(2015) During the War of 1812, six ships were built in the Erie wilderness, including the Brig Niagara, which helped win the Battle of Lake Erie
00:28 - >>HELLO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
00:29 - WELCOME TO BATTLEFIELD
00:30 - PENNSYLVANIA. TODAY WE'RE
00:32 - FILMING ON LOCATION OF THE ERIE
00:33 - MARITIME MUSEUM.
00:35 - IN THE YEAR 18, 12 UNITED
00:37 - STATES DECLARED WAR ON AN OLD
00:38 - ENEMY. THE EMPIRE OF GREAT
00:40 - BRITAIN. CONTROVERSY IN ITS
00:42 - OWN TIME. MANY VIEW THE WAR OF
00:44 - 18, 12 AS A MATTER OF MERE
00:45 - POLITICS. WHILE OTHERS AS AN
00:47 - ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY.
00:49 - 2 CENTURIES LATER, THE
00:50 - CONFUSION REMAINS. BUT THERE
00:52 - IS ONE IRREFUTABLE BRIGHT SPOT.
00:54 - IN 18, 13 COMMODORE OLIVER
00:56 - HAZARD. PERRY OVERSAW THE
00:57 - CONSTRUCTION OF A FLEET BUT
00:59 - EVENTUALLY DO BATTLE AND DEFEAT
01:01 - THE MIGHTY BRITISH NAVY.
01:03 - I'M YOUR HOST BREAK, RIGHT,
01:04 - SIR. JOINING ME TODAY AS WALTER
01:06 - RIPPED OUT DIRECTOR OF THE AREA
01:08 - MARITIME MUSEUM AND SENIOR
01:10 - CAPTAIN OF THE U.S. BRIG
01:11 - NIAGARA. WALTER, THANK YOU FOR
01:13 - BEING HERE. WELCOME. TELL US
01:15 - ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL FACILITY.
01:17 - THE ERIE MARITIME MUSEUM,
01:18 - OLMERT, I MUSEUM OPENED 1998.
01:23 - >>IT
01:25 - FORTUITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THAT
01:27 - THE PANEL EQ. FROM STREET
01:30 - GENERATING STATION
01:31 - WAS A WAS DECOMMISSIONED IN
01:35 - 92 AND PENA LIKE DECIDE TO GIVE
01:38 - THE LAND TOO PHMC IN THE COUNTY
01:43 - AND IT WORKED OUT ACTUALLY PHMC
01:46 - DIDN'T TAKE OWNERSHIP. WE THE
01:49 - EQUIVALENT WE HAVE A LEASE ITS
01:50 - 99 YEARS FOR A DOLLAR
01:52 - UNKNOWABLE. BUT IT'S AT YOUR
01:53 - COUNTY BUILDING. ERIE COUNTY,
01:55 - THE LIBRARY'S NEXT OR NEW
01:57 - LIBRARY WAS BUILT.
02:00 - WE HAVE A COMMON LAW BE AND WE
02:02 - OPENED IN 1998, AND OUR PRIMARY
02:05 - EXHIBIT HERE IS ABOUT THE
02:07 - BUILDING OF THE SQUADRON FOR
02:08 - THE WAR OF 18, 12 MARITIME
02:11 - MUSEUM AND TRIES TO COVER THE
02:13 - LATER MARITIME HISTORY SINCE
02:14 - THE 200 YEARS OF HAPPENED
02:16 - AFTERWARDS, WE HAVE SOME SMALL
02:18 - EXHIBITS ON FISHING AND AS
02:20 - WE'RE COLLECTING THINGS AND GET
02:21 - MORE MATERIAL OVER THE YEARS
02:22 - WILL FILL IT IN ABOUT THE
02:24 - GROWTH OF A SNAG ATION THAT
02:28 - HOLE STRUCTURE OF
02:30 - INFRASTRUCTURE AND GOVERNMENT
02:32 - TO SUPPLY DAYS. NAVIGATION THAT
02:34 - HELPED THE THE
02:36 - SHIPS NAVIGATE AROUND THE
02:37 - LAKES, LIFESAVING QUITE A FEW
02:41 - STORIES TO TELL WHAT WE HAVEN'T
02:43 - GOT TO YET. BUT WE HAVE A
02:44 - PRETTY GOOD COVERAGE ON THE
02:45 - WAR OF 18, 12. NOW YOU'RE A
02:47 - SENIOR CAPTAIN OF THE U.S. BRIG
02:49 - NIAGARA. WE TALK A LITTLE ABOUT
02:50 - HOW YOU CAME TO THAT POSITION.
02:53 - YES, I'VE ALWAYS WORKED IN AND
02:58 - SPECIAL 7 SHIPS, NO WAR.
03:00 - THE REPLICAS RESTORATIONS FOR
03:02 - EDUCATIONAL OR MUSEUM SHIPS.
03:08 - STARTED SOUTH STREET SEAPORT
03:09 - MUSEUM SAILED ON THE SCHOONER
03:11 - PLAYING HERE FOR A NUMBER OF
03:12 - YEARS. I WORKED ON THE
03:13 - RESTORATION OF THE ALYSSA FOR
03:15 - THE GALVESTON HISTORICAL
03:16 - FOUNDATION'S WHO'S AN IRON
03:18 - MERCHANT SHIP. 18. 77. AND THEN
03:23 - SHE SALE.
03:24 - FOR NUMBER YEARS THAT YOU STILL
03:26 - SALES ON A LIMITED BASIS.
03:30 - I WAS I WAS RECRUITED. TO COME
03:33 - HERE IN 1991. WANT TO SEE IF IT
03:36 - WAS FEASIBLE TO DO REGULAR
03:38 - SAILING PROGRAM TRAINING SOME
03:40 - VOLUNTEERS AND HAVING A SMALL
03:42 - PROFESSIONAL CREW AND WE JUST
03:44 - WORK OUT A PROGRAM TO UTILIZE
03:46 - THE SHIP. AND TAKERS IMPORTS
03:49 - END. IT WAS A 6 MONTH CONTRACT
03:51 - AND
03:52 - THAT EXTENDED FOR YEAR MAN.
03:55 - >>WELL, I'M STILL HERE, BUT IT
03:56 - TURNED OUT TO BE A PRETTY GOOD
03:57 - FIT. SO I I CAME TO THIS BEING
04:00 - A. A SEAMAN WITH AN INTEREST
04:02 - IN HISTORY. AND I I DON'T HAVE
04:05 - ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS AS A
04:07 - HISTORIAN, I AM.
04:11 - TO TELL A STORY. WE HAVE TO
04:12 - LEARN A LOT ABOUT IT. AND
04:14 - >>WE DO ALL READING THE
04:15 - MATERIAL ALL THE RESEARCH AND
04:18 - AND SO I PARTICIPATE IN A GREAT
04:20 - DEAL OF THE THE RESEARCH AND
04:22 - DESIGN OF THE EXHIBIT THIS
04:23 - MUSEUM SUCH INTERWEAVING THE
04:26 - TECHNOLOGY, THE SHIP. WITH THE
04:29 - WITH HISTORICAL STORY. SO I
04:31 - CAME INTO BEING A CAPTAIN
04:32 - REVENUES IN THIS TRAITOR, LAKE
04:35 - ERIE AND A LOT OF WAYS
04:36 - STRADDLES 2 WORLDS
04:37 - SIMULTANEOUSLY. AMERICAN AND
04:39 - CANADIAN.
04:40 - >>COULD YOU TALK ABOUT WHY THIS
04:41 - LAKE WAS SO IMPORTANT IN THE
04:43 - YEAR 18, 12? WELL, SEE THE
04:44 - LAKERS, THE ONLY WAY.
04:47 - TO THIS DAY, THE MOST EFFICIENT
04:48 - WAY TO MOVE ANYTHING HEAVIEST
04:50 - FLOAT IT.
04:51 - AND IN 18 13, THAT WAS REALLY
04:54 - EVEN MORE SO BECAUSE THE ROADS
04:56 - WERE.
04:57 - THE REASON NONEXISTENT OR OR
04:59 - PRETTY MUGGY. A LOT OF THE YEAR
05:01 - HE HAD TO WAIT FOR GOOD WEATHER
05:02 - SHORE JUST LIKE IT'S 8. YOU
05:04 - MIGHT BE WIND DOWN WAITING FOR
05:05 - A DECENT WIND IN THE RIGHT
05:06 - DIRECTION OR STORM DIE DOWN
05:09 - BEFORE YOU SELL ON THE LAKE.
05:10 - BUT ON THE LAND, GET AWAY FOR
05:12 - GOOD WEATHER DRY ENOUGH ROAD.
05:13 - REAR AXLES A SINK IN AND YOUR
05:16 - WHEELS, YOUR SINK. AND AFTER
05:17 - THE AXLE. AND SO LAND TRAVEL IS
05:20 - VERY DIFFICULT. VERY SLOW OR
05:21 - INEFFICIENT. THEY WORRY ABOUT
05:23 - WHERE THERE ISN'T A FORWARD FOR
05:24 - THE HORSES AND THEN AND A LOT
05:27 - OF THE AREAS AROUND HERE FOR
05:29 - HEAVILY WOODED. THAT WILL BE
05:31 - AN ISSUE. AND THEN ALSO
05:35 - AS YOU WENT FURTHER TOWARDS
05:37 - THE WESTERN END OF THE LAKE,
05:38 - YOU ARE SO SUBJECT TO AN
05:39 - ADDICTION BY THE BUT THE
05:42 - INDIANS. WHO WERE GENERALLY
05:46 - MORE SUPPORTIVE OF THE BRITISH.
