Dorie Miller is slated to get his in the next year or so, even though 90% of the country has no idea who he is. They probably all saw Cuba Gooding junior play him as a cameo in that shitty Pearl Harbor movie too. Admiral Grace Hopper deserves a ship named after her too. She created the first coding language for computers back when they used punch cards. Modern computers probably wouldn’t exist as they are without her. I think she’d be right pleased to see a research vessel given her name.
I'd heard about him before but never read about his life in detail. Having done so now, it is honestly *bizarre* that he didn't already have a ship named after him over the past 200 years. It's honestly hard to imagine any reason why he didn't other than intentional racism extending all the way to the present day.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Personally I thought you were rubbing it in for all the people who will be upset about it being renamed after Smalls. Oh I fully support rubbing it in honestly. These people deserve to have it rubbed in their face all day long. There are times when gloating is appropriate. Robert Smalls getting a ship named after him is definitely one of those times. There are so many people in history who deserve their own movies. If we were to focus on them more maybe their examples would inspire people to move past everything holding them back now.
The life of Robert Smalls could be a movie. It's really incredible. He was quite a man. I find it quite fitting that his name will replace that of Chancellorsville
It is indeed. I heard his story in Professor Henry Louix Gates' series on African-American history. Probably *long* overdue for the Navy to name a ship for him. Him and Dorie Miller.
Drunk History on Comedy Central did a segment on this man and I could not agree more. It’d make a great movie. I’m sure it get review bombed by the same people who can’t define “woke” but I’d definitely go see it. Apparently, there is a lot of fertile territory when it comes to stories about the civil war.
Every time I hear stories aobut Robert Smalls, I am amazed that a movie or mini-series hasn't been made about this great American hero...but then I remember the systemic racism in the United States of America, and I cease to wonder.
@@selalewow I wonder if "Yankwashing" is a term...It was Canadian Ambassador Taylor other Canadian Embassy staff who harboured the Americans, and Taylor was the one who came up with the idea to get them out of Tehran. Even President Jimmy Carter stated that the CIA was the junior partner in the "Canadian Caper" as it became known as.
@@FarrellMcGovern I'm going to be using the term Yankwashing from now on every time I see another damn American made movie about WWII that makes it look like they were the big damn heroes who saved everyone else's skin, when they really came in at the last minute, after the rest of us had been fighting for years! (Not to mention all the American industrialists who had been supplying the Nazis, but are somehow never mentioned, and were never censured for their war crimes...) As context, my Ukranian-born grandfather was in the Canadian army in WWII. He married my Serbian-born grandmother when he got home, and thus I exist. Up north here, we don't brag about what we did in the wars. Our people did their duty, then came home and didn't really talk about it. It was horrible, not glorious, and we see no reason to brag about simply doing what was right. (rant over.)
@@FarrellMcGovern We Canadians don't brag much but when they give a massive piece of BS several Oscars just because it panders to the American ego we do get a little salty.
@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 alright.... You're the dude from the Quaker oats box.... I'm the dude that says Pepperidge farms remembers..... Is this a turf dispute?
At first I thought who cares about Navy names but I really enjoyed the story. Beau, you are a very good story tellet and, as usual, I appreciate the history lesson.
@@ElGrandoCaymano A battle the USA lost. Was the ship honoring the USA's loss or the Confederacy's win? I think we all know which, and that is why they are renaming it.
Thanks for sharing that story of a strong and courageous black man's struggles to make his significant mark on history during the most difficult times. I am most saddened by the fact that the children of FL will never learn this inspiringly uplifting saga in their schools. The struggle continues almost 200 years later. 😥
Wow. Never heard of the man. History in school was boring & nothing more than memorizing dates of certain WHITE MAN'S events. Thank you. I will have to look up this man & read the full story now.
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Yes!!!! I thought the same. I have read unceasingly since school ended and there are so many men of color and women who have done amazing, incredible things!!! Smalls was one of them.
