Dan Snow
speaker
15,398 appearances
106 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 103 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 24.
Appearances
Than a thousand guns fired in unison.
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Lightning forked and flashed.
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Its white heat reflected off the dark waters of the Hudson estuary.
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Rain fudded into the river's surface like volleys of musket balls.
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American sentries wrapped cloaks around them tight and took shelter in the lee of their cannon.
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Clustered thickly along the shoreline of New York City.
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The momentary flashes of lightning illuminated the harbour suddenly and each time showed the silhouettes of a forest of masts, spars, and rigging.
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Gathered around Staten Island.
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It was as if the heavens were locked in battle.
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previewing that which was about to shatter the peace on earth below.
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Friends, this was pathetic fallacy on a a very grand scale.
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But no, in fact, it was more it's much more tangible than just a literary trick.
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This storm could be as lethal as battle.
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Men were killed, surely if they were struck down by enemy fire.
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Americans, we know, were hit by bolts of lightning.
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Their mates, frisking down their corpses, found the coins melted in their pockets.
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Watchmen on exposed defensive works were struck down in this celestial onslaught.
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The pious thought that God was talking.
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Or shouting more likely.
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Others insisted it was just coincidental.
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