05:48 - AS BEING THE LESSER OF 2 EVILS
05:50 - IN TERMS OF WHO IS MOST LIKELY
05:52 - TO TAKE THEIR LANDS, A VICTIM
05:53 - FROM IT. IT WAS A LONG HISTORY
05:55 - OF THAT POINT TO THE AMERICANS
05:57 - DOING SO AND A LOT OF THE
06:00 - TRIBES.
06:01 - WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO STAY
06:03 - NEUTRAL OR STAY OUT OF THIS AND
06:04 - KEEP THEIR HEADS DOWN AND AVOID
06:06 - TROUBLE IF THEY COULD. THOSE
06:09 - THAT DID TAKE UP MORE OF THEM.
06:12 - IT'S ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH.
06:13 - AND SO FOR THE AMERICANS WHO IS
06:15 - VERY VITAL. TO BE ABLE TO, TO
06:17 - MOVE BY LAKE.
06:21 - WHOSE ONLY OFFICIAL WITH THE
06:22 - MOVEMENT OF SUPPLIES.
06:24 - >>WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP
06:25 - BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
06:27 - CANADA IN THE YEAR TO 12?
06:31 - >>CANADA. REALLY BARELY
06:34 - EXISTED.
06:36 - AND THAT IS SO SPARSELY.
06:37 - SO THE POPULATION SO SMALL,
06:40 - IT WAS CALLED THE CANADA.
06:41 - IT.
06:43 - YOU KNOW, WAS INSERTED ONE
06:44 - COUNTRY. IT WAS A SERIES OF
06:46 - SEPARATE COLONIES. SO NEW FOR
06:48 - THE LONDON NOVA SCOTIA WERE
06:50 - SEPARATELY ADMINISTERED THE
06:52 - QUEBEC HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER
06:54 - AFTER THE FRENCH INDIAN WAR
06:57 - ONTARIO WAS THE. THAT WAS THE
07:00 - FAR WEST AND VERY SPARSELY
07:03 - SETTLED AND SO.
07:06 - AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS NOT
07:07 - A BAD ONE AT SUCH AS IT WENT.
07:11 - WE HAD A GREAT MANY PEOPLE WHO
07:12 - MOVED INTO CANADA BECAUSE LANDS
07:14 - LITTLE CHEAPER. THERE AND THEIR
07:15 - AMERICAN-BORN.
07:18 - AND THEY ENDED UP IN A VERY
07:19 - BAD PLACE AND WE DIDN'T TRUST
07:23 - THEM AFTER THEY CROSSED OVER
07:24 - BECAUSE THEY LEFT THE COUNTRY
07:25 - AND WENT TO THE VERSUS ANOTHER
07:27 - COUNTRY AND THROUGH THE VARIOUS
07:28 - DIDN'T TRUST THEM BECAUSE THEY
07:29 - CAME FROM AMERICA.
07:31 - >>THEY CAME FROM THE STATES
07:32 - AND MOST OF THEM SIMPLY WANTED
07:34 - TO.
07:36 - BY FARM AND AFFORDABLE PRICES.
07:38 - AND WE'RE KITTEN.
07:41 - STAY THE HELL. I WAS WAY.
07:43 - AND SO IS THERE A POLITICAL?
07:45 - I SAY PROBABLY. THESE PEOPLE
07:48 - WERE CAUGHT ON THE ON THE ON
07:52 - THE SHIFTING TECTONIC PLATES
07:54 - OF EMPIRE. WE'VE GOT CAUGHT ON
07:56 - THE EDGE. THAT'S I GOT SUCKED
07:58 - INTO THE FIGHT.
08:00 - IF YOU VISIT ERIE TODAY, IT'S
08:02 - STILL VERY MUCH A MARITIME
08:03 - CITY. WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN 18?
08:04 - 12?
08:06 - WHY SING ONE QUALIFIES. THE
08:08 - CITY. MAYBE OF ALL OF IT.
08:11 - A FRONTIER TOWN ABOUT 500
08:14 - PEOPLE.
08:17 - WHEN THE BUILDING CREW CAME
08:18 - HERE FOR THE BUILDING, AMERICAN
08:20 - SQUADRON HERE, THE DEVILLE LOG
08:22 - THAT THE BILL LOG CABIN SAID
08:24 - BILL LAW BUILDINGS TO HOUSE
08:25 - THE CREWS TOO, TO WORK THROUGH
08:28 - THE WINTER AND GET THE SHIP'S
08:29 - DONE. AND SO IT'S VERY SMALL.
08:33 - FRONTIER.
08:36 - IN 18, 12. YOU'RE VERY MUCH
08:38 - LIVING IN A WORLD SUPERPOWERS.
08:40 - BUT AMERICA WASN'T ONE OF THE
08:41 - SUPERPOWERS. WAS IT?
08:43 - YOU KNOW, AMERICA DOES NOT
08:45 - REGISTER AS AS A POWER PERIOD.
08:48 - IT TO WAS SO SMALL AND SO.
08:55 - HERE, THE POPULATION THAT THE
08:56 - TIME WAS. I DON'T RECALL, BUT
09:00 - IT WAS I WAS UNDER 10 MILLION,
09:03 - MAYBE 7, HAVE THEIR KNOWLEDGE.
09:05 - THAT'S WHAT I WOULD. BUT AND
09:07 - THIS STILL MOSTLY MOST OF THE
09:08 - EAST COAST. AND YOU HAVE THIS
09:10 - VERY THIN. LINE OF SETTLEMENT
09:13 - THAT GOES OVER THE APPALACHIANS
09:15 - AND DOWN THE OHIO RIVER AND
09:17 - AND FOLLOWS THE WATERWAYS AND
09:20 - YOU KNOW, CLEVELAND IS 50
09:21 - HOUSES.
09:24 - AREAS, 500
09:28 - THAT SIZE SMALLER. AND SO
09:34 - YOU WERE OUT OF POWER. ALL WE
09:36 - WE HAVE TINY NAVY. WE'VE BUILT
09:39 - UP TO FIGHT THE BARBARY PIRATES
09:41 - FIGHT THE NORTH AFRICAN
09:42 - STATE'S. AND THEN AFTER THAT
09:44 - WAR AND 18, 0, 7,
09:48 - THE FLEET WAS LARGELY TO LAID
09:51 - UP AND PEOPLE PUT ON
09:55 - FOR LOW AND AND THE ARMY WAS
09:58 - MISS SCHOOL.
10:01 - UNDER 5,000, MOSTLY ON THE
10:03 - WESTERN FRONT. HERE'S TO TRY TO
10:04 - DEFEND SETTLEMENTS
10:09 - INDIANS DEFENDING THEIR SO THE
10:14 - THE COUNTRY WAS NOT PREPARED AT
10:15 - ALL FOR A WAR.
10:21 - IT'S REALLY AMAZING THAT THE
10:22 - THE PEOPLE WHO CONSISTENTLY
10:24 - VOTED AGAINST SAYING TAXES TO
10:25 - PAY FOR A STRONG MILITARY.
10:27 - WE'RE BIASED. PEOPLE VOTED FOR
10:29 - THE WAR AND WHAT THEY'RE
10:30 - THINKING. THEY DID A. ON THAT
10:35 - NOTE WHO WORE THE SUPERPOWERS
10:37 - AND WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
10:39 - WELL, THE 2 DOMINANT POWERS
10:41 - WERE GREAT BRITAIN AND THEY
10:45 - READ EACH OTHER'S THROATS
10:46 - CONTINUOUSLY SINCE ABOUT 17.
10:48 - 92 HISTORICALLY MANY YEARS OF
10:51 - A WAR. BUT INTERSPERSED WITH
10:54 - PERIODS OF
10:56 - DORMANCY, LET'S SAY, FROM SOME
11:00 - TEA, MAYBE 2 WHEN THE FRENCH
11:02 - REVOLUTION. WHEN. THE
11:08 - NEIGHBORING STATES DECIDE TO
11:09 - HAVE A CRACK AT QUASHING FRENCH
11:11 - REVOLUTION. AND THEN THE FRENCH
11:14 - PROVED THAT THEY COULD DEFEND
11:15 - THEMSELVES. THEN AND THEN WENT
11:17 - ON THE RAMPAGE AGAINST.
11:19 - REST OF EUROPE.
11:22 - FROM 17 92 EXCEPT FOR THE
11:25 - PIECE. I'M IN LITTLE MISSION
11:27 - ABOUT 18 O 3. THERE WAS JUST
11:30 - CONTINUOUS WARFARE UNTIL EASY
11:33 - TO STEAM. THE BRITISH ARE, AS
11:35 - YOU SAID, THAT CONTINUOUS MORE
11:36 - WITH FRANCE. WHAT WAS AND WHY
11:39 - WAS IT SUCH A BIG DEAL? IMPRESS
11:41 - MONTHS WAS LIKE A. CONSCRIPTION
11:44 - INTO THE NAVY.
11:47 - IT
11:49 - THIS IS WHERE IRONICALLY THE
11:51 - PEOPLE WHO BRING WAS THE FREEST
11:53 - COUNTRY IN EUROPE BY A LONG
11:54 - SHOT.
11:55 - I'VE OFTEN SAID THE ONLY REASON
11:57 - THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HAD A
11:58 - PRAYER SUCCEEDING. THIS IS
11:59 - BECAUSE WE'RE ALREADY THE
12:00 - FREEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
12:03 - WE WE WERE UNDER LEGAL SYSTEM,
12:05 - A RELATIVELY HARD TO PUT PEOPLE
12:06 - IN JAIL.
12:07 - AND SO WASHINGTON JEFFERSON
12:09 - DOLLS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN
12:10 - HEARD FROM FOR EVERYBODY ELSE
12:11 - IS CALLING MOVING, LOCKED UP
12:12 - AND THROW AWAY THE KEY FOR SUN.
