The Last Battle of the Revolutionary War | Blue Licks
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Today I visited Blue Licks Battlefield in Kentucky on the 240th anniversary of the battle. On August 19, 1782 the battle of blue licks took place. It was a swift battle and ended in the pioneers retreating back towards the Licking River.
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The funny thing is I was actually only going to stop by here to see the battlefield because I hadn’t been in awhile. My plan was to make a video of a covered bridge that’s about 4 miles past Blue Licks. I turned into the state park area and I saw all the tents and way more of a crowd than normal. I looked up what was going on and realized it was the anniversary! I hope you guys enjoy this video. It wasn’t planned but I did my best to cover what was going on there. Thanks for watching!
Love it when you go to a place and there is a event, you didn’t know about, going on!
What a well presented, informative, professional video! I plan on going this August 19, but feel like I just went thanks to you! I'm from Indiana about 3 hrs away. Great job.
Thank you! I hope you have a great time. It’s a really nice area and the battlefield is very well preserved
The "British" were Butler's Rangers, a militia group formed by settlers in upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Most of their relatives served in the revolutionary forces. The regiment knew the war was over, but continued to fight in order to protect their Indian allies, who still wanted to live in the American colonies, from American settlers. The British asked for the U.S. to respect their rights, but this was never agreed in the Treaty of Paris that ended the war.
That is great information thanks for sharing that Nick!
The Butler's Rangers weren't militia. They (and Roger's Rangers) were formally trained "light" infantry volunteers. They were an elite group of soldiers that were actually based in Canada. Most don't realize that the Native Americans who ambushed the Kentuckians at Bluelicks were almost entirely made up of Canadian tribes. Huron, Ottawa, Mohawk, Ojibwe, etc. and had no personal stake in Kentucky. The Butler's Rangers trained, ate, slept and fought side by side with these natives and writings from the time would state that by the time the Rangers arrived in KY from Canada, " they looked indistinguishable from their Indian counterparts".
@@jaydraines8007 Butler's Rangers and their Indian allies were almost entirely from New York and only settled in Canada as a result of the U.S. Revolution. They were employed by the British Indian Department rather than the British Army.
I'v never been there, but know of this place thanks to Hearty White on WFMU. As you point out, museums usually do include items that aren't part of the theme of their collection and hence are a surprise to many visitors.
Great find!
Thanks Isaac!
Great video! My 6th great grandfather lieutenant James Felix McGuire fought and died in the battle there. He was an Irishman who was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1734 and immigrated to America. I would love to visit the area some day and learn more about the battle.
Thank you! Wow that is incredible. You definitely should visit the area to see the battleground in person. It’s very well preserved and walking the grounds it’s easy to understand how the battle played out
He is my 6th or 7th great grandfather as well. He is also a direct descendant of the last Barons of Enniskillen in Fermanagh County Ireland.
also my distant relative, I was there that weekend but missed the ceremony
I’ll be staying at the campground and visiting the site in about a month. Looking forward to learning more about this place!
The Americans were actually not outnumbered, they numbered approximately 180 and the British coalition was only around 140. They were simply out maneuvered by Simon Girty, Daniel Boone tried to warn them about what they could be riding into but nobody wanted to listen and they learned the hard way.
Great Video from obviously a drone and from the ground. Looking forward to the Saturday, 17 August 2024, Sons of the American Revolution, National Event: "Battle of Blue Licks!"
Thank you!
Those painted saws are awesome! Cool find!
I wasn’t expecting to see that in the museum! I’ll be posting a video later today or tomorrow on the Johnson Creek Covered Bridge
@@pioneer_productions I’ll have to watch that!
That was a fantastic find!!! Loved the video Mark.
Thanks Amy!
I honour the American dead of Blue Licks - the ones that died protecting their land, honour, friends and liberty - the 7 Loyalists and Native Americans who gave their lives for an honourable cause that is - , the others got what was coming to them. No, ...... but seriously .......... there is really no difference between the way this battle is memorialized and North Korean historical propaganda - it's on the same level. Mark's video is fine - but what he is showing us is quite shameful. It completely ignores the Indians - who were fighting for their own "liberty", and the so-called "British" were fellow Americans who sympathised with and befriended the Indians, and proved their loyal allies - sticking it out with them until the bitter end. As opposed to the "patriots" who wanted to exterminate and dispossess the Native Americans (eg: the Sullivan Expedition 1779) . If you study the Revolutionary War, every time Indian warriors were encountered in significant numbers (unless they were vastly outnumbered) it was a complete and utter blood-bath for the patriots - 10 to 1 casualties against the patriots was the usual outcome, BLUE LICKS was a pretty standard "day at the office" for these guys ( see the battle of Wyoming & Oriskany), and yet these incredible North American warriors (who were clearly fighting a defensive war) are ignored and vilified, and their white American allies are "magically" turned into "British" in order to aid the propagandist nationalist narrative. You would think after 240+ years a more nuanced view of the battle would have emerged - but apparently not.