Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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American Revolutionary War

Also searchable as American Revolution, American War of Independence, Revolutionary War, War of American Independence.

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:29:40Chesapeake Bay's overlooked maritime historyNotable Point
  2. William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!
    2:03:59Japanese California and an alternative American rebellionNotable Point
  3. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:26:24Seward and reunification through foreign warNotable Point
  4. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:12:21The Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Long IslandQ&A
  5. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:37:36Anglo-French rivalry without the French RevolutionQ&A
  6. The Press Gang, myth and reality...
    32:51Reading wartime manpower figures carefullyNotable Point
  7. Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:46:21Why the same war dominates one curriculum and barely enters anotherNotable Point
  8. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:25:42Why experimental Turtle submarines had to be builtQ&A
  9. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    26:52A Civil War-era US Navy in the War of 1812Q&A
  10. Press Gang: The Myth & Reality
    2:28Wartime expansion drove emergency recruitmentNotable Point
  11. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:22:50A successful Regulator Rebellion could accelerate the independence crisisQ&A
  12. Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:45:35A British New York and Pennsylvania after independenceQ&A
  13. Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:47:08New York's waterways and the economy of the northern coloniesNotable Point
  14. The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More
    37:55Roosevelt compares American, British, and French single-ship actionsNotable Point
  15. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    20:40A loyal Pennsylvania as Britain's North American bufferQ&A
  16. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    36:05John Manley's destroyer naming line and its later interruptionNotable Point
  17. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    35:45Canada's Loyalists illustrate the limits of expecting liberationNotable Point
  18. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    5:16:29HMS Agincourt at the Battle of the ChesapeakeQ&A
  19. Nelson: A Very British God of War...
    14:38Little Lucy and command at nineteenChapter
  20. Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort
    16:43The Indian Ocean war had its own imperial aimsNotable Point
  21. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:19:51Why a navy should not make every ship a first-rateNotable Point
  22. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:38:56Where an evacuated Cornwallis would goQ&A
  23. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    46:10Parliament, not George III, set colonial taxationNotable Point
  24. Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power
    44:26From American naval raiding to a global coalition warNotable Point
  25. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:16:40An American crown exports the Stuart problem across the AtlanticQ&A
  26. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    2:34:11Catherine II pursues trade, alliances and armed neutralityNotable Point
  27. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    48:05Keppel, naval politics, and the case for copper sheathingNotable Point
  28. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    57:05Grenada: a cohesive van inside a British defeatChapter
  29. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    1:02:06Guadeloupe: Rowley wins under his own commandChapter
  30. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    1:04:30Martinique: Rodney assigns Rowley the troublesome rearChapter
  31. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    1:07:18The missing dependable deputy at Chesapeake and the SaintesNotable Point
  32. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    1:08:37Jamaica Station: command without a headline battleChapter
  33. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:43:39Leading Keppel's van at UshantChapter
  34. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:48:47Grenada and the danger of breaking formationChapter
  35. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    2:10:36Jamaica command and the value of quiet competenceChapter
  36. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    2:23:34If American independence had not come in 1776Q&A
  37. Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras
    3:56Saumarez learned command in the American WarChapter
  38. Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras
    6:11HMS Spitfire carried galley warfare into North AmericaNotable Point
  39. John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…
    24:44HMS Foudroyant captures PégaseChapter
  40. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:09:50Rodney's view of Washington and army officersNotable Point
  41. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:32:24St Eustatius: blockade running, plunder, and misconductChapter
  42. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:36:17Could Rodney have changed the Chesapeake campaign?Notable Point
  43. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    14:01Rodney's ambition, prejudice, and Chesapeake counterfactualChapter
  44. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    1:57:54Rodney misreads George Washington through service prejudiceNotable Point
  45. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:12:13Signal confusion frustrates Rodney off MartiniqueChapter
  46. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:25:39St Eustatius yields an immense commercial prizeChapter
  47. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:26:42Rodney persecutes St Eustatius's Jewish communityChapter
  48. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:36:01Rodney declines personal command for the Chesapeake responseNotable Point
  49. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:39:08Jamaica raises the stakes before the SaintesChapter
  50. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:57:06Churchill and Sandwich swap First Lord erasQ&A
  51. The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality
    1:43:44Anglo-American wars and Britain's wider commitmentsNotable Point
  52. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    59:49Dogger Bank made convoy passage the measure of victoryChapter
  53. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    11:18The Keppel-Palliser affair and Royal Navy political cautionQ&A
  54. Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!
