Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
October 1775
In this episode we continue looking back 250 years as we prepare for country's 250th birthday. Today we look at the events of October 1775 and how they impacted the revolution.
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Well, welcome to the Live Sheet podcast. My name is Jeff Dol and I've been a licensed firearm dealer for the last. 18 years. And this podcast, we talk about all things related to the commitment, anything else going in the world, a sports story, or anything else I might find interesting. So welcome, welcome, welcome. So today we're cranking up the time machine again, and we're going back to, to start reviewing the America's 250th birthday as we approach it. So if you've been following this podcast we've done episodes on what was happening in July. Of 1775. August, 1775, September, 1775. And today we're gonna look back to see what all was going on in October, 1775. So if you haven't listened to those other ones, go catch up. We will do a brief recap here of what's been going on and up to this point in the revolution. And then we'll talk a little bit about what's happened in October. So you know, if we look back in a quick recap. The of what was this powder keg that was building it's just been six months since the shots heard around the world at Lexington Concord on April 19th as farmers and men staring down King George professionals killers proving that armed citizens. Are the ultimate check on tyranny. By June, the bloodbath that Bunker Hill showed the world that Americans wouldn't break easy even if they ran outta powder. Washington arrived in Cambridge in July, turning a mob into the continental Army while Congress fired off an olive branch as a kind of a hail Mary. Basically uses kindling Aug. August saw the siege of Boston, grinding on smallpox, loyalist spies, whispering the shadows in September, whispers of an invasion from Canada, plots crushed in Philly, and the Congress banning slave recruitment, highlighting the messy evolving fight for October. The colonies are united in rage, but fractured in fear. The British are blockading ports starring out the rebels and treating the Atlantic like at their own personal moat. But here's the Second Amendment thread we pull today. These weren't just soldiers. They were armed citizens. Militia privateers. Frontiersmen who turned p plow shares into swords because no government was handling our protection. That self-reliant power. Power is the heartbeat of 1775 a month of burnings, bombardments breakthroughs that screamed. We will defend our own. So let's kick OC October with a slight win for the home team. On the second British supply ship loaded with 1800 barrels of flour for the red coats in Boston. Gets duped by a crafty, crafty New Hampshire fisherman, and he pilots it straight into the jaws of colonial battery at the pesca. River and boom. Ports mouth, fishermen and gunner's hall in the prize. It's a small array, but it shows how everyday arms, locals think. Musket toting watermen. Were already choking the military supply lines. No standing army needed. When your neighbors have rifles and grid, you know, go to the third and. Rhode Island's delegates at the Continental Congress drop a bombshell. They say Build us a Navy. It's the first formal pitch for a national fleet formed from the blood of coastal raids. By the fourth Congress is an overdrive. They form a committee, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Lynch and Benjamin Harrison to ride up to Washington's camp in Cambridge. Their mission scope out the siege, rally the troops, and push for Boston captured by Christmas. Now things are starting to get rugged. On the sixth Benedict Arnold's ragtag Expedition four oh oh men slogging up the Kennebec River towards Quebec hit Norwich Walk Falls. They're hauling boats over land supply rotting in the rain. It's a brutal preview of what's gonna be ahead in Valley Forge, but these guys are volunteers armed with the resolve and whatever flintlocks they could carry back in Philly. A Lolas plot unravels Dr. John Kiley's. Junior's letters to London get intercepted spilling British intel. The crowd goes wild. Riots fan lemon, and he's hauled off. See the pattern. Armed diligence crushes the snakes in the grass. October 8th was a tough call for the general's ban ban African Americans free or enslaved from the ranks due to shortage ban. It's a staying on the current cause, but Congress doubles down on the 23rd. We'll revisit how that falls'cause Liberty's fight was and is imperfect down South, South Carolina. Governor Laura William Kawell bolts to a warship, a British warship after a plot to arm 600 Native Americans. Against the columns, blows up, fled like a rat, leaving Charleston to the Patriots. Now mid month heats up on, on the 13th after day's debate. Congress bursts that continental navy we talked about. They Okay. Converting merchant ships into warships, building two new ones and snapping up the Katy and Minerva. A marine committee Silas Dean, Christopher Gadson. John Langdon. Get the nod. This isn't just boats, it's armed liberty. Protecting power crude by the thank folks who defend their horse, their horse with muskets. October's dark turn hits on the 17th. British warships Rose. And Margarita Shell eth Maine. Today's Portland for nine hours after local snub and ultimatum to surrender arms. Captain Henry Moett turns to the town to Ash. 400 building squits 15 ships burned landing parties with Bay. It's finish the job. It's outrage fuel New England's Hall for how for revenge. And, and it radicalizes fence sitters. The British thought that fire would break spirits instead, it forged still. And tying that back, that is why the founders enshrined the right to to arms. So now, so no admiral can dictate terms to free. The 24th through the 27th the Battle of Hampton, Virginia, the old dominion's first clash Lord Dunman Tory Flotilla shells the town. Tries the land and raises Norfolk, but Col. Colonel William Woodford Woodford's Rifleman cracked shots from the militia. Driving back America. Snag a British tender, spike their guns and walk away unscathed. Zero losses on our side. That's precision fire folks. Folks. The second amendment in action. We closed the month on the 30th with two punches in Quebec. Quebec's, battle of Long, long Oil Guy Carlton's, 800 Brits and Allies tried to break through to Fort St. John's, but get shredded by Seth Warner's Green Mountain Boys. They were retreat across the St. Lawrence tails tucked and Arnold limps into the settlements buying corn for the skeletons of a force back in Congress. The Navy's official, a 36 gun and 20 gun frigate on the way committee expanded with John Adams and the heavy hitters, the seeds of old iron sides are planted. So October, 1775 wasn't glory or gore alone. It was defiance in the flames of foul mouth ingenuity on the high seeds in the unyielding march of armed citizens who wouldn't kneel. From private here, schooner to rifleman at Hampton this month hammered a home away. Why The Second Amendment isn't optional. It's a shield against the bar bombardment and betrayal. And as we hurdle towards 2026, big Bash. Remember the revolution wasn't won by Kings or Congress, but by the folks like you and me. Ready to shoot if pushed Next month, we'll crack November, 1775. Arnold's, Quebec Gamble, Montgomery's, thunder, and more twists on the seeds. So grab your history books, your AR from the range and join us. Hit this Fires up, you know, hit subscribe. Share this podcast with others. Shoot me an email. Tell me what your thoughts are. But, you know, we gotta keep on going and we gotta keep fighting for the Second Amendment. This is live to shoot. Stay armed, stay free, and God bless America.