12:14 - MAYBE NOISE. THE REASON WE GOT
12:15 - AWAY WITH IT WAS BECAUSE THIS
12:17 - WAS A COUNTRY HAD A FREE PRESS
12:20 - HAD A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF
12:22 - FREEDOM. BUT IN BRITAIN, THEY
12:26 - SAID THE NAVY IS ABSOLUTELY
12:27 - ESSENTIAL. THEY COULD HAVE A
12:28 - VOLUNTEER ARMY ONLY COUNTRY IN
12:30 - EUROPE THAT VOLUNTEER ARMY.
12:33 - BUT THE NAVY, THEY THEY NEEDED
12:35 - IT AND THEY WANTED VOLUNTEERS
12:37 - FOR THE NAVY AND SOMETIMES GOT
12:39 - THEM. BUT THEY WERE ALWAYS
12:40 - SHORT COMPARED NUMBER OF PEOPLE
12:41 - WHO REALLY NEED IT. AND
12:43 - PRESSMAN SAID THEY COULD
12:44 - SCENES.
12:48 - IN VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN THE
12:49 - NAVY.
12:50 - AND ONLY IN LA CITIZENS WHO ARE
12:52 - SUBJECT TO THIS THEORETICALLY.
12:57 - BRITISH SAILORS. WERE STARTING
12:59 - TO.
13:02 - AS THE WAR'S GETTING. IT'S JUST
13:04 - GOING TO IT. I GET HOME.
13:06 - YOU KNOW, THEN THE WARS IN THE
13:07 - MID 18TH CENTURY MAYBE GET
13:09 - IMPRESSED OFF THE FISHING
13:10 - VESSEL MERCHANT VESSEL AND
13:12 - YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW AND YOU
13:14 - PUT UP WITH IT AND YOU SURVIVE
13:15 - AND AND MAYBE 2, 3, LATE AS
13:17 - YOU GET HOME TO 3 YEARS LATER.
13:19 - BUT AT THIS WAR.
13:21 - THEY GOT IN THIS VICIOUS CYCLE
13:23 - WHERE THEY WERE IN GRANTING
13:24 - SURELY BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD
13:25 - DESERT BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T
13:27 - SEEING THEIR THEIR HOMES AND
13:28 - EVER SAW THE RELATIVES AGAIN.
13:30 - AND SO THEY'RE KEEPING HIM ON
13:31 - THE SHIP'S THIS GAME OR SOURCES
13:33 - VICIOUS CYCLE. AND SO PEOPLE
13:35 - ARE DESERVING. THEY'RE HAVING A
13:36 - LOT OF DESERTION AND THE MOST
13:38 - POPULAR PLACE TO DESERT IS ON
13:40 - TO THE AMERICAN SHIP AND SOME
13:41 - FOREIGN PORT. BOTH SHIPS ARE
13:43 - IN PORT. YOU WOULD THEN SIGN ON
13:45 - THE SO MUCH. WE SPOKE THE SAME
13:47 - LANGUAGE OFFERED REEMPLOYMENT
13:49 - GENERALLY AT A HIGHER WAGE.
13:50 - WE'RE NOT A WAR. SO THEY'RE
13:52 - HEMORRHAGING PEOPLE INTO
13:53 - AMERICAN SHIPS.
13:55 - AND SO THEY START STOPPING
13:57 - AMERICAN SHIPS.
13:59 - THEY'RE STOPPING EVERY SHIP
14:00 - THAT RAN ACROSS KNOW SWEDISH
14:02 - FRENCH, DUTCH BRADY, YOU KNOW,
14:03 - WHATEVER AND LOOKING FOR
14:05 - BRITISH SEAMEN. ON OUR AMERICAN
14:08 - SHIP. NOW, HOW TO TELL THE
14:10 - DIFFERENCE.
14:12 - WHO'S WHO? NO FINGERPRINTS,
14:14 - NO PASSPORTS.
14:16 - AND SO A LOT OF AMERICANS GOT
14:17 - FORCED INTO SERVICE IN THE
14:18 - ROYAL NAVY. IT WAS ONLY
14:21 - INTENDED FOR TRYING TO RECOUNT
14:23 - RECAPTURE THEIR OWN. IT HAD
14:26 - A A FAR BIGGER NET THAN THAT.
14:31 - AND THAT WAS A LET'S SAY,
14:34 - EGREGIOUS.
14:36 - VIOLATION OF RIGHTS. YOU MY
14:38 - BRITISH STANDARDS.
14:41 - THAT'S A PARTICULAR OVER
14:42 - STANDARDS. IT WAS. THE COUNTRY
14:45 - THAT. THAT WAS THE FREEST IN
14:48 - EUROPE AND THAT THEY WOULD
14:49 - DISAPPEAR THEIR OWN PEOPLE OFF
14:50 - THE STREETS AND FOR SOMEONE TO
14:52 - THE SHIPS. NOW, THE BRITISH
14:54 - ALWAYS CLAIMED TO RULE THE
14:55 - SEAS. WE KNOW THAT NOW HOW DOES
14:57 - THAT TRANSLATE TO THE GREAT
14:58 - LAKES?
15:00 - IT WENT AS FAR AS THE WAR WENT.
15:03 - BUT IT DIDN'T GO AS FAR AS
15:04 - FRESH WATER PICKED UP.
15:07 - THE REASON AMERICANS HAD A
15:08 - PRAYER OF SURVIVING THE WAR OF
15:10 - 18, 12.
15:12 - WAS BECAUSE THE MIGHT OF THE
15:13 - ROYAL NAVY COULD NOT EASILY
15:16 - PENETRATE THE CONTINENT BEYOND
15:18 - MONTREAL. MONTREAL IS BUILT.
15:20 - WHERE WAS THIS IS THE HEAD OF
15:21 - NAVIGATION IS AS FAR AS YOU
15:23 - CAN GET OCEANGOING SHIP ON THE
15:24 - SAINT. LAWRENCE BEFORE THE SEA
15:26 - WAS BUILT.
15:27 - AND SO BOTH THE ONLINE TREE
15:29 - ALWAYS LOVE SHEEN RAPIDS.
15:30 - THIS TREMENDOUS EXPANSIVE
15:32 - TUMBLING. WATER, BROKEN WATER,
15:34 - WHOLE ROCK. EVERY MILE WEST
15:37 - FROM THERE TO CARRY THINGS.
15:40 - PORTAGE TO GET TO WATER WHERE
15:42 - YOU CAN PUT HIM IN CANOES OR
15:44 - SMALL VESSELS. THERE WAS NO
15:45 - CENTER RAPIDS OF CORNWALL
15:47 - BEFORE YOU CAN GET UP THE RIVER
15:49 - TO KINGSTON. SO SHIPS FOR LAKE
15:51 - ONTARIO HAD TO BE BUILT THERE.
15:54 - AND THEN WITH THAT BEFALL
15:55 - SEPARATING LAKE ERIE FROM LAKE
15:57 - ONTARIO, SHIPS FOR LAKE ERIE
15:58 - HAD TO BE BUILT THERE.
16:00 - AND SO BOTH SIDES GOT OFF TO
16:02 - A FAIRLY EVEN START.
16:05 - BECAUSE OF THE MIGHT OF THE
16:06 - ROYAL NAVY COULD SIMPLY NOT BE
16:08 - EXTENDED SAILING UP INTO THE
16:09 - GREAT LAKES.
16:11 - THE WAR OF 18, 12 US CONSIDER.
16:13 - ONE OF THE MORE CONFUSING WARS
16:14 - IN AMERICAN HISTORY. COULD YOU
16:16 - TAKE US THROUGH THE EVENTS THAT
16:18 - COLLUDED TO BRING US TO THAT
16:20 - POINT.
16:26 - WE'LL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE, BUT
16:28 - I'D SAY THE THE PRIMARY CAUSES
16:30 - THAT WAR WERE.
16:32 - IMPRESSIVE WAS ONE OF THEM.
16:33 - BUT THAT WOULD NOT HAVE DONE ON
16:35 - ITS OWN BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE
16:36 - WHO FELT WELL, OK, IF YOU WANT
16:38 - TO SAIL A WAR ZONE, YOU TAKE
16:39 - YOUR CHANCES. THERE'S PLENTY OF
16:41 - THINGS TO DO DOMESTICALLY.
16:44 - THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE WERE
16:47 - BRITAIN PASS LAWS THAT WOULD
16:49 - BASICALLY PROHIBIT TRADE WITH
16:50 - THE CONTINENT BECAUSE THAT WAS
16:52 - AS FAR AS SERVICES AND ME HELD.
16:55 - AND POLAND HAVE ABOUT THE SAME
16:57 - SET OF LAWS THAT JUST THAT THE
16:59 - FRENCH NAVY DIDN'T HAVE THE
17:00 - POWER TO ENFORCE THEM AS MUCH.
17:02 - BUT AMERICAN SHIPS ARE SIR
17:03 - KINGSLEY SEIZED BY THE FRENCH
17:05 - MARKET SHIP TO BE SEIZED BY
17:06 - THE BRITISH IF THEY HAD A CARGO
17:08 - BOUND FOR EUROPEAN PORT FOR
17:10 - FRENCH PORT.
17:14 - BUT MERCHANTS ARE STILL MAKING
17:15 - MONEY.
17:17 - THE DEMAND FOR FREIGHT WAS SUCH
17:18 - A DEMAND FOR GOODS AND SUCH.
17:20 - THE FRATES WERE SO HIGH THAT
17:22 - ON THE SHIPS TO GOT THROUGH.
17:24 - HE MADE UP FOR THE ONES YOU
17:25 - LOST. BUT STILL.