    1:22:17Admiral Hood in place of Graves at the ChesapeakeQ&A
  55. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    3:37:34If Turtle had sunk Admiral Howe's flagshipQ&A
  56. Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)
    21:23Richmond's prize-taking in Chesapeake watersNotable Point
  57. Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)
    1:28:38French Caribbean ambitions after ChesapeakeNotable Point
  58. Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)
    2:03:52Cape Henry: an indecisive battle with a decisive positionNotable Point
  59. Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)
    2:10:34Royal Oak at the Battle of ChesapeakeChapter
  60. Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 10
    37:23Raisonnable breaks the Penobscot ExpeditionChapter
  61. Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!
    20:14Interpreting Cuddalore as a struggle for IndiaNotable Point
  62. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    1:13:56James Hillyar brings a lifetime of war to the PacificChapter
  63. Carry on Invading Britain: The Battle of Fishguard (1797)
    19:24The uneven force sent to Wales as the Legion NoireChapter
  64. The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)
    1:19:22William Tate's uncertain background and French commissionChapter
  65. The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes
    2:54:44Loyalist settlement undermined an invasion assumptionNotable Point
  66. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    51:21The American rebellion preceded the French Revolutionary WarsQ&A
  67. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    26:11American persistence undermines the decisive-battle premiseNotable Point
  68. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    1:09:10Can a country without a navy win a naval war?Q&A
  69. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:45:28What American timber and dockyards add to a victorious Royal NavyQ&A
  70. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:51:19How a British victory in 1776 could change slavery and patrolsQ&A
  71. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:00:20What North American yards build after a failed RevolutionQ&A
  72. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:07:40Would the French Revolution still happen without an American victory?Q&A
  73. British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences
    17:39The global war behind the first captureNotable Point
  74. Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure
    1:06:44Samuel Adams, taxation, and a limited franchiseChapter
  75. Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure
    1:16:04Britain and the colonies misjudged each other's strategic valueNotable Point
  76. Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure
    1:18:57The Revolution cannot be traced to one Navigation ActNotable Point
  77. Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure
    1:22:00Trade freedom, imperial protection, and an unsustainable bargainNotable Point
  78. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:39:15Admiral Rodney between prize money and strategic dutyChapter
  79. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:12:32How colonial political culture diverged from BritainNotable Point
  80. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:17:14The Sugar Act in a longer colonial breakNotable Point
  81. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:20:21Had the colonies already separated commercially before independence?Q&A
  82. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:27:05Were the thirteen colonies lightly taxed?Q&A
  83. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:29:28Why Britain did not see the thirteen colonies as indispensableNotable Point
  84. The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)
    2:58:37Do modern American power assumptions fit the thirteen colonies?Q&A
  85. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    23:33How political rivalry disrupted the AdmiraltyChapter
  86. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    25:18Sandwich's hard-working but politically weaker AdmiraltyNotable Point
  87. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    30:30Why Caribbean trade outweighed the Thirteen ColoniesNotable Point
  88. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    35:00Chesapeake: the strategic failure behind the battleChapter
  89. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    45:40Where Britain did and did not lose sea controlNotable Point
  90. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    22:43An empire caught under-mobilizedChapter
  91. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    27:31Lord George Germain fragments the war effortNotable Point
  92. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    31:50How Grenada exposed contested colonial watersQ&A
  93. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    33:06Did political refusals deprive Britain of its best officers?Q&A
  94. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    43:12Chesapeake: a battle lost in strategic termsChapter
  95. Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    13:13Grenada and the contest for the CaribbeanChapter
  96. Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    25:07Grenada as part of a global warChapter
  97. Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    1:25:56Grenada's connection to the Siege of SavannahNotable Point
  98. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    9:12Why Richard Howe could drive the campaignNotable Point
  99. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    29:44Villaret-Joyeuse: courage without Howe's command depthNotable Point
  100. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    1:13:47French Canadian concerns about losing British protectionNotable Point
  101. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    2:40:28Why Canada did not join the American RevolutionQ&A
  102. Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/2
    8:45Britain's coalition lesson from the American RevolutionNotable Point
  103. Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters
    57:26Hyde Parker and Nelson as a command pairNotable Point
  104. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)
    3:30:28Lord Granby, Lord Germain, and command rivalryNotable Point
  105. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    1:41Why a fight over rice boats matteredChapter
  106. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    4:48Why America mattered beyond its immediate economic valueNotable Point
  107. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    10:44Britain's competing strategies for the warNotable Point
  108. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    33:26A minister directing the American warChapter
  109. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    45:55Georgia's communications failure and Governor WrightChapter
  110. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    1:02:20Why George III was not directing every operationNotable Point
  111. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    1:22:43The home fleet had to come firstNotable Point
  112. Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 2
    1:27:33Why small battles reveal more than headline campaignsNotable Point
  113. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    28:52A strategic mismatch encouraged temporary sea controlChapter
  114. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    53:00Political economy behind the colonies’ break with BritainChapter
  115. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    53:00Georgia rice as a solution to Boston’s supply crisisChapter
  116. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    1:05:23Wright’s escape turned a purchase mission into open conflictChapter
  117. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    1:28:11Rice secured too late to help BostonNotable Point
  118. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    1:33:45Dorchester Heights turned a maritime lifeline into a trapChapter
  119. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    2:39:22Why a professional American army threatens colonial controlNotable Point
  120. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)
    1:08:40Military professionalism and political useNotable Point
  121. Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak
    1:21:40If the Canadian colonies had joined the American RevolutionQ&A
  122. First Fleet: Founding of Australia
    8:49Transportation policy and the colony's skills shortageNotable Point
  123. The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)
    12:48Convict transportation before AustraliaNotable Point
  124. The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)
    24:35American Loyalists in the first New South Wales proposalNotable Point
  125. Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...