Thanks for the insight in this video, sounds like they did good with this renaming process. Did not know of Robert Smalls or his history, and what he did as an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Let alone how he freed his and others families during the war. Thanks USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser
I can't wait until the right wingers start saying "Russian and China wouldn't rename ships!" (anyone that knows anything about the Russian and Chinese navies will find that hilarious)
traditionally renaming ships is bad luck. it's not a "right wing" thing it's a sailor thing. now, renaming enemy ships you've captured in battle is just fine. but a ship that's already commissioned? you don't change the name because of the whims of who happens to be in charge in washington. otherwise the USS Ronald Reagan becomes the USS Nancy Pelosi and back again every few years.
Sounds like Robert Smalls is someone I should’ve learned about in US History when I was in school. I’m sorry I’ve never heard of him, but so glad I know of him now. He is a TRUE hero!!
I had never heard of Robert Smalls before I went to Charleston and saw the plaque about him. He sailed his ship out from the harbor there. It is pretty sad that he has not been celebrated more. I'm glad to see Marie Tharp getting recognition also. She had a lot less to overcome, but still her contributions to science were almost lost to sexism. I love all the people saying Smalls' life should be a movie/tv series. Truly, he lived an amazing life, and should be celebrated as the American hero that he is!
Wow. I have never heard of this person who was incredibly brave and a leader of people through such treacherous waters. I went to school in the 80's & early 90's This story should be part of high school history curriculum.
Thank you for this story, Beau. I am from SC and I can assure you I did not read this in the William Gilmore Simms SC History we had in the 7th grade. I understand Simms was a huge defender of slavery! Smalls should have been recognized a century and a half ago!
Once again, Beau sends me scrambling for the history books. Amazing feat from an amazing man; the very definition of sangfroid. So glad Mr Smalls is getting his due.
Now *there* is a story that needed telling. Thanks, Beau. I can't wait for CVN 81 the next USS Doris Miller to be fully commissioned once she's finished.
When...where...date...I wanna be there...I use to live in Austin Texas...and Doris's story is there...from IH35 all the way to hyway 181 heading to Houston on the back roads of HWY 290...
I served on cv-64 and cvn-65. I cannot wait for the uss doris miller. One of the biggest heroes at pearl harbor. He lost his life a couple years later on another ship during a kamikazee attack. FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS SHIPMATE!
You reminded me of something and how ironic things are things are today. When you and I were in school, we were required to do biography reviews, remember. Write read books. Thus, review the history of the individual, perhaps even do a little skit or an oral report, at least, that's what I had to do. I had to do that all through high school, too. My son, who is in 11th grade now, has not had to do one bibliography report thru all 1st thru 11 grade. So you are right. This would be great for a report that a kid could do for school. The kicker is that they do not need to know the heroes or the courage and white feathers (inside joke) of the past. They are not asked to even watch a movie with all the incomplete truths about the past. He was taught that titanic was just a ship, and it basically sunk. He was taught about Pearl Harbor for about ten minutes and that it virtually had nothing to do with World War II. I think the importance of reading biographies or documentaries about historic people is beyond required is needed. The importance is more than just knowing what they did. It's to envision that you yourself can go above and beyond the minimal opportunity of your existence as a child and become exceptional.
Those are good, solid, sensible names for ships. Frankly, Smalls should be an award-winning miniseries. I was hoping for a stunningly stupid name on one, though. Like Shippy McShipface, Maximum Spiders, or The Funk Engine.
@newf newf. Consider it an "homage" or an influence result.... imitative flattery. 😁 There's even a strain of cannabis - hi CBD for sale in Canada called "Boaty McBoatface" Bes' kind.....
Before this post I had no idea who Smalls was. Always happy to be enlightened. Based on what you've said about him, he was pretty damned awesome and should have been honored a long time ago.
I’m glad we lost the war. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts in this video. When I first heard about him a few years back in a podcast I could only thing wow. In addition I was also very grateful that I have grown up a lot. I’m glad we lost the war When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s I would’ve never said that. And I’m finally letting go of the name too. The war for southern independence is not the best name for the conflict. Tell the truth I’ve gone from being a John Brown heater to a John Brown admirer. The first time I saw Spartacus on TV sometime in the 60s I thought the character was good guy! I could not see that my condemnation of John Brown with his body molding in the ground Was a contradiction.
Paul, thanks for such an honest comment. It takes courage and a big heart to publicly share an embarrassing past. Good on you for seeing it and doing the work to become the better person you are now🙂.