17:29 - >>THE FRUSTRATION OVER THE
17:30 - SEIZURES AND OVER THE STOPPAGES
17:32 - OF TRADE.
17:33 - >>AND THE ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS
17:35 - IMPOSED. THAT WAS PROBABLY VERY
17:37 - COMPELLING.
17:42 - AND THEN ALSO THE PEOPLE IN
17:43 - THE WEST. I FELT THAT AS LONG
17:45 - AS YOU HAVE A BRITISH PRESENCE
17:46 - IN NORTH AMERICA, THAT WOULD BE
17:48 - ENCOURAGING THE INDIANS TO
17:50 - RESIST WESTWARD EXPANSION.
17:52 - NOW, THE BRITISH DID NOT WANT A
17:53 - WAR. THESE THE STOP SHORT OF
17:55 - AN INCITING TRIBES TO ATTACK.
17:59 - THEIR POLICY VERY CLEARLY WAS
18:01 - TOO HELP. THE INDIANS MAINTAIN
18:04 - A LEVEL OF INDEPENDENCE IS A
18:06 - BUFFER.
18:07 - BECAUSE THE GROWTH OF THE
18:08 - UNITED STATES WAS NOT DESIRABLE
18:10 - TO GREAT BRITAIN BECAUSE
18:13 - WELL, THEY NEVER KNOW WHAT SIDE
18:15 - WILL BE ON THE FUTURE. WARMING
18:17 - RELY WITH FRANCE AGAINST THEM.
18:20 - THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A LEVEL
18:22 - OF AMITY. OR REASONABLE.
18:26 - AMITY AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
18:28 - THAT'S ALWAYS AMAZE ME HOW
18:29 - QUICK THEY GOT OVER THAT.
18:30 - THIS AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
18:33 - WAS ONLY
18:35 - FROM THIS POINT. THIS OF
18:37 - TAXABLE. THE GUY HAND AND THEN
18:39 - YOU PEOPLE THAT RE YOUR COUNTRY
18:41 - BY GOING TO HELP FOR THE FRENCH
18:42 - ARE TRADITIONAL ENEMY WHEN YOU
18:44 - WOULD NOT LIVE THE DAY UNDER
18:45 - THE UNDER THE FRENCH KING, THE
18:47 - EMBRACES HELP.
18:49 - AND THAT WAS LOOKED AT AS THE
18:50 - SO THE ULTIMATE REASONS TO GO
18:52 - ENLIST FRENCH HELP.
18:54 - FOR THE FOR THE REVOLUTION.
18:55 - AND SO IF THIS, IF THIS
18:57 - UNKNOWN. COUNTRY PRIMARILY A
19:02 - POLITICAL. GET RICH QUICK
19:05 - SCHEMERS.
19:07 - YOU NEVER KNEW WHICH WAY THEY
19:08 - TURNS. SELF IN GROVER, A BIG
19:10 - AND STRONG. IT WAS ALRIGHT
19:11 - SOURCE. THEY WERE CONCERNED
19:14 - SO MOVING GETTING GETTING THE
19:16 - BRITISH OUT OF HERE WOULD BE
19:17 - THE KEY TO GETTING THE INDIANS
19:18 - OUT. AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF
19:21 - SENTIMENT FOR THAT. SO IT WAS
19:24 - IT WAS A CUMULATIVE
19:25 - FRUSTRATION.
19:28 - I THINK A LOT OF DECLARATION OF
19:29 - WAR ZONE PRECIPITATING EVENT.
19:32 - THERE'S NO ONE CAUSE.
19:34 - AND IT'S A DEEPLY DIVIDED
19:36 - CONGRESS AND DOES IT. IT'S 40%
19:38 - DISSENTING VOTES IN BOTH HOUSES
19:41 - AND SO MUCH OVER
19:46 - ANY SYMPATHY FOR BRITAIN'S
19:48 - POSITION THAT WAS GUYS TO DO
19:50 - THIS RETHINKING.
19:53 - AND ACTUALLY, I DON'T THINK
19:54 - NOWADAYS WE CALLED INTELLIGENCE
19:56 - FAILURE. BECAUSE OF THAT TIME
19:58 - THEY DIDN'T. THEN WHAT THEY'RE
20:00 - UP AGAINST LITERALLY. I DON'T
20:03 - THINK THEY QUITE REALIZE A NEW
20:05 - BRITAIN WAS BIG NEWS POWERFUL,
20:07 - BUT I DON'T THINK THEY QUITE
20:08 - REALIZED HOME. SO HOW BIG THE
20:10 - DISPARITY WAS? WE DECLARED WAR
20:13 - ON THE POWER WHOSE ARMED FORCES
20:15 - OUTNUMBER OWNED BY ROUGHLY 24
20:17 - TO ONE.
20:20 - BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO
20:21 - OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OF
20:23 - CIA, NO SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE,
20:24 - HOW THEY CAN DO THIS.
20:27 - THE AMERICANS HAVE VERY LITTLE
20:28 - PRESENCE ON THE GREAT LAKES
20:29 - FROM ANY MILITARY CAPACITY.
20:31 - THE BRITISH DO YOU TALK ABOUT
20:33 - WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY'RE
20:34 - DOING? WELL, THEY HAVE A
20:35 - PROVINCIAL MARINE, WHICH WAS A
20:37 - TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR THE ARMY,
20:39 - HAS HAD A FEW ARMS SHIP SAID
20:41 - THAT AS START THAT WAY. AND
20:43 - THEY HAD SOME AND WE HAD
20:45 - FRONTIER FORTS THAT WE WERE
20:47 - GUERRA, SOMETHING AND THEY HAD
20:49 - A FEW FORTS IN THE AREA BUT
20:53 - VERY, VERY WEAKLY MAN RECENTLY
20:55 - HELD THE BRITISH BASICALLY DID
20:58 - NOT THINK THEY CAN HOLD ON TO
21:00 - CANADA.
21:01 - AND THEY WERE VERY PLEASANTLY
21:02 - SURPRISED TO DISCOVER THE
21:03 - INCOMPETENCE OF THEIR ATTACKERS
21:05 - GIVEN THE PRAYER. HANG ON TO
21:07 - IT. WHO IS DANIEL DOBBINS?
21:10 - JAMES DOBBINS WAS A YEARY SHIP
21:12 - MASTER. HE CAME HERE IS THIS IS
21:14 - A LAND SURVEYOR.
21:16 - AND THEN STARTED GETTING INTO
21:18 - BUSINESS VENTURES, WHICH
21:19 - REQUIRED TRAINING MOVING AROUND
21:20 - THE LAKE. AND PRETTY SOON YOU
21:22 - REALIZE THE ONLY WAY TO GET
21:23 - AROUND HERE IS BY WATER AND SO
21:26 - HE EVENTUALLY LEARNED SALE,
21:28 - BECAME A SEAMAN.
21:30 - AND THEN WAS OWNER AND MASTER
21:32 - OF HIS OWN MERCHANT VESSEL, A
21:33 - SCHOONER THAT PRIMARILY HILTON
21:35 - ASSAULT, WHICH IS VERY
21:37 - IMPORTANT COMMODITY THEM IT WAS
21:39 - A SURFER PRESERVING FOOD THAT
21:41 - SURVEY HAVE SOLVED. IF YOU'RE.
21:47 - JUST SOME OF THOSE ESSENTIAL
21:48 - LIFE.
21:49 - AREAS OF SALT MINES ARE ALWAYS
21:51 - GOING TO BE A READY MARKET TO
21:53 - TRANSPORT THE STUFF ANYWHERE
21:54 - ELSE. SO DOMINANT WAS AM.
21:58 - A MAN WHO WAS.
22:02 - PRETTY WELL RESPECTED, WELL
22:03 - KNOWN COMING UP IN THE TRADE IN
22:05 - AND BECOMING A A
22:09 - RELATIVELY WELL TO DO MERCHANT.
22:11 - AND SO YOU SHOULD MASTER A NEW
22:13 - GEOGRAPHY OF THE LAKES.
22:15 - PROBABLY BETTER THAN ANYBODY
22:16 - TIME.
22:17 - HE WAS THAT BACK IN ALL, IT WAS
22:19 - CAPTURED AND THEN THAT RIGHT?
22:21 - AND HE BROUGHT THE NEWS IN
22:22 - PERSON TO THE CABIN WASHINGTON
22:25 - OF THE DISASTER OF HOW BADLY
22:27 - HOLES AND ASIA TURNED OUT THAT
22:29 - THE WHOLE U.S. NORTHWEST
22:30 - FRONTIER WAS WAS UNDER DIRE
22:32 - THREAT AND HE. I THINK
22:34 - PERSUADED THEM OR WAS ABLE WITH
22:36 - HIS FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE OF THE
22:37 - AREA TO SHOW WHAT YOU REALLY
22:39 - NEED TO DO IS YOU BUILD A SQUAD
22:41 - RIGHT AWAY. AND HERE IS THE
22:43 - PLACE TO DO IT. WHY DO YOU
22:45 - THINK HE WAS SO KEEN ON ERIE
22:47 - AND PRESQUE ISLE BE A BABY IN
22:48 - THE PLACE.
22:50 - PARTIALLY BECAUSE THAT REALLY
22:52 - IS THE ONLY GOOD HARBOR.
22:54 - LET'S HEAR IT WAS A GOOD
22:55 - SHELTER PORT. IT WAS ACCESSIBLE
22:58 - TO THE LEVEL OF INDUSTRY.
22:59 - WE SHORT SUPPLY LINES, TOO.
23:03 - PITTSBURGH. ALSO LOSE HIS HOME.
