Dan Snow
speaker
15,398 appearances
106 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But in hindsight it's very clear.
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That it was a dramatic heavenly harbinger.
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Of the very earthly onslaught.
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That would follow on the morrow.
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The Americans knew that onslaught was coming.
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We expect a very bloody summer of it at New York, their commander, George Washington, wrote to his brother in early June.
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I'm sorry to say that we are not, either in men or arms.
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Prepared for it.
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For days now, the Americans had watched nervously as the largest amphibious assault fleet in North American history to that point.
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were shuffled around the harbour.
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Ships were loaded with infantrymen.
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They'd packed up their tents on Staten Island, which had briefly been a tented city, and they'd trudged aboard transport vessels.
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Naval ships, bristling with cannon on their broadsides, slid menacingly around the harbour.
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Sometimes pushing up the Hudson River to the west of Manhattan, sometimes probing up the East River between Manhattan and Long Island.
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At dusk on the night of the storm, it was clear that the job of loading those assault troops was complete.
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Topmasts were raised, yards were crossed, the frenetic crisscross of beetling open boats had stilled.
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The British Blow.
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So long anticipated.
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was about to land.
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One American witness said it was as if all London was afloat, so great was the force arrayed.
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