You lost the war. But accepting that means you remember history and do not want to repeat it. Germany has their laws against neonancies not to self-hate on white folks, but for the old adage "those who ignore the past will repeat it". Same here. YOU remember history, and therefore less likely to repeat it. The civil war in the USA is remembered not to rain on confederate cornflakes or to be anti-white or brown people made it happen due to "woke ideology neomarxism wordsalad", but because it happened, and trying to redo the war by those who had a flag trained into them as "confederate" when it was not widely used and didn't mean that because "TV", is how you forget the past and then egg on to recreate it.
Lol makes me think of Drachinifel's "Voyage of the Damned" video. If you know, you know. ;) And it makes what happened to the Moskva so much easier to understand.
Always learning on your channel. Thinking that the hijacking of your own slave ship, and turning it over to the union, should qualify for a Spy vs Spy badge
I was US Navy for 4 years and love Naval History. I've read some about Smalls. Frankly, it's American Hero type stuff deserving of a movie, but I'm actually surprised he did not have a Navy Ship named for him yet. It's about time.
It is such a tragedy that Robert Smalls is mot already a household name. I'm embarrassed to say that I am a licensed social studies teacher and have never heard of him. He should have had a ship named after him a long time ago!
I never knew this and if I learned nothing else from this channel it would be worth all the time I have spent watching these years. Except I have learned so much more. Thank you and I am so impressed with this move by the US Military.
This is amazing. I had never heard of him, but now ... I wanna know everything about him! I absolutely love your channel! Thank you for teaching me something about our history!
Thanks Beau. I'll definitely check this story out. You finally mentioned something I wasn't already aware of. This counts as learning something new every day for me.
I look forward to the upcoming films about Smalls' life and career. His story was quite climactic to similar stories that occurred here and there on coasts and borders of the U.S. from colonial times through our great decolonization.
Thank you for educating us, Beau! Black people are probably tired of having to keep teaching us white folks about history; it’s way past time we make the effort to educate ourselves and each other. 💜
Smalls was 100% American badass. Not only for his naval service (which alone should have gotten him a ship named after him) but what he did beyond Including serving in Congress. When Rear Admiral DuPont describes you as the finest naval officer he has seen irrespective of race in 1862, that says a lot about how intelligent and capable an officer Smalls was.
As much as I am in favor of not having ships named after Confederate victories, renaming the Chancellorsville now in this way is an odd choice. The ship is an old cruiser that is due to be decommissioned within the next couple of years, so it won't be carrying its new name for long. Robert Smalls deserves to have a new destroyer named after him, or maybe one of the upcoming frigates.
Robert Smalls is an absolutely incredible person. So much so that reading the Wikipedia page about him is riveting. If there was ever some HBO historical drama series to be made about someone, he's the guy.
Awesome !! Thanks Beau ! By the way, according to Wikipedia, the US Army named a logistics ship in his honor. That will ( I think ) make him the first person in American history to have a ship or installation named in his honor by two branches of the armed forces. Netflix IS working on a movie. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
Im not worried about renaming things deliberately named after enemies of the state, I'm worried why they were named that way in the first place, and why people chose to defend that behavior rather than see it for what it is.
MARIE THARP was celebrated recently (November 2022) by a Google doodle. a scientist, she had the usual story of female scientists of that era (1940-50’s), where SHE was the actual scientist who discovered something, and it required a MALE colleague to verify her findings. she mapped out the bottom surface of the Atlantic ocean and discovered the great midatlantic ridge and helped prove PLATE TECTONICS.
Incredible!!! So amazing. African Americans have given it all - blood, sweat, and tears to this country. And they're still fighting to keep this country together and on the right path. Heres to the awesome Mr. Smalls!!
Navy veteran here. I'm SO glad Smalls is getting a ship named after him. It should have happened years ago. Dude was amazing.
Dorie Miller is slated to get his in the next year or so, even though 90% of the country has no idea who he is. They probably all saw Cuba Gooding junior play him as a cameo in that shitty Pearl Harbor movie too.
Admiral Grace Hopper deserves a ship named after her too. She created the first coding language for computers back when they used punch cards. Modern computers probably wouldn’t exist as they are without her. I think she’d be right pleased to see a research vessel given her name.