23:06 - SO HE WOULD NATURALLY HAVE THE
23:08 - VOTES HAVE BIAS AND THAT.
23:09 - BUT IN THIS CASE, I THINK IT
23:10 - WAS ALSO JUST A REASONABLE
23:12 - REFLECTION. IT WAS THE BEST
23:13 - PLACE TO. NOW DOBBINS HAD A
23:16 - BIG PLAN. ISAAC CHAUNCEY IS
23:18 - A BIG PART OF THAT STORY,
23:20 - THOUGH. WHO IS HE? AND WHY IS
23:21 - IMPORTANT? WELL, AS THE CHANCES
23:23 - U.S. NAVY CAPTAIN WHO GETS
23:25 - APPOINTED AS THE COMMANDER OF
23:27 - THE THOUGH, THE GREAT LAKES
23:29 - THEATER OF OPERATIONS. HE'S THE
23:31 - AREA COMMANDER. SO HE'S
23:33 - BUILDING ON LAKE ONTARIO.
23:34 - HE HAD BEEN CUT. COMES ON TO
23:36 - NEW YORK, NEW YORK, MAYBE OUR
23:37 - BEFORE THE WAR. HE HAS MOVED
23:39 - UP TO LAKE ONTARIO. AND THAT'S
23:41 - THE REAL STRATEGIC HE BECAUSE
23:43 - WHOEVER CONTROLS ONTARIO.
23:46 - IF YOU CAN CAPTURE.
23:48 - THE BRITISH TOWN OF KINGSTON
23:51 - IN TORONTO, THE CUT OFF ALL
23:52 - SUPPLIES MOVING WEST FROM
23:54 - THERE, EVERYTHING TO THE WEST
23:55 - OF THAT FALLS AND THE SAME TIME
23:57 - THE BRITISH TO CHA SAYS FLEET,
24:01 - THEN HE'D WANT LOST THE WAR AND
24:03 - AFTERNOON FOR US.
24:04 - AND SO THE MAIN EFFORT IS IS
24:07 - IS ON LAKE ONTARIO, BIGGER
24:09 - SQUADRONS ARE BUILT BIGGER
24:10 - SHIPS, MORE OF THEM. LAKE
24:12 - ERIE'S, A SIDESHOW.
24:16 - YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT LAKE
24:17 - ONTARIO BECAUSE THE BATTLES
24:18 - THERE WERE THERE WAS NEVER A
24:19 - DECISIVE BATTLE.
24:21 - THOUGH, THAT THEY WOULD ENGAGE.
24:22 - AND SO HE'S GETTING THE WORST
24:23 - OF IT. THEY PULLED BACK BECAUSE
24:24 - BOTH COMMANDERS MORE CAN WE'RE
24:26 - CONCERNED ABOUT SORT OF BEING A
24:28 - ON DEFENSIVE GUARD, THEIR
24:29 - POSITION. WHAT WERE THEY
24:31 - INSTRUCTED TO BUILD HERE IN
24:32 - PRESQUE ISLE BAY?
24:34 - WELL, FOR STARTERS, THEY WERE
24:35 - BUILDING A FEW GUNBOATS FOR
24:37 - GUN BOATS, WHICH IS SORT OF A
24:39 - GENERIC TERM FOR ANY SMALL
24:42 - DUST. SO LITTLE HAD A COUPLE
24:43 - OF GUNS ON BECAUSE
24:51 - THE AREA WAS NOT WELL CHARTED
24:53 - IT ALL. THE NO IDEA OF THE
24:56 - HAZARDS AND A LOT OF THE AREAS
24:57 - OF SNOW AS EXTENSIVE. A LOT
24:58 - OF ROCKS AND SHOALS. THEY WANT
25:00 - A SMALL MUSCLES THAT NOT SO
25:02 - MUCH WOULD BE AT RISK AND THEY
25:03 - COULD PASS OVER A LOT OF
25:04 - SHOALS.
25:06 - >>BUT THEY ALSO DECIDE THEY
25:07 - NEED MORE FIREPOWER. AND
25:09 - THEY'RE ALSO CHOOSES. IT WAS
25:10 - ALSO 2 EFFORTS GOING ON AT
25:12 - FIRST SEAN CD TAILED JESSE
25:14 - DUNCAN ELLIOTT TO GO TO BLACK
25:16 - ROCK, WHICH IS ON THE NIAGARA
25:19 - RIVER JUST NORTH OF BUFFALO
25:21 - AND ESTABLISH A NAVAL STATION
25:23 - THERE AND TO BUY UP WHATEVER
25:26 - MERCHANT VESSELS ARE AVAILABLE.
25:28 - SO WE'LL SCHOONERS AND CONVERT
25:30 - THEM TO 2 WARSHIPS BY PUTTING
25:32 - GUNS ON THEM AND STRENGTHENING
25:34 - THEIR DECKS AND BORIC'S A
25:36 - LITTLE BIT.
25:37 - AND SO THAT CONVERSION WORK WAS
25:39 - GOING BUFFALO, JUST
25:42 - NORTH OF AND AND THEN CHAUNCEY
25:45 - ALSO LEFT ORDERS FOR STARTING
25:48 - TO CUT TIMBER.
25:49 - >>SUFFICIENT TO BUILD A BRIG.
25:51 - WE CARRY 20 GUNS.
25:53 - >>BUT IT CAME TO VISIT HERE IN
25:55 - NIAGARA ON JANUARY. FIRST OF
25:58 - 18, 13 WAS PERSUADED. THIS WAS
26:00 - THE BETTER BUILDING SITE AND
26:03 - DIRECTED DOBBINS, TOO. KEEP
26:05 - GOING ON THIS ON BOATS. WE
26:07 - CONSIDERED TOO LITTLE TOO
26:08 - SMALL. THEY WERE LENGTHEN 10
26:10 - FEET.
26:11 - AND SO THEY BECAME THE 4TH
26:13 - SCHOONERS THAT WERE BUILT HERE.
26:15 - BUT HE ALSO. THEN SUBSEQUENTLY
26:18 - IN FEBRUARY HE WROTE A CONTRACT
26:21 - LETTER TO A NEW YORK
26:21 - SHIPBUILDER UNO BROWN.
26:24 - THAT WAS LIKE A PERFORMANCE
26:26 - PACKET SAID I WANT YOU TO GO
26:28 - TO YEARY AND BUILDING THE LEAST
26:30 - POSSIBLE TIME TO BRIGGS WILL
26:32 - CARRY 20 GUNS OF 32 POUND KAREN
26:34 - AIDS. AND I WANT THEM ON THE
26:37 - SHOWERS DRAFT THAT CAN CARRY
26:39 - THESE GUNS.
26:41 - THE THE FRAME WHICH DICTATES
26:43 - THE SHAPE OF THE SHIP, THE
26:44 - CENTER. WELL, EVEN CHARLIE HAVE
26:46 - TO ISN'T DESIGNED SPECTERS OF
26:48 - PERFORMANCE PECK. AND THAT WAS
26:50 - THE BASIS OF THE LAWRENCE AND
26:52 - THEN AGRA.
26:53 - AND SIDE OF PERRY. PERRY
26:54 - INITIALLY START AT LIKE 11
26:56 - SHIPS BECAUSE HE THE AMELIA WAS
27:01 - LEAKING SO BADLY LEFT HERE IN
27:02 - ERIE AND THEN WON THE SCHOONER.
27:04 - OHIO WAS USED AS A SUPPLY SHIP
27:06 - RUNNING BACK AND FORTH AS BINS
27:08 - COMMAND. AND SO HE WAS NOT
27:10 - PRESENT TO THE BATTLE. BUT THIS
27:12 - IS SENT OFF TO RESUPPLY.
27:14 - THAT WAS IN THE AREA AND THEN
27:15 - SHOWED UP PUT IN A FEW DAYS
27:16 - LATER. BUT PERRY HAD 10 SHIP
27:18 - 6 WHICH HAVE BEEN BUILT AND
27:20 - IN THE AREA BEFORE SCHOONERS
27:21 - THE 2 BIGS AND THEN FOR WORKING
27:24 - FOR IMMERSION VESSELS OF THE
27:25 - SALE HERE BLACKROCK FROM THAT
27:27 - RIVER. AND JIM AND I WAS A
27:29 - SQUASH AND 10.
27:31 - YOU MENTIONED ALL OF HER
27:33 - HAZARD, PERRY, HIS NAME LOOMS
27:34 - LARGER. ALL OF THIS. WHO WAS HE
27:36 - AND WHY WAS HE SELECTED
27:37 - FOR THIS?
27:39 - >>WELL, HE WAS A YOUNG NAVAL
27:40 - OFFICERS PRETTY AMBITIOUS.
27:42 - HE THEN THE NAVY'S SINCE HE
27:43 - WAS 13.
27:45 - >>HE BEEN A MIDSHIPMAN AND THE
27:47 - BARBARY WARS.
27:52 - AND THEN HAD GOTTEN A COMMAND.
27:54 - WELL, THE SCHOONER, THE
27:55 - REVENGE, WHICH WAS LAST ON A
27:57 - REEF. DO THE NAVIGATIONAL
27:59 - ERROR, THE CIVILIAN PILOT PILOT
28:02 - WAS A PORTION MOST TO BLAME
28:03 - FOR THAT. SO PERRY WAS ABLE TO
28:05 - KEEP HIS COMMISSION, BUT THE
28:07 - U.S. NAVY, ANYTIME YOU LOSE A
28:09 - SHIP OR A REASON OTHER THAN
28:11 - HAVING A SHOT OUT FROM UNDER
28:12 - USE. IT'S NOT A GOOD CAREER
28:13 - MOVE.