    46:41Biddle links the Continental Navy to Desert StormNotable Point
  126. Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...
    50:26Truxtun joins Enterprise in nuclear surface operationsChapter
  127. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    2:46:54Admirals on Samuel Hood's path to commandChapter
  128. Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...
    1:31:16How ships carried Enlightenment ideas across the AtlanticQ&A
  129. Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...
    2:38:19Early submarine experiments were an international phenomenonQ&A
  130. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    7:07Why losing five frigates matteredChapter
  131. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    43:34John Markham connects sea command to Admiralty leadershipNotable Point
  132. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    54:20Hermione reconstructed as an eighteenth-century frigateNotable Point
  133. Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...
    2:07:46Did Britain apply lessons from America in Malta?Q&A
  134. Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions
    2:15:20Changing the Battle of the ChesapeakeQ&A
  135. Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?
    1:36:02Why the Royal Navy treated the American wars as secondary theatresNotable Point
  136. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    2:42:41Submersible experiments around the age of TurtleQ&A
  137. The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol
    13:03World war, global war, and total warNotable Point
  138. The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol
    54:20The Seven Years' War in the Second Hundred Years' WarChapter
  139. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    1:33:11Q&A: when the American Revolution became a proxy warQ&A
  140. Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books
    1:01:35Public frost and practical Anglo-American relationsQ&A
  141. Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)
    37:16Oxford's eighty-four-year careerNotable Point
  142. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    4:43:08What American independence changed for British imperial strategyQ&A
  143. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)
    13:41If Turtle had succeededQ&A
  144. Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail
    2:44:15Sidney Smith's precocious command and intelligence apprenticeshipChapter
  145. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    12:34Gibraltar turns an American war into a global naval problemChapter
  146. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:16:54Victory at Gibraltar strengthens Britain's position at the peace tableNotable Point
  147. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:30:47The Great Siege shapes borders and the future of a global baseNotable Point
  148. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:31:54Why could the Royal Navy not simply crush the American Revolution?Q&A
  149. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:33:06The peace gives the new United States two powerful neighborsNotable Point
  150. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:39:45A Second Hundred Years' War links the supposedly separate conflictsNotable Point
  151. A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune
    8:52Edward Riou saves HMS Guardian after an iceberg strikeNotable Point
  152. Bruships 48: Reading History
    1:03:38D'Estaing's missed opportunities and coalition strainChapter
  153. Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History
    28:29Civil wars grow from structures older than their opening battlesChapter
  154. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    9:23Why the Saintes was an Anglo-French battleChapter
  155. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    21:25The American war exposed a command-quality gapQ&A
  156. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    1:45:44The victory reshaped peace negotiationsNotable Point
  157. Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment
    1:38:45Washington's military experience before independenceQ&A
  158. Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment
    1:40:30Washington's uniform as a claim to commandNotable Point
  159. The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-1916
    1:06:29Hyde Parker's career across three warsNotable Point
  160. Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 1
    17:25The Saintes and a rare British numerical advantageChapter
  161. HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/4
    1:52The long naval history behind the Arethusa nameChapter
  162. HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/4
    11:56The Belle Poule duel and the weather gaugeNotable Point
  163. Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy
    1:21:38American victory also depended on French sea powerQ&A
  164. Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle
    27:18Command depth after revolutionary disruptionNotable Point
  165. 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:49:34Washington, retreat, and the logistics of generalshipNotable Point
  166. Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:02:50Spanish Armada, French intervention, or Imperial Germany?Q&A
  167. A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history
    1:35:44World wars and the Second Hundred Years' WarNotable Point