@@derpeth2101
That's not a bad point. Certainly adds to the complexity of these decisions.
AD2 Vet as well, we should name some for the Indian nation's people.
@@derpeth2101 what imperialism?
even given the broadest use of that word, the US hasn't done any imperialist actions in...2 decades now.
I'd heard about him before but never read about his life in detail. Having done so now, it is honestly *bizarre* that he didn't already have a ship named after him over the past 200 years. It's honestly hard to imagine any reason why he didn't other than intentional racism extending all the way to the present day.
I like how Beau just used this as an excuse to gush about someone who was really bloody cool
Was it that obvious? 😆 🤣
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn For me, only now it's been mentioned.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Personally I thought you were rubbing it in for all the people who will be upset about it being renamed after Smalls. Oh I fully support rubbing it in honestly. These people deserve to have it rubbed in their face all day long.
There are times when gloating is appropriate. Robert Smalls getting a ship named after him is definitely one of those times. There are so many people in history who deserve their own movies. If we were to focus on them more maybe their examples would inspire people to move past everything holding them back now.
@@darrenskjoelsvoldcan you hear Tucker spewing bile about the woke military???? I sure can.....
@@mrpepperidgefarms I was wondering what that whining sound was that’s drifting in from the west.
Greetings from Germany btw.
The life of Robert Smalls could be a movie. It's really incredible. He was quite a man. I find it quite fitting that his name will replace that of Chancellorsville
It is indeed. I heard his story in Professor Henry Louix Gates' series on African-American history. Probably *long* overdue for the Navy to name a ship for him. Him and Dorie Miller.
I learned about Robert Smalls only a few years ago, and I just love the story of his life. How has there not been a movie about him yet?!
paging Hollywood!
Drunk History on Comedy Central did a segment on this man and I could not agree more. It’d make a great movie. I’m sure it get review bombed by the same people who can’t define “woke” but I’d definitely go see it. Apparently, there is a lot of fertile territory when it comes to stories about the civil war.
Ken Burns?
Every time I hear stories aobut Robert Smalls, I am amazed that a movie or mini-series hasn't been made about this great American hero...but then I remember the systemic racism in the United States of America, and I cease to wonder.
Probably for the best. Whenever they make a "Historical" movie they shift the narrative to their liking. Just look at Argo to see my point.
@@selalewow I wonder if "Yankwashing" is a term...It was Canadian Ambassador Taylor other Canadian Embassy staff who harboured the Americans, and Taylor was the one who came up with the idea to get them out of Tehran. Even President Jimmy Carter stated that the CIA was the junior partner in the "Canadian Caper" as it became known as.
@@FarrellMcGovern I'm going to be using the term Yankwashing from now on every time I see another damn American made movie about WWII that makes it look like they were the big damn heroes who saved everyone else's skin, when they really came in at the last minute, after the rest of us had been fighting for years! (Not to mention all the American industrialists who had been supplying the Nazis, but are somehow never mentioned, and were never censured for their war crimes...) As context, my Ukranian-born grandfather was in the Canadian army in WWII. He married my Serbian-born grandmother when he got home, and thus I exist. Up north here, we don't brag about what we did in the wars. Our people did their duty, then came home and didn't really talk about it. It was horrible, not glorious, and we see no reason to brag about simply doing what was right. (rant over.)
@@FarrellMcGovern We Canadians don't brag much but when they give a massive piece of BS several Oscars just because it panders to the American ego we do get a little salty.
@@FarrellMcGovern the term "Yankwashing" is perfect to describe what they do and why.
Robert Smalls has the best "screw this job I quit" story I've ever heard
"I'm taking my ball, and your ball, and the whole goddamned field and going home."
if it was a really old ship, he might have said "paddlewheel this job".
@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 alright.... You're the dude from the Quaker oats box....
I'm the dude that says Pepperidge farms remembers..... Is this a turf dispute?
@@mrpepperidgefarms why am I picturing a gang war fought with baked goods now?
@@jollyjackass Appears to be a (breakfast) food fight. 😮😂😊
At first I thought who cares about Navy names but I really enjoyed the story. Beau, you are a very good story tellet and, as usual, I appreciate the history lesson.