28:14 - AND WHEN THE WAR CAME IN 18,
28:17 - 13, HE WAS IN CHARGE OF A
28:19 - SQUADRON GUNBOATS IN NEWPORT,
28:21 - WHICH IS WHERE IT'S FROM.
28:23 - I'M NOT LIKELY TO SEE MUCH
28:24 - ACTION. THE PETITION FOR SALT
28:26 - WATER COMMAND WE HAD SO FEW
28:28 - SHIPS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO
28:30 - MORE SENIOR PEOPLE ANYWAY.
28:32 - BUT THE FACT THE LOSS OF ENGINE
28:34 - MIGHT HAVE BEEN HELD AGAINST
28:36 - HIM SOMEWHAT. HE HE APPLIED FOR
28:39 - JOINING SHAUN SO LAKES,
28:40 - FIGURING THAT, WELL, YOU KNOW,
28:42 - THAT'S GOING TO BE NO MEANS
28:44 - WANT TO GO IN, WANT TO GO THE
28:45 - LAKES BECAUSE SAYS VERY REAL
28:46 - PROSPECT. A PRIZE MONEY.
28:48 - WE'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO
28:48 - ABLE TO CAPTURE MERSHON SHIPS.
28:50 - ARE THERE AREN'T ANY THAT IS.
28:52 - BUT SO NOBODY WANTS TO GO THERE
28:54 - AND THEY'RE PROBABLY FAIRLY
28:55 - EASY TO GET A COMMAND THERE.
28:57 - SO WE APPLIED TO CHAUNCEY,
28:58 - WROTE HIM A LETTER AND NOVEMBER
29:00 - AND THE JANUARY TRANSFER RIGHTS
29:02 - BACK AND AND HE HAD WRITTEN THE
29:04 - SECRETARY OF THE NAVY AND AND
29:06 - ASKED HIM TO SEND PERRY UP
29:08 - THERE BECAUSE HE SAID HE
29:09 - RECOGNIZED THAT PERRY HAD SOME
29:11 - ABILITY AND HE HAS SUPERVISED
29:13 - THE CONSTRUCTION IS GUNBOATS
29:14 - SQUADRONS WHO HAD A LITTLE BIT
29:15 - OF THAT INTERFACE OF SHIPYARD.
29:18 - GRAS BALL LOGISTICS. WANT TAKES
29:20 - TO GET THINGS BUILT.
29:22 - AND SO WHEN HE GOT UP TO LAKE
29:24 - ONTARIO, WE JUST SOME ONTO LAKE
29:26 - ERIE AND SAID THIS IS YOUR
29:28 - THEM. AND I WANT FOR THIS JOB.
29:30 - AND I THINK IT'S BECAUSE HE
29:33 - AMBITIOUS AND VOLUNTEERED FOR
29:35 - IT.
29:36 - WAS ALSO NOT A VERY DESIRABLE
29:38 - POSITION BECAUSE THIS OUT AS
29:40 - WILDERNESS BACK
29:43 - YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEY'RE
29:43 - WEIGHING. THERE'S CONSTANT FEAR
29:45 - IN THE ATTACK.
29:49 - WITH CONSTANT FEAR. BRITISH
29:51 - SURPRISE ATTACK. BUT, YOU KNOW,
29:53 - POSITION TO DO SO. WE DON'T
29:55 - KNOW THAT AND SO NUMBER POPULAR
29:59 - PLACE TO BE AND THEN USE A
30:01 - HARDSHIP POST WHO WAS A HARD
30:03 - COLD WINTER.
30:04 - AND THE TROUBLE GETTING
30:06 - SUPPLIES, GETTING FOOD, GETTING
30:07 - EVERYTHING AND IT WAS PRETTY
30:10 - DIFFICULT EFFORT FOR HIM TO TO
30:11 - WORK OUT HERE. NOW TO BUILD A
30:13 - FLEET THE SIZE. THE PAIR IS
30:15 - LOOKING AT. YOU WOULD NEED A
30:16 - LARGE AMOUNT OF RAW MATERIALS
30:17 - WHERE THERE'S ALL AVAILABLE
30:18 - LOCALLY.
30:19 - >>WELL, THE WOOD WAS INSTANTLY
30:21 - AVAILABLE AND UNLIMITED
30:22 - QUANTITY AT THAT TIME OF HIS
30:24 - COUNTRY HAD RICHES OF FAR AS
30:27 - THE PEOPLE COMING FROM. EUROPE
30:28 - CANNOT BELIEVE THEY'VE BEEN
30:29 - SELLING AND AND COMPETING HAVE
30:31 - BEEN COMPETING USES FOR THEIR
30:33 - FARCE FOR A LONG TIME. BUT OVER
30:34 - HERE IT WAS JUST VIRGIN TIMBER
30:37 - THAT. IT WAS SET. A SQUIRREL
30:39 - COULD GO FROM THE EAST COAST OF
30:40 - MISSISSIPPI WITHOUT HITTING
30:41 - GROUND. IF THEY WANT TO SO AND
30:45 - THE TIMBER SELECTION WAS.
30:49 - YEAH, THAT WAS BUILT IN SUCH A
30:50 - HURRY IN THE LAWRENCE WHO IS
30:52 - EMERGENCY WARTIME CONSTRUCTION.
30:53 - WE NEED IT YESTERDAY AS A
30:56 - SELECTION OF TIMBER WAS THE
30:58 - CLOSEST READ THE WORK SITE, THE
30:59 - ONE BEHIND THAT, THE ONE BEHIND
31:01 - THAT, THE ONE BEHIND THAT SO
31:04 - WOULD WAS ON LIMITED
31:05 - AVAILABILITY. BUT THE
31:06 - EVERYTHING ELSE, THOUGH.
31:08 - THAT WAS DIFFICULT IRON FOR
31:11 - FAST THINGS. DOBBINS WAS
31:13 - DRIVING AROUND EVERY PLACE
31:15 - TRYING TO BUY A BARN HINGES AND
31:16 - BUY ANYTHING HE COULD TO KEEP
31:18 - HOUNDED INTO A FASCINATING AND
31:21 - THEY WENT AS FAR AS BELMONT,
31:22 - WHICH IS MIDDLE OF
31:23 - PENNSYLVANIA, A 200 MILES.
31:25 - MARY TRIBE, IRON.
31:31 - BANKERS IN THE HEMP ROPE FOR
31:33 - CONTRACTED FROM PITTSBURGH.
31:36 - SHOT WAS CAST IN PITTSBURGH.
31:38 - THE GUNS WERE EITHER BROUGHT A
31:40 - FEW OVERLAND FROM BUFFALO THAT
31:42 - ORIGINALLY STARTED IN NEW YORK
31:44 - AND THE NAVY YARD. AND THEN
31:45 - A LOT OF THEM WERE CAST IN
31:46 - GEORGETOWN. SO WASHINGTON,
31:48 - D.C., AND BROUGHT UP CANAL
31:51 - SYSTEM IN THE WATERWAYS THERE.
31:54 - BASICALLY EVERYTHING HAD TO
31:56 - COME FROM A LONG DISTANCE OFF
31:57 - EXCEPT WOULD. ROUGHLY THE SIZE
32:00 - NEEDS A CREW. YES, WERE THEY
32:02 - AVAILABLE IN THE AREA WHERE
32:03 - THEY NOW KNOW THE CREW ARE?
32:05 - THAT WAS PERRY'S CONSTANT
32:07 - PROBLEM AND
32:09 - A CONSTANT REFRAIN OF HE'S
32:11 - COMPLAINING ABOUT LACK OF MEN.
32:14 - AND WITH THEM.
32:15 - HE WAS SENT MEN FROM FROM LAKE
32:17 - ONTARIO WILL DREAMS AND DRABS
32:20 - BE SENT WITH SUPPORT OFFICER IN
32:22 - 20 OR 30 MEN WOULD COME.
32:25 - 40 MEN HERE IN 10 HERE AND THEY
32:27 - GRADUALLY BE SENT TO ACCUMULATE
32:29 - HERE AND YOU SIGN THEM AS BEST
32:30 - THEY COULD TO MAKE USE OF THEIR
32:33 - TALENTS AND SHUFFLING THEM
32:34 - AROUND THE MUSCLE OF THE SNOW.
32:36 - THE CREWS PRONE TO THE RINGING
32:38 - WORK ON THE SHIP BECAUSE THAT'S
32:39 - WHAT THEY KNOW HOW TO DO WAS
32:40 - SEEN THEM. THE BUILDERS WERE NO
32:43 - BROWN HAD A CIVILIAN CARPENTERS
32:45 - WHO ARE ENTICED TO COME HERE
32:47 - BY WAYS THAT WE GET NEW
32:53 - AND THEY WERE UNEMPLOYED.
32:54 - NEW YORK LARGELY BECAUSE OF ITS
32:56 - BLOCKADE. SO IT WAS A DOUBLE
32:57 - INCENTIVE TO COME HERE. BUT
33:00 - IS CIVILIAN BUILDING CREW.
33:01 - AND THEN PERRY IS STILL SHORT
33:04 - ON MEN. HE'S RECRUITING SOME
33:06 - LOCAL CITIZENS. SOME PEOPLE
33:07 - WHO ARE IN THE PERSUADE THE
33:09 - MILITIA COMMANDERS TO LET THEM
33:10 - TRANSFER TO THE NAVY IF THEY
33:13 - WISH TO EVENTUALLY APPLIED TO
33:16 - HARRISON FOR FOR SIMILAR HELP
33:18 - FROM THE ARMY AND GOT ABOUT
33:20 - 140 THE ARMY WHAT AFTER YOU
33:23 - SAILED WEST FROM HERE? BUT AND
33:26 - MAYBE 340 U.S. NAVY HAD OF HIS
33:30 - 530 SOMETHING. SO LEAST 2
33:33 - THIRDS AS MEN WERE NAVY BARKLEY
33:35 - HAD A POSITION WHERE ONLY ABOUT
33:36 - A 3RD OF HIS MEMBER ON A B AND
33:39 - THE REST WERE EITHER ARMY YEAR
33:41 - VOLUNTEERS, YOU CANADIAN
33:42 - PROVINCIAL MARINA. VARIOUS
33:44 - SOURCES AND SO.
