defeat Germany on our own, and neither did Russia and Britain... there were still years of fighting, millions of bombs and millions of soldiers left to spend when we entered. Without American troops, bombers, and material, the war would not have ended like it did. It was a team effort.
Robertz1986 2 years ago
We came after France had fallen and you were the only ones left. We came after the Axis intent of world domination was clear: if Hitler took London, he would have butchered Churchill for all to see, and the Royal Family too. the WHOLE EMPIRE would have come next, nearly a quarter of the globe. In January '42, your supplies were running low, your ships were from a different era and London was in ruins. Montgomery had not yet turned the tide in North Africa.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Most of all, we came because we felt we owed it to you once we realized what was at stake. My gramps left US in March '42 and didn't return until he hit Berlin in '45. He lost most of his friends and it scarred him for life. He was at Ste Mere Eglise, nearly died of frostbite in Belgium, got shot in Germany, and refused to talk about it for almost 40 years...until I was born.
Please, I beg you, don't disdain what my grandfather's blood purchased. His own father told him not to go-but he did.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Since you know so much of history, I'm from Southeast Missouri, is it alright for me to play the crap out of Yankee Doodle on the 4th or do I need to play Dixie? :s
TheNosd 2 years ago
Sorry I am late, but if I were you, I'd play Yankee Doodle: Dixie has some nastier connotations of days gone by. (Example: Dixie was played when Byron DeLaBeckwith beat the rap for shooting civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It was the centerpiece of the parade they threw him, all for murdering a great man of great courage.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Nt forgetting evry German man was in the Nazi Army, being about 40mil nd u wnder y it took us 5 yrs.We're world powers, not miracle workers. + Britain was fighting 4 evry other country of Europe being Britain the only country who hadn't surrendered. Britain only engaged 1/3rd of it's Empires army strength. Still it took us 5 years to take 40mill men 2 their knees, whilst fighting for 25 countries along with our own whilst defending 25 countries and our own 5 years with out you. We did amazingly.
England12321 2 years ago
Sorry for the mis-spelling, i had to fit my answer in that word limit.
England12321 2 years ago
USA had no interest at joining the European War, and had to suffer from Pearl Harbor (maybe on purpose btw) to enter the War. Note that Germany declares war to USA before USA do.
USA always came late in the Two World Wars, Late 1917 and Late 1941.
The reason of US fast victory? Germany was fighting for 4 years against UK (North Africa and constant bombings) + USSR.
It was really easy then. USA lost only 400 000 men in the whole European battle.
GuessIIIwho 2 years ago
We came in late to clean up the messes that European countries made! It does not matter if we came in first or last! What matters is that our ancestors left Europe to get away from the drama, and still the wars kept on piling up! We decided to stay out of Europe's conflict because we were tired of it yet we kept getting dragged into the conflict!
Edward2Rangers 2 years ago
Wow.... American's lack of history lessons is true. Didn't think so.
That's this big-headed attitude, towards the "old continent" that made US beeing dropped by Europe during Cold War.
Also, you maybe don't know, but your dear country tried to apply AMGOT (administration for occupied territories), considering my country as an opponent.
And why don't you have any war? Maybe coz America is an island, with only Canada, Mexico and USA. Guess who's the strongest among those
GuessIIIwho 2 years ago
USA never understood European complexity, and came 2 times, with the great ideals, promoting peace and friendship and blahblahblah. And it wasn't any kind of good answer to European problems.
It's also said that Roosvelt ignored on prupose Pearl Harbor attack, to break trough isolationnism wall. But it was still late, Europe was already nazi (but UK).
"We came [...] to clean up the messes that European countries made". Seriously, you still don't understand Europe. USA is too young to do.
GuessIIIwho 2 years ago
Please, we got attacked during ww2 and joined the war when we did not want your problems. I understand England was and still is a great nation (except for the church!) and so is the USA, should we be talking good about each other and bad about our enemies? Last I checked we were still allies! Either we can stand strong together or die out because we hate each other! We are as strong as we are united and as weak as we are divided!