That ship has a lot to live up to with that name now attached to it . Fair winds and following seas .
Smalls was bloody brilliant, I'm kind of shocked there hadn't already been a USS Robert Smalls
I have a feeling this is the type of history Florida doesn’t want taught 😕
Exactly what I was thinking when Beau started talking about Smalls.
Saying "Robert" and "Smalls" in the same sentence WILL be cause for termination for a Florida teacher!
Does Florida want any history being taught? From what I can tell [from across the pond], they're only interested in teaching myths and misinformation.
They should station it there and offer tours to school groups.
Definitely since books of a similar nature have been banned by teachers in the south.
I like it when places/vessels are no longer named after traitors.
Also they were the losers too. Who wants to command/serve on a ship named for one of the losers in a war?
Great post.
I guess you're not happy with Bunker Hill, Princeton, Cowpens, Ticonderoga or San Jacinto either then.
@@imzadi83fanvids7 Chancellorsville was a battle Holmes, not a person.
@@ElGrandoCaymano A battle the USA lost. Was the ship honoring the USA's loss or the Confederacy's win? I think we all know which, and that is why they are renaming it.
Thanks for sharing that story of a strong and courageous black man's struggles to make his significant mark on history during the most difficult times. I am most saddened by the fact that the children of FL will never learn this inspiringly uplifting saga in their schools. The struggle continues almost 200 years later. 😥
Wow. Never heard of the man. History in school was boring & nothing more than memorizing dates of certain WHITE MAN'S events. Thank you. I will have to look up this man & read the full story now.
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Yes!!!! I thought the same. I have read unceasingly since school ended and there are so many men of color and women who have done amazing, incredible things!!! Smalls was one of them.
Thanks for the insight in this video, sounds like they did good with this renaming process. Did not know of Robert Smalls or his history, and what he did as an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Let alone how he freed his and others families during the war. Thanks
USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser
Thanks for additional info on Smalls. That last sentence is the icing on the cake.
I never heard of him. Thank You Navy for teaching a bot of history. This actually will make an Impact.
I can't wait until the right wingers start saying "Russian and China wouldn't rename ships!" (anyone that knows anything about the Russian and Chinese navies will find that hilarious)
Yeah.. times their (ruskies) crappy only carrier has been renamed after they they stole it from UA 😅
The Russians renamed entire cities.
traditionally renaming ships is bad luck. it's not a "right wing" thing it's a sailor thing.
now, renaming enemy ships you've captured in battle is just fine. but a ship that's already commissioned? you don't change the name because of the whims of who happens to be in charge in washington. otherwise the USS Ronald Reagan becomes the USS Nancy Pelosi and back again every few years.
@@Jacqueline_Thijsen More than once.
They don't rename ships, the ships' names accidentally fall off balconies and are gifted new ones
How does the Navy not already have a medal named after this guy?
Seriously use the Audie Murphy Board as a model and get it done
Sounds like Robert Smalls is someone I should’ve learned about in US History when I was in school. I’m sorry I’ve never heard of him, but so glad I know of him now. He is a TRUE hero!!
That was beautiful...simply refreshing in these dark times...😢
I had never heard of Robert Smalls before I went to Charleston and saw the plaque about him. He sailed his ship out from the harbor there. It is pretty sad that he has not been celebrated more. I'm glad to see Marie Tharp getting recognition also. She had a lot less to overcome, but still her contributions to science were almost lost to sexism.
I love all the people saying Smalls' life should be a movie/tv series. Truly, he lived an amazing life, and should be celebrated as the American hero that he is!
Pretty much everyone is a lot less awesome than Robert Smalls.
Thanks Beau! I get a kick out of learning about amazing people I never heard of especially when our country finally honors such people 👏
Hi Beaupeeps, good news about the renaming of the Navy ships it's about dang time.
Howdy
Wow. I have never heard of this person who was incredibly brave and a leader of people through such treacherous waters. I went to school in the 80's & early 90's This story should be part of high school history curriculum.
Thank you for this story, Beau. I am from SC and I can assure you I did not read this in the William Gilmore Simms SC History we had in the 7th grade. I understand Simms was a huge defender of slavery! Smalls should have been recognized a century and a half ago!