33:47 - TERRY WAS SHORT HANDED, BUT NOT
33:49 - AS NOT AS BADLY IS NOT AS BAD
33:51 - AS A PARKING LOT. YOU MENTIONED
33:52 - BARCLAY. COULD YOU EXPLAIN TO
33:54 - BARKLEY WAS THE BRITISH IS
33:56 - COUNTERPART THE SAME RANK, SAME
33:58 - AGE? 28. HE WAS ASSIGNED TO
34:01 - LAKE ERIE.
34:03 - BY THE COMMAND OF A LAKE,
34:05 - ONTARIO AND
34:07 - AND BARKLEY. ONLY GOT THE GUY
34:09 - THAT GOT STUCK WITH THE JOB
34:10 - BECAUSE EVERYBODY SENIOR TO HIM
34:12 - AND TURNED IT DOWN. THIS IS A
34:14 - LOOK TO BE TOO FOR LONG
34:18 - SMALL RESOURCE BASE ON THE
34:20 - MEND. BUT SOME HAD TO DO IT.
34:22 - SO BARKLEY GOT SENT AND USE THE
34:25 - BRITISH COMMANDER AS A CITY AND
34:28 - A SMALLER PORTIONS MEN, ROYAL
34:29 - NAVY. SO IT'S VERY IT'S ALMOST
34:33 - AM.
34:34 - THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION TO SAY
34:36 - THAT PERRY DEFEATED THE BRITISH
34:38 - NAVY. HE DEFEATED. A VERY SMALL
34:42 - REMNANT, ARE VERY SMALL OUTPOST
34:45 - OF THE BRITISH NAVY.
34:48 - THAT WAS STUCK OUT HERE IN THE
34:49 - MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
34:53 - THEY PUT UP A HELL OF A FIGHT,
34:54 - TOO. NOW IF YOU VISUALIZE LAKE
34:57 - ERIE ON THE WESTERN AND YOU
34:58 - HAVE. LARGE TARGET BARCLAYS,
35:01 - THERE, WHAT IS THE TARGET WAS
35:02 - AN IMPORTANT.
35:07 - THE BRITISH AND THE CAPTURE
35:09 - DETROIT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
35:10 - WAR THAT ALSO CAPTURED THE 4 OF
35:12 - THE MACKINAW.
35:13 - THAT ALSO TAKEN FOR DEARBORN
35:15 - MICH, WHICH IS NO CHICAGO.
35:17 - SO THE WHOLE NORTHWEST OF
35:19 - FALLEN UNDER BRITISH, AN INDIAN
35:20 - WHO WE THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE
35:23 - A SPRINGBOARD FOR INVASION INTO
35:25 - ONTARIO AND IT TURNED OUT
35:27 - DISASTROUSLY FOR US.
35:29 - AND SO THEY THEY CAPTURE
35:31 - DETROIT. AND
35:34 - SO THEY'RE IN A POSITION TO
35:35 - THREATEN OHIO AND BUT THEY
35:39 - REALLY WEREN'T IN A POSITION
35:40 - TO TO REALLY INVADE IN ANY
35:43 - STRENGTH. DIDN'T HAVE THE
35:44 - MANPOWER TO DO IT. THEY'RE JUST
35:46 - INTENT ON. HANG ON TO WHAT THE
35:47 - HEAD. BUT IT WOULD INCLUDE A
35:49 - DETROIT WAS INCLUDING MICHIGAN
35:51 - AND SO TO GET THAT BACK, WE HAD
35:54 - TRIED TO.
35:56 - SENDING ARMY IN WHEN THE GROUND
35:59 - IS FROZEN AND YOU COULD A MARCH
36:02 - PRETTY WELL AND THEY'VE BEEN
36:04 - DEFEATED. THE RIVER RAISIN NOW
36:07 - WITH SOME ROLE, MICHIGAN.
36:09 - AND THAT WAS A PRETTY DISASTER
36:11 - SETBACK FOR US. AND AFTER THAT
36:13 - DEFEAT, WE DECIDED THE SEARCH
36:15 - AREA WAR DECIDED WE'RE GOING OR
36:16 - NOT TO ATTEMPT ANY MORE TO
36:18 - RECAPTURE DETROIT UNTIL WE HAVE
36:21 - COMMAND OF THE LAKE.
36:23 - SO WE CAN MOVE TROOPS THAT WERE
36:24 - ABOUT TO GET SHOT. NO WOODS
36:26 - WITH THE INDIANS. WE GET
36:27 - SUPPLIES. WHAT ABOUT WATER?
36:29 - WE HAVE CONTROL LAKE. WHAT WE
36:30 - CAN SAY ABOUT LANDING AND THEN
36:32 - FOR THE U.S. LANDING AND TAKING
36:34 - BACK IN TROY. AND SO THAT WAS
36:36 - THE STRATEGIC GOALS TO
36:38 - RECAPTURE DETROIT. AND
36:43 - GETTING COME AND GO LIKE THE
36:45 - FEELING THAT WHATEVER BRITISH
36:46 - SHIPS WERE THERE. SO YOU CAN
36:48 - MOVEMENT SUPPLIES YOURSELF AND
36:49 - DENY THEM THE ABILITY TO DO SO.
36:52 - ALL OVER HAZARD. PERRY HAS
36:53 - SHIPS. HE HAS MEN. WHAT'S HIS
36:56 - OBJECTIVE WAS EJECTED IS TO TO
36:59 - GO SEEK OUT. AND CAPTURE,
37:01 - DESTROY THE BRITISH SQUADRON.
37:04 - AND HE'S READY TO DO SO BY
37:06 - AUGUST. AND THE SALES DOWN TO
37:09 - PUT IN BAY USE AS HIS BASE OF
37:12 - OPERATIONS IS A GOOD ANCHORAGE.
37:14 - AND HE SAILED OUT OF. THERE ARE
37:16 - A LOT. HE SAILED OUT FOR 2,
37:17 - 3 DAYS. THE TIME THE RECORD
37:19 - LATER UP AROUND DETROIT IN CELL
37:21 - UP THE RIVER BECAUSE SAID NO
37:22 - CHARTS OF A LOT OF SHOALS.
37:24 - THE BRITISH AT GUN EMPLACEMENTS
37:26 - ON THE LAND IS JUST BAD
37:27 - BUSINESS TO GET IN THERE.
37:28 - BUT HE KEPT ON WHAT THEY'RE
37:29 - DOING.
37:31 - AND THEY'RE BASICALLY BLOCKADED
37:32 - IN BECAUSE HE HAS A STRONGER
37:34 - SQUAD ARE NOW.
37:35 - AND STILL AHEAD, THE DETROIT
37:37 - BUILT COMPLETED. THEY WERE
37:38 - BUILDING THE SHIP, WHICH WAS
37:39 - LARGEST, THE LARGEST ONE.
37:41 - THE LAKE. AND WHEN THEY HAVE
37:43 - THAT COMPLETED THE VENTS, ONE
37:45 - BARKLEY DECIDED HE COULD COME
37:46 - OUT TO FIGHT NEXT. YOU HAVE
37:47 - A CHOICE. BECAUSE BY THEN
37:50 - THEY'RE RUNNING OUT OF WHEN
37:53 - BARKLEY CAME OUT TO FIGHT.
37:55 - IT WAS NOT WITH ANY SENSE
37:59 - OF UBER SAYS OUT OF THE SENSE
38:00 - OF IMPENDING VICTORY. HE COMES
38:03 - OUT WITH A SQUADRON SPENT ON
38:04 - HALF RATIONS FOR WEEK. THEY
38:07 - HAVE FRACTIONS FOR ONE MORE
38:08 - WEEK.
38:09 - AND THEN THEY'RE OUT. AND SO.
38:12 - IT
38:15 - YOU'RE READY OR NOT. WE'VE GOT
38:15 - TO DO THIS. LET'S GET IT OVER
38:17 - WITH. IN YOUR BOOK. YOU
38:18 - DESCRIBE THE BATTLE OF LAKE
38:20 - ERIE, US, THE HUNGRY FIGHTING
38:21 - THE SEC.
38:22 - YES, BECAUSE PERRY HAD A LOT OF
38:24 - PROM AND HIS SQUADRON FEVER
38:26 - AND THIS IN TURN. AND WE DON'T
38:28 - KNOW WHETHER THERE'S SOME
38:30 - THOUGHT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
38:30 - MALARIAL MOSQUITOES ON LAKE
38:32 - ERIE AT THAT TIME MIGHT HAVE
38:33 - BEEN THE MALARIA. ALSO MIGHT
38:36 - HAVE BEEN THE DYSENTERY MIGHT
38:38 - HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATION OF THE
38:39 - WATER
38:42 - BASES. SEWAGE WAS GOING THE
38:43 - SAME ONE OF THE OFFICIAL
38:44 - BUCKETS TO TRENT CRUMP.
38:46 - SEE THE LAKES WERE ON SALT
38:49 - WATER. THEY HAD TO CARRY THE
38:51 - WATER ON SHIPS. VERY TIGHTLY
38:53 - RATIONED. HERE ARE THE LAKES.
38:55 - IT WAS JUST ON THE LIMITED
38:56 - SUPPLIES OF FRESH WATER OVER
38:58 - SIDE.
