Dominic Sandbrook
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first heard Jul 2026
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I don't think I do have a diminished view.
I think, well, first of all, an interesting thing that may be surprising to some American listeners.
In Britain, the American Revolution is never really taught.
It's not discussed.
It doesn't really feature in our collective historical imagination.
And Americans often say, ah-ha-ha, that's because you lost.
That's not really the case, because there's nothing the British like more than a tragic defeat.
Actually, it's because it's eclipsed by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
And we only have time, we only have space in our heads for one late 18th century thing, and that is the French Revolution and Nelson and Wellington smiting Napoleon.
It's not really taught as the American Revolution.
It was always called the American War of Independence.
So it didn't really feature in my historical imagination, certainly growing up as a great revolutionary moment.
I thought of the French Revolution, of course, or the Russian Revolution.
But the American Revolution just seemed to be
And this is somebody, you know, I'm not a specialist in 18th century history at all.
But it seemed to be a parade of quite boring men talking very earnestly about liberty.
Battles that involve 20 people in a field somewhere in the great vastness of North American continent.
Yeah.
You know, it's not Waterloo.
It's not Borodino or something.
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