Former squid here... and this is a great idea! Dude was a legend
Once again, Beau sends me scrambling for the history books. Amazing feat from an amazing man; the very definition of sangfroid. So glad Mr Smalls is getting his due.
Woo-hoo! Robert Fucking Smalls is THE MAN.
Now *there* is a story that needed telling.
Thanks, Beau.
I can't wait for CVN 81 the next USS Doris Miller to be fully commissioned once she's finished.
Amen❤🎉
Going to be a while the 9th Enterprise is scheduled for 2028 and four year plan so 2032 for the Miller.
Oh and new JFK next year.
@@scottmwilhelms2437 Dorie should jump ahead of JFK. Hell, he deserves to be at the head of the line. He bloody well earned it.
When...where...date...I wanna be there...I use to live in Austin Texas...and Doris's story is there...from IH35 all the way to hyway 181 heading to Houston on the back roads of HWY 290...
I served on cv-64 and cvn-65. I cannot wait for the uss doris miller. One of the biggest heroes at pearl harbor. He lost his life a couple years later on another ship during a kamikazee attack. FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS SHIPMATE!
You reminded me of something and how ironic things are things are today. When you and I were in school, we were required to do biography reviews, remember. Write read books. Thus, review the history of the individual, perhaps even do a little skit or an oral report, at least, that's what I had to do. I had to do that all through high school, too. My son, who is in 11th grade now, has not had to do one bibliography report thru all 1st thru 11 grade. So you are right. This would be great for a report that a kid could do for school. The kicker is that they do not need to know the heroes or the courage and white feathers (inside joke) of the past. They are not asked to even watch a movie with all the incomplete truths about the past. He was taught that titanic was just a ship, and it basically sunk. He was taught about Pearl Harbor for about ten minutes and that it virtually had nothing to do with World War II.
I think the importance of reading biographies or documentaries about historic people is beyond required is needed. The importance is more than just knowing what they did. It's to envision that you yourself can go above and beyond the minimal opportunity of your existence as a child and become exceptional.
My only question is why has it taken so long to name a ship after him? He is a absolute legend
Id be honored to serve on a ship named after such an incredible man.
I'd love to see a movie about Robert Smalls. It could be focused on the capture of the Planter.
I just looked it up and there's one listed on IMDB: "The Story of Robert Smalls".
"Steal Away" seemed to be something very different.
There really needs to be a major Hollywood film based on this, I think.
Those are good, solid, sensible names for ships. Frankly, Smalls should be an award-winning miniseries. I was hoping for a stunningly stupid name on one, though. Like Shippy McShipface, Maximum Spiders, or The Funk Engine.
"For some reason, we can't get anyone to serve aboard the USS _Maximum Spiders,_ and it's impossible to maintain discipline on the USS _Funk Engine."_
Hey, no cultural appropriation, the McBoatface gag belongs to the Brits… lol
Those will have to be the unofficial names.
@@grizzlynad Quite OK, old chap. It's better than naming them after battles we lost.
@newf newf.
Consider it an "homage" or an influence result.... imitative flattery. 😁
There's even a strain of cannabis - hi CBD for sale in Canada called
"Boaty McBoatface"
Bes' kind.....
Before this post I had no idea who Smalls was. Always happy to be enlightened. Based on what you've said about him, he was pretty damned awesome and should have been honored a long time ago.
I’m glad we lost the war. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts in this video. When I first heard about him a few years back in a podcast I could only thing wow. In addition I was also very grateful that I have grown up a lot.
I’m glad we lost the war
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s I would’ve never said that. And I’m finally letting go of the name too. The war for southern independence is not the best name for the conflict.
Tell the truth I’ve gone from being a John Brown heater to a John Brown admirer.
The first time I saw Spartacus on TV sometime in the 60s I thought the character was good guy! I could not see that my condemnation of John Brown with his body molding in the ground
Was a contradiction.
It takes a big man to admit one's past mistakes. You are no less of a hero for realizing that.
You're an American... Therefore you didn't lose the war
Paul, thanks for such an honest comment. It takes courage and a big heart to publicly share an embarrassing past. Good on you for seeing it and doing the work to become the better person you are now🙂.
