Dan Snow
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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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And it was indeed astonishing.
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This was, and I'm gonna deliberately pull these superluses up at the top here because it is remarkable.
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This was the biggest British force ever sent overseas to that point in history.
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In fact, friends, no army of that size had ever been deployed by any nation or empire across such a distance of ocean ever before in recorded history.
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It was an awesome statement.
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Of Britain's might?
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But also its determination to regain control of her rebellious colonies in North America.
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It was a terrifying indicator of just what those rebellious colonies were up against.
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A global superpower in the throes of an engineering, a scientific, an industrial revolution that allowed it to project such force at such distances.
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Hundreds of vessels, thousands of men, tens of thousands of muskets, hundreds of thousands of bullets, gallons of rum and barrels of beef.
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Supplied from bases.
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Thousands of miles away.
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Across angry grey seas.
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Folks, I'm taking you back to that storm lash night.
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of the twenty first of august, seventeen seventy six, two hundred and fifty years ago,
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If you're listening to this podcast when we first put it out.
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The first great pitched battle of the American Revolutionary War was about to begin.
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You listen to Dan Today's History, and this is part of my multi-year project.
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Hit all the big important Revolutionary War anniversaries.
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This time, it's the story of the largest battle in that war.
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