38:59 - BUT PROBABLY WERE SUBJECT TO
39:01 - SOME LEVEL OF CONTAMINATION AS
39:02 - WELL THAT NO KNOWLEDGE OF
39:03 - BACTERIA.
39:06 - SO WE HAD AS MANY AS A 3RD OF
39:08 - THE SQUAD ON THE SICK LIST.
39:09 - ANY TIME.
39:11 - PEOPLE ARE GRADUALLY GETTING
39:13 - ACCLIMATED TO IT. AND
39:14 - DEVELOPING SOME IMMUNITY
39:16 - BECAUSE THE SICK LIST WAS ONLY
39:18 - ABOUT MAY 15, 20% OF THE MEN
39:21 - BY THE BY THE DAY BEFORE THE
39:22 - BATTLE. BUT STILL.
39:24 - YOU KNOW, GREAT. YOU FELT THAT
39:26 - YOU HAD THE FLU HERE BACK TO
39:27 - WORK. THESE GUYS HAVE THESE
39:29 - TRASH FOR A WEEK OR 10 DAYS
39:31 - WITH FEVER AND STAGGER UP AND
39:33 - WORK FOR A WEEK OR 2 AND THEN
39:34 - MAYBE A CYCLE AROUND AGAIN.
39:37 - SO PRETTY PRETTY UNHEALTHY.
39:38 - PRETTY UNHAPPY GAME THAT WAY.
39:40 - WE HAVE ALL OF HER HAZARD.
39:41 - PERRY'S AMERICAN SQUADRON
39:43 - MOVING TOWARD BARCLAYS, BRITISH
39:45 - SQUADRON. TAKE US TO THE BATTLE
39:47 - OF LAKE ERIE. WELL, ACTUALLY,
39:49 - IT STARTED SO THE NIGHT BEFORE
39:50 - WHEN BARKLEY HOPING TO GET INTO
39:52 - THE ISLANDS AND MAYBE CATCH
39:53 - PERIOD ON AT ANCHOR WHERE HE
39:56 - COULD MAYBE SWARM ON BOARD
39:57 - BOARD SPORT BARKLEY HAD A LOT
40:00 - OF SOLDIERS AND MORE MEN THAN
40:02 - PERRY. AND SO HE WAS HOPING
40:04 - TO MAYBE KERRY ABORTING ACTION,
40:06 - BUT THE WIND WAS SO LIGHT HE
40:08 - DIDN'T GET THERE. HE SAILED
40:09 - OVERNIGHT BUT ONLY COVERED
40:10 - ABOUT HALF OF TO 30 MILES FROM
40:13 - DETROIT. HIS SHIPS ARE ABOUT 10
40:15 - MILES OFF UNDECIDED ON.
40:18 - PERRY'S GOT TO GET OUT OF THE
40:19 - ANCHORAGE PUT IN THE DAY WITH
40:22 - THE WIND DIRECTION AT THAT
40:23 - TIME, BARKLEY COULD SAIL ACROSS
40:26 - LIKE 90 DEGREES TO HIM. COME ON
40:28 - THE SIDE. YOU CAN SAIL COURSE
40:30 - AND MAINTAIN A STRAIGHT
40:31 - HEADING. MAYBE HE'S ONLY DOING
40:33 - 2 KNOTS, BUT THAT SOME THINGS
40:35 - IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. PERRY
40:37 - CAN'T YOU CAN'T SELL OUT
40:40 - DIRECTLY INTO THE WINDIEST
40:41 - ATTACK BACK AND FORTH,
40:44 - CRISSCROSSING. AND THE SHIPS
40:46 - ARE BLOCKING EACH OTHER'S WHEN
40:47 - THEY'RE BLOCKING EACH OTHER'S
40:48 - WAY. IT'S TAKEN 4 HOURS TO GET
40:51 - OUT OF THE HARBOR IS NOT OUT
40:52 - YET. AND HE SEES A PARK IS
40:55 - GETTING CLOSER FOR HOURS, EVEN
40:56 - INTO KNOTS FOR HOURS IS GOING
40:58 - TO BE 8 MILES. HE'S A 10 MILES
41:00 - AWAY AS WE GET TO MILES NOW.
41:03 - IT'S LIKE ANOTHER HALF HOUR IS
41:05 - GOING TO BE WITH THEM. I WAS
41:05 - GOING TO BE RANGE. I HAVE TO
41:07 - DO SOMETHING.
41:09 - SO PERRY DECIDES THAT HE WILL
41:10 - FIGHT THEM THAT DAY, EVEN IF HE
41:12 - HAS TO ACCEPT THE LEAGUE AGE
41:14 - DOWN, ONE'S POSITION. HE'S GOT
41:16 - TO GET A LINE SOMEHOW.
41:18 - AND IT GIVES THE ORDER TO GO
41:20 - DOWN WIND OF SNAKE ISLAND, THE
41:22 - OUTERMOST PART OF THE HARBOR.
41:24 - AND THAT WOULD BE A TIGHT SPOT
41:26 - BECAUSE HE'S KIND OF HARD UP
41:27 - AGAINST A LAND. AND THERE ISN'T
41:29 - MUCH ROOM TO MANEUVER.
41:37 - BECAUSE THE WIND I WAS JUST
41:38 - THEN POOF, GONE COMPLETELY
41:41 - SHE'S SET. SALES FLAT. 5.10,
41:45 - MINUTES LATER COMES BACK.
41:47 - COMES BACK FROM 90 DEGREES.
41:48 - DIFFERENT FROM THE SOUTHEAST.
41:49 - NOW HE'S GOT THE WIND BEHIND
41:50 - HIM. WE'LL SHOW HARBOR RIGHT
41:53 - OVER TO THE BRITISH BARKLEY
41:54 - HAS A WINS FACE. HE HAS TO.
41:58 - FALL OFF ON ONE TAC OR THE
41:59 - OTHER. HE CHOOSES TO GO OFF ON
42:02 - THE POOR TACK HEADING WEST
42:04 - BECAUSE THE 30 MILES PER HOUR
42:05 - AND THAT ROOM THAT ONE. AND SO
42:07 - NOW BECOME SORT OF AN
42:08 - OVERTAKING SITUATION BECAUSE
42:10 - EVEN THOUGH BARKLEY. HE WANTS
42:13 - TO GET THIS OVER WITH
42:16 - BUT HIS SHIPS ARE GOING TO FORM
42:17 - A COMPAQ LINE.
42:19 - AND IN ORDER TO HAVE ANY
42:20 - STEERING CONTROL, ALL YOU HAVE
42:22 - TO HAVE SOME WATER MOVING PAST
42:23 - THE RIDER. SO HE'S MANEUVERING
42:25 - HIS SHIPS TO SAIL SLOWLY.
42:27 - BUT I GOT TO DO. BUT I'M NOT.
42:29 - AND SO THEY'RE DOING NOT AWAY
42:31 - FROM IT. AND PERRY'S OVER
42:32 - TAKING MAYBE 2 OR 3. SO THE
42:35 - NET DIFFERENCE. IT MAY BE ABOUT
42:38 - TO.
42:40 - THE 3 NOT BREEZE PATIENTS,
42:42 - MAZEN, 3 KNOTS.
42:44 - BARCLAYS DO WANT TO WASTE.
42:45 - IT TAKES ABOUT 2 HOURS. TO
42:47 - CLOSE THE RANGE.
42:49 - AND IN THIS LONG STERN CHASE,
42:52 - IT'S CALLED FROM THE STERN.
42:53 - HE SAYS TRY TO CATCH UP AN
42:55 - OVERHAUL. BARCLAYS LINE.
42:58 - PERRY'S GOT A PROBLEM BECAUSE
42:59 - IS SO SUCH DIFFERENT SAILING
43:01 - ABILITIES AMONG THE SHIPS.
43:04 - A COUPLE OF THE SCHOONERS WERE
43:06 - BUILT TO BE FAST. SHIPS ARE
43:08 - BILL SHARP HALLS. PROPORTIONS
43:10 - OF BIG THEY'RE PRETTY QUICK,
43:12 - BUT OTHERS WERE CONVERGING
43:14 - MERCHANT VESSELS EMPHASIZING
43:15 - CARRYING CAPACITY CARGO
43:18 - CAPACITY THERE. HEAVY HALLS.
43:20 - THEY'RE NOT. THEY'RE PRETTY
43:22 - BLOCK FOR NOT FAST SHIPS.
43:24 - AND A LIGHT THEIR DAY LIKE THIS
43:26 - WITH LIGHT WINDS SUMMER DAY.
43:29 - VERY OFTEN THE WIND ALOFT IS
43:30 - MUCH, MUCH STRONGER. THE WIND
43:32 - AT THE SURFACE LEVEL.
43:34 - SO THE THE NIGHT AND ALARMS AND
43:37 - THESE TALL RIGS AND THEY CAN
43:39 - CATCH A FAIR AMOUNT OF WIND IN
43:41 - THE UPPER SALES. BUT THE SMALL
43:43 - MUSCLES WAS MAYBE ONLY 50, 60
43:45 - FEET OFF THE WATER. WE'VE GOT
43:47 - MUCH LESS WIND. SO THE
43:48 - PRACTICAL EFFECT IS THAT
43:50 - PERRY'S LINES GETTING HORRIBLY
43:52 - STRONG. NOW, 4 OF ITS VESSELS
43:54 - THAT HAVE VERY HEAVY GUNS ON
43:55 - THEM BECAUSE IS SO ROOM ON
43:57 - THESE GUNBOATS, WE'RE GOING TO
43:59 - CARRY ONE GUN, THIS ORDER ROOM
44:00 