Gavin Newsom
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He risked his life and his fortune.
And his sacred honor in support of this thing.
And that's unbelievable.
And so did a 14-year-old kid named John Greenwood from Boston.
So did a 15-year-old named Joseph Plum Martin from Connecticut.
So did a lot of people that we don't know their stories who just said, yeah, I'm throwing in with this lot.
it behooved most Native Americans to side with the British because they think at least they could forestall the onslaught into their territory of the Ohio Valley.
It was a short-term arrangement.
And then many times the British, whose empire depended entirely on the wealth that was generated from slavery, particularly in the Caribbean, they had 13 colonies there that were huge profit centers, only South Carolina and Virginia, for the reasons you can assume,
our profit centers.
The rest of the colonies aren't.
But we're populated and we make things.
So we're good trading partners.
And they want to keep us from taking Indian land because they can't afford to protect us.
And we want to take Indian land.
So it's not just taxes and representation.
So you begin to see this like dropping a stone in the water and you follow the ripples out and it becomes so amazing that we see... Lexington Green...
April 19th, 1775, the chances of success are zero.
And six and a half years later, on the 17th of October at Yorktown, they're 100%.
Don't you want to know how that happened?