A Glorious Revolution

A montage paying tribute to the history and pageantry of the American Revolution from early civil disturbances to final defeat of the British at Yorktown and the subsequent ending. Accompanied by musical score by Ennio Morricone, featured in the Roland Joffe epic, "The Mission".

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Film & Animation

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• American
• Revolution
• Battle
• War
• Epic
• Washington
• Arnold
• Continental
• Congress
• Yorktown
• Saratoga
• Trenton
• Cowpens
• Patriot
• Rebel
• Redcoats
• History
• Franklin
• Declaration
• Minutemen
• Guerilla
• Princeton
• Guilford
• Monmouth
• Mission
• Ennio
• Morricone
• Redoubt
• Charge
• Germantown
• Brandywine
• Valley
• Forge
• Hale
• Revere
• Dawes
• Shot
• Heard
• Around
• World
• Boston
• New
• York
• Philadelphia
• Charleston
• Patrick
• Henry
• Bunker
• Hill
• Betsy
• Ross
• Serapis
• Bonhomme
• Richard
• King's
• Mountain

[Flowbee79]

My chronology I believe is innacurate at times. The Boston Massacre, an unfair title I know, happened before the Boston Tea Party, because I remember hearing that while John Adams despised the mob-like actions that caused the Boston...INCIDENT (is a more accurate title) he did approved much of the kind of tact and style behind the Tea Party and thought it an improvement in their protesting strategies.

[lewis16666]

Bah!!!!

Damed colonials and their war of independence... Truth is we won the war but just did'nt want it and left...

[Flowbee79]

Truth is we didn't really win, we kept going the distance with the British Army, with the French army tag-teaming with us, and the Spanish and Dutch giving us some background support, which means our diplomatic victories were just as significant than our military stamina. However, the British did tag-team with the Hessians. We just kept bloodying each other's noses until one of us gave up and gave in.

[seadog1988]

wow very good. you should make a second one

[Flowbee79]

Actually, I think I may have to do another one. I bit longer, let the pictures and messages sink in more. Might mean finding different music.

[Theodoric476]

Ironically it really did the French no good. One can argue that the real loser was France. The bankrupted the country while the Brits were making more money off their former colonies because America remained in the British economic sphere while the Brits no longer had to pay for administration of the colonies.

[TextMe843]

You idiot, in the War of 1812 we weren't trying to help the French. They were attempting to take over Europe, and they damn well did a good job. The British and their Allies mostly the Prussian's stopped them. America only wanted to trade with the French. And the USA declared war on Britain because they seized American ships and took sailors off of them. Also they disrupted trade. If it weren't for the British during Napoleons era, you might even be speaking French had they gotten that far!

[Zonnewende88]

@tyso7540 Damn right....

[tyso7540]

This isn't the Glorious Revolution. Get your titles right, dumbass.

[StrengthinGod]

1776!

[futurehelp]

Would you take 80-cal ball in heart to keep America free? Are run off like a like a gutless

Coward that day is coming soon

God bless the brave and true in sprit.

[Talbot6832]

Indeed, not only to reduce it but exterminate it. In this they failed. See Saintes 1782.

[Talbot6832]

@recliner9876 The French helped the US not for any compassion for their cause of 'liberty' but for a chance to reduce British power in North America and the Caribbean/West Indies, which was gained through the 7 Years War.

[Talbot6832]

The biggest loser of the American War of Independence was the French Bourbon Monarchy. For the British it was simply an end of a line of business because in no less than 30 years Britain would come to dominate world trade and establish the Pax Britannica.

[10trains]

@recliner9876 you need to read your history books. washington had 2000 men left until the french came to his aid. anyhow he was an ex british officer, whos ancestrel home is in washington, sunderland england - google and as for rebels they were mostley ex british colonists anyhow.

[10trains]

@recliner9876 rubbish - george washington had only 2000 men left as the rest had gone back to their homes - he was defeated until the french turned up. anyways george washington was ex british army and from an english family - google washington, sunderland tyne and wear england where his ancestrel home is. americans at that time were actually second generation british immigrants.

[otherguy9987]

i'm trying to understand your idea of "had to fight Britain" in 1812 in relation to helping the French? Do you believe this to be the caise of the War of 1812?