Edward2Rangers 2 years ago
It's commonly said that Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor occurs on purpose to join the fight tough.
That's this mentality my country, from 1958 to 1969 fought. FYI i'm not from UK, but just @ south.
General De Gaulle, this well-known "fascist"(that's what Roosevelt tought and said) was saying this: "United during storms, independant during calm weather".
BTW, i don't call Pearl Harbor a huge attack. It was a mjor skirmish with major losses for a military base. But nothing on USA land.
GuessIIIwho 2 years ago
Guess, wrong again: the US hadn't suffered an attack on its own soil since 1812 up to Pearl Harbor-up to then, the ocean protected us. It WAS a big deal. Further, the Depression was only starting to ease c. 1940: Roosevelt didn't have the votes in Congress to make war even if he wanted it. His only option was to remain neutral and supply arms to Britain AND France under the table!
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
"It's commonly said that Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor occurs on purpose to join the fight tough."
CONGRESS alone has the power to declare war. Both Houses must have a 2/3 majority. Roosevelt did not have it, as I have said. Further, his administration was curtailing trade with Japan long before '41:Japan interpreted this as a loss of face. After TEN investigations into the matter, evidence points to a sucker punch attack where FDR & Congress underestimated Japan's intent.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Very well..but ask yourself this: millions of people fled Europe for America well into the twentieth century as a direct result of its problems. We have old women with numbers from Auschwitz tattooed on their arms. We have memories of grandparents and other ascendants telling children of famine, class warfare, and their stories getting told and retold constantly. The song Fields of Athenry is just as popular here as in Ireland. We remember the dead.
What is so difficult to understand?
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Further, by YOUR own admission you are French: liberté, egalité, fraternité, I believe, is a traditionally French motto. However, there is no law in France that reads like this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Tell me, how're Muslims doing in French society when they are forced to remove their veils because it does not fit the idea of "Frenchness?" An old country does not a wise one make!
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Um....False... I know history, if it wasn't for United States the AXIS would have created nukes, and blown everyone to bits.
CentauriCinema 2 years ago
Prior to your deleted comment, funnily enough, we founded you, we settled you, we owned u, you speak MY tongue. Walked upon by Monarchs? LOL you have no clue what you are talking about, funnily enough hasn't every President been as corrupt as the next? Haha, you Americans are the biggest buch of brainwashed, undereducated, idiotic people in the entire world. Atleast my government doesn't blow up some towers in it's own country to wage war on another, we still have our tower lmao, Tower of London
Vanquish12321 2 years ago
Okay wait, why are we debating this? We are commenting on a video from Youtube created in America, whom was bought by Google which was founded in America, and above all, the internet was developed in America. Thank the US for it's culture and creation. I respect all nations. I believe there is a best nation for every individual, I personally like the freedom, privacy, money, health, history, laws, culture, and politics of the United States of America. I just hope we don't "change".
CentauriCinema 2 years ago
No the internet was developed in the UK as were computers invented in the UK so with out this you wouldn't have youtube or google so thank the UK.
Vanquish12321 2 years ago
Can you back up that claim?
Edward2Rangers 2 years ago
ARPANET was a US military application used in the 60's and 70's. It was the forerunner of the world wide web (the technology and how to run it was shared with the UK, though; MI6 needed it for Cold War ops/peeking over Nikita's shoulder.)
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
(Blowing whistle) Okay, break it up! Here is the actual history
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
Yankee Doodle appears to be an old tune, probably originally from Ireland (it bears resemblance to the old slip jig.) It was known almost a century before 1776, and was popular all over the Empire.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
However, during the French and Indian War, it was played as a means to make fun of the colonial soldiers. (Nearly all officers would have been from England, and many of those were landed gents.) It was called "Brother Israel" and narrated how some bumpkin had to sell everything to get his commissioned rank.
shadowkitty56 2 years ago
I'd do that.
sillyrnu007 3 years ago 2
=P lol
leonard03 4 years ago 3