November 1775

In this installment of Live to Shoot – Defending Our 2nd Amendment Rights, host Jeff Dowdle cranks the time machine back to November 1775, where the American Revolution ignites from simmer to full blaze. As the countdown to America's 250th anniversary marches on, Jeff unpacks a month packed with high-stakes maneuvers: General Montgomery's lightning capture of Montreal, the birth of the Continental Navy and Marines, and Benedict Arnold's frostbitten siege of Quebec. Down south, Lord Dunmore's desperate proclamation offering freedom to enslaved fighters sparks fury and civil strife, from Kemp's Landing to the Snow Campaign's backcountry brawls.

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Well, welcome to the live shoot podcast. My name is Jeff Dol, and I've been a licensed farm dealer for the last 18 years. And this podcast to talk about all things related to Second Amendment, as well as anything else going in the world, a sports story, or anything else that I might find interesting. So welcome, welcome, welcome folks. And, this is gonna be one of our special episodes. If you haven't if you're just joining us we have been go stepping back in time as we prepare for the 250th anniversary of, of, of this country, which will be July 2026. And as a part of that, we've been go going back 250 years for that this particular month and what was going on in the revolution at that point in time. So we have done July of 1775. August of 1775. September of 1775, October of 1775 and now we're about to do November of 1775. So if you haven't listened to those previous ones, go back, listen to'em, catch up on what's been going on. But you know, before we do di dive into November, let's do a quick look of where we've been. So back in July, 1775, the Continental Army's forming up around Boston, Washington. He's pension, pennies on supplies and the red cos are hunkered down. Across the New York, so August militias are itching for some action. Congress is haggling over the armies and the fige is even tighter now September. There's more powder shortages. They're staring down the Brits with grit and grit alone. October, we've got privateers are starting to snag. British supply ships foul mouth burns in British spite and Vuc Arnold, he's kicking off and heading towards c Quebec through Maine. Now, revolution was not tidy. It was a, a tidy little tea party. It was full of. Brawl for Liberty, and in November, November's when the stakes are starting to skyrocket. So let's look and see what's going on in November. So November 1st kicks off with Congress getting the gut punch. They word hits him, hits Philly, that the King George. He's just ignoring their olive branch. He's torched it. He calls the columnist in full rebellion, hires Hessian mercenaries like it's Black Friday at the Arms Depot. That's the Royal Middle Finger folks. No more olive branches just being at Washington's army around Boston. Still sing, still scraping, but up north things are heating up in Canada's campaign. George, Richard General. Richard Montgomery's been pounding away at Fort St. John on the OU River. Remember that, what, from October? Well, on the second. After 55 days bridge ERs, the Fort Fos, like a cheap tent. Boom, 500 red coat prisoners, 41 cannons in American hands. Montgomery's grinning like a fox in the hand house and he's marching onto Montreal through the rain and muck. And that's the kind of. A bold armed push that says, we're not just defending, we're taking the fight to him by the third down in South Carolina, South Carolina, loyalists roughnecks under Patrick Cunningham are ambushing patriot supply wagons headed for the Cherokee. Guns and power are meant to keep the frontier calm. Skirmish Cities folks, but Congress, they're not sitting idle. On the fourth, they reorganized Washington's army to 20,000 strong enlisting through 1776. That's muscle built for the long haul and the Naval Committee's on fire. They've snapped up eight more merchant ships, aiming, arming as men of War, Alfred Columbus, Andrew Doria names. That scream defiance. On the fifth, they tap Essex Hopkins as the first commander of the Continental Navy Brother Stevens on the committee pulling strings. These ain't fancy frigates. They're armed citizens of war privateers with the presidential wink proving that the seas no safe haven for tyrant. Now November 7th, drops two bombshells that'll echo through history. First across the pond, British House of Commons. Laugh off that olive branch for good. No reconciliation, just war homes, but closer to home. Lord Dun Maier. He's a Virginia governor. Issues a proclamation from onboard the HMS fowey. He declares martial law brands re rebels, traders, and, and here's the kicker. He offers freedom to. Any slave who grabs up a musket for the crown, the Ethiopian regiment's, what they call'em, freed men, fighting for the red coats. Folks, this lights a fuse under every plantation owner, loyalists or not, is desperation from dunmore, but it radicalizes the fight. Armed slaves versus armed masters. The ninth Benedict Arnold, he ragtag crew down to 675. Frost pit, frost