You lost the war. But accepting that means you remember history and do not want to repeat it. Germany has their laws against neonancies not to self-hate on white folks, but for the old adage "those who ignore the past will repeat it". Same here. YOU remember history, and therefore less likely to repeat it. The civil war in the USA is remembered not to rain on confederate cornflakes or to be anti-white or brown people made it happen due to "woke ideology neomarxism wordsalad", but because it happened, and trying to redo the war by those who had a flag trained into them as "confederate" when it was not widely used and didn't mean that because "TV", is how you forget the past and then egg on to recreate it.
Good man! I too am a Southerner who thanks God that America prevailed.
Beau you are magnificently prolific lately. And with ever-increasing quality - you're a marvel and a huge asset for Our Side!
For humanity and wisdom and “thoughts “.
My step dad retired Senior Chief Petty officer. He gave a lot of ships new names from what I remember. 😂
Spot on! My own dad retired as a CWO4. Sailors had their own names for their ships. I served in NAVAIR and we did the same for our squadrons.
@@higgs923 we had names for the ships and squadrons but none of them reflected the anything good ie the shi*** kitty for the kitty hawk
Lol makes me think of Drachinifel's "Voyage of the Damned" video. If you know, you know. ;) And it makes what happened to the Moskva so much easier to understand.
Petty names?
Former sailor here, how many of the renamings were not obscene? 😅😂😊❤
Good that Smalls is getting a ship named after him.
Smalls would be a great name for an air craft carrier.
As soon as you said his name I started applauding! What a great man to honor this way! Perfection!!!
Always learning on your channel.
Thinking that the hijacking of your own slave ship, and turning it over to the union, should qualify for a Spy vs Spy badge
You're killing me, Smalls! Seriously, what a hero!
As a former USN submariner, this story makes me happy
Thank you Beau
Smalls story is one that needs to be turned into a movie, or a mini-series at least.
Or a broadway musical…
I was US Navy for 4 years and love Naval History. I've read some about Smalls. Frankly, it's American Hero type stuff deserving of a movie, but I'm actually surprised he did not have a Navy Ship named for him yet. It's about time.
Because Smalls was actually Army, not Navy. Wasn't the USAV Major General Robert Smalls named after him?
It is such a tragedy that Robert Smalls is mot already a household name. I'm embarrassed to say that I am a licensed social studies teacher and have never heard of him. He should have had a ship named after him a long time ago!
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I never knew this and if I learned nothing else from this channel it would be worth all the time I have spent watching these years. Except I have learned so much more. Thank you and I am so impressed with this move by the US Military.
Thank you for a story worth remembering, nomatter which nation we are in.❤
Well, that's the living embodiment of rule 303.
Robert Smalls was a legit badass. Thank you for telling his story. I read about him awhile back.
They need to name one 'Pat'. That'll rile up the ol' Magakult!
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Thank you for this Beau! Love hearing about Robert Smalls. Very heroic man! ❤
Thanks Beau, for highlighting positive changes, we all need a lift. 😉👍💙🇺🇸🕊
Robert Smalls is just incredible. I'm sure they don't teach about him in Florida.
This is amazing. I had never heard of him, but now ... I wanna know everything about him! I absolutely love your channel! Thank you for teaching me something about our history!
Thanks Beau. I'll definitely check this story out. You finally mentioned something I wasn't already aware of. This counts as learning something new every day for me.
I heard the story on Drunk History, AWESOME STORY 💥💥💥💥💥
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Aaaaa, I’m so psyched about this. I heard about him a few years back, he was so awesome!
Hm… the ship is planned to be decommissioned in 2026
I so want to see a Biopic Series about Robert Smalls. If you write screenplays, get started on this one!
Amazon is reportedly in development of a biopic.
@@keith6706 Great! Good to know. Thx.
This is fantastic! Thank you for bringing his story to our attention!
What an absolutely amazing story!
Guy deserves a ship name more than anyone
I look forward to the upcoming films about Smalls' life and career. His story was quite climactic to similar stories that occurred here and there on coasts and borders of the U.S. from colonial times through our great decolonization.
Thank you for educating us, Beau! Black people are probably tired of having to keep teaching us white folks about history; it’s way past time we make the effort to educate ourselves and each other.
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Hell yes they're celebrating Robert Smalls!
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That was my first thought. Or, if they do, it will be "Robert Smalls was brave. He sailed a ship past 5 forts."
@@queenboudicca31 Research Michael Healy and Alex Haley please.
I just hopped over to your channel after watching a history video on the Edmund Fitzgerald! 😳 You're scaring me, Beau. Love your channel. ❤️ ❤
Welcome! Lots of stuff to catch up on. 😁
Capt. Smalls has always been one of my favorite Civil War stories.
Thank you, Beau. Never heard about this great hero.
Loved the history lesson. More like this please.
Naming a ship after Smalls is a great idea, but someone needs to make a movie telling his story! That’s an amazing true life tale.
Could you also please cover Army renaming some their bases? Like Fort Benning to Ft. Moore for example. Thank you and love you!
Think Beau already did a vid on that
The story of Robert Smalls sounds incredible! He more than deserves a ship named after him! As others have said, this would make a fantastic movie!!
Brother I learn something new from you everyday. Thank you for what you do. I make my kids watch your channel at least once a week.
The only question-not-question is why USN didn't have ship named after him before.
Matthew Cooke has an incredible series on real American history and it's mind-blowing how much we weren't taught.
Smalls was 100% American badass. Not only for his naval service (which alone should have gotten him a ship named after him) but what he did beyond Including serving in Congress.
When Rear Admiral DuPont describes you as the finest naval officer he has seen irrespective of race in 1862, that says a lot about how intelligent and capable an officer Smalls was.
As much as I am in favor of not having ships named after Confederate victories, renaming the Chancellorsville now in this way is an odd choice. The ship is an old cruiser that is due to be decommissioned within the next couple of years, so it won't be carrying its new name for long. Robert Smalls deserves to have a new destroyer named after him, or maybe one of the upcoming frigates.
That is amazing! I know about Smalls and I love his story! ❤
Damn! I learned something here AGAIN! How can I be so old and NOT know this???
⭐🙂🇺🇸 Robert Smalls..!
And Beau smiling a Lot.
Robert Smalls is an absolutely incredible person. So much so that reading the Wikipedia page about him is riveting.
If there was ever some HBO historical drama series to be made about someone, he's the guy.
I'd love to see a Netflix docuseries on him.
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Another amazing person from history we didn't learn about. Always learning here,thank you Beau
Every time I hear about Mr. Smalls' story and life I am even more amazed. He deserves this.
Let's see; name a United States Navy ship after traitors... or after a TRUE American hero? What's the issue? Should there even BE a discussion?
Well done and long overdue! Thank you Beau for the information
Awesome !! Thanks Beau ! By the way, according to Wikipedia, the US Army named a logistics ship in his honor. That will ( I think ) make him the first person in American history to have a ship or installation named in his honor by two branches of the armed forces. Netflix IS working on a movie.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
Thank you for the history lesson, Beau. I'm sure you have more and would love to hear them.
Wow, that's really cool! Can we get a movie about him? 😃
What a great story! Thanks for sharing.
Sounds like progress and an honor long overdue.
So much black history we never learn about. Thank you for enlightening us.
robert smalls should have a carrier named after him
"You're killing me Smalls"
-Any enemy
Im not worried about renaming things deliberately named after enemies of the state, I'm worried why they were named that way in the first place, and why people chose to defend that behavior rather than see it for what it is.
Robert Smalls was an amazing dude. This is great.
Hi this is awesome love that pirate
MARIE THARP was celebrated recently (November 2022) by a Google doodle.
a scientist, she had the usual story of female scientists of that era (1940-50’s), where SHE was the actual scientist who discovered something, and it required a MALE colleague to verify her findings.
she mapped out the bottom surface of the Atlantic ocean and discovered the great midatlantic ridge and helped prove PLATE TECTONICS.
Yuusssss.... The Robert Smalls. A man we need a documentary about.
Incredible!!! So amazing. African Americans have given it all - blood, sweat, and tears to this country. And they're still fighting to keep this country together and on the right path. Heres to the awesome Mr. Smalls!!