pit, and soles after the 300 mile main nightmare, finally hits the St. Louis River eyeballing Quebec City. They're half dead from starvation and swamp, but armed to the teeth and howling for a shot at the bastion of British North America, same day as skirmish at Tmore Point. Brits raided for cattle, but Colonel William Thompson's rifleman, chase'em off like wolves from a campfire. Washington Orders. Fort Putman built right there. Boom. Another Thorn in house side. November 10th, mark this one, you, Marines, Congress Green Lights. Two battalions of Continental Marines. Seamen with Muskets. Born at Tavern. In In Philly. First Commandant. Samuel Nichols, that's the birth of the core, and we'll be celebrating that birthday here. This podcast, I'm recording on the eighth, so in a couple days we're gonna celebrate the birth of the core. And if you're listening to this sometime in the future, yep. November 10th, that's when we celebrate the core and up in Boston. Privateers from Plymouth Snag two British supply ships, landing the prisoners on Plymouth Rock with cheers for American arms, but knot all smooth on on the 12th. Washington drops a hard order. No more enlisting black troops. Freer slave grim chapter in the Fight for Liberty. Showing the contradictions, even heroes wrestled with still the army's holding. Sing Boston like a ice. Then 13th Montreal falls. Montgomery rolls in unopposed. Carlton evacuates like a rat from a sink ship and the yank sees a city plus two rivers. It's a queen. It's a clean sweep in Canada, opening road to Quebec. Arnold's crew hears the news and digs in on the planes of Abraham demanding surrender. McClean's like not today, but the news is tightening mid month. Heats up in the down south the 15th. The Battle of Kemp's Landing in Virginia. Dunmore has got 150 Redcoat loyalists and those new Ethiopian recruits charging 200 Patriot militia under Colonel William Woodford. Brits win a bloody scrap. Nine Americans lost, but Woodford's buying time, fortifying great bridge. It's malicious steel against Royal de desperation. The kind of stand that screams the Second Amendment 19th through the 21st. Snow campaign kicks off in South Carolina. Nine six district loyalists under Cunningham 18 or strong besieged 600 Patriots. Hold up in a log forward it savage Savages. Old fields Colonel Andrew Williamson's crew digs in, but after days of Ling, they truce it out. First real civil war flare up in the back country. Brother versus brother, musket versus musket. And up North. Colonel John Brown's boys ambush Carltons. Flotilla on the floor, singing ships, nabbing, general Prescott, and 145 troops. Carlton slips away, but it's another gut check for the Brits. By the 27th, captain John Manley schooner Lee bags, HMS, Nancy, off of Cape, and loaded with 2000 muskets powder and mortar. They dubbed Congress. That's the noble train of artillery. Cousin, cousin, folks. Civil smarts, feeding the light. Congress lays down new rules on the 28th and by the 29th Arnold knocking on Quebec's Gates. Back in Philly, they formed the Committee of Secret Correspondence, Ben Franklin, John Adams, the Brain Trust, plotting Allegiance Alliances. Same day, new Haven. Hot Heads under Captain Isaac Sears, trash Loyalist Printer, James Tritons Press in New York. Parading Tories like. Captured game, defiance is everywhere. Whew. November, 1775. It's the month revolution goes Global Canada invasion, Navy and Marines. Birth Dun Moore's gambit, backfiring and malicious. Proving that armed res resolve beats empire every day time from Boston Sea to Quebec. Shadow focuses like you and me. Farmers, sailors raffle riflemen with powder in their horns and fire in their eyes. Here's the takeaway, folks from 17 November, 1775 ain't just dates and dispatches. It's the raw pulse of why we defend the Second Amendment, like our life. Depend on it back.'cause back then they did. Lord Meyer weighs freedom at the enslaved, but his armed columnists, black, white, free. Or, or fighting for it. Who did tips the scales? Private tears swiping prizes, militia, holding down 96. Arnold Frozen marchers. That's self-reliant, not waiting for King's permission to bear arms. It's a shield against proclamations and powder grabs the guarantee that no admiral or governor dictates your liberty. And as we barrel towards 250 years of freedom, remember that's the right to keep'em bare. It's the thread from Montreal's capture to your front porch day. Stay vigilant. Stay armed. Tyranny doesn't take any holidays. So next time we're gonna talk about December, 1775. Washington's winter woes more Canada chaos, and the spark that lights the new year. You don't wanna miss it. So if you're fired up, hit the subscribe button, share this podcast with some podcast with somebody, let'em know what's going on. We have to continue to fight for our right to bear arms and it, they're not gonna give up. We got a a, a so communist socialist running New York who's already said we need to seize all the guns. So the fight's just starting and we've gotta keep it going. So. Take care. Have a great weekend and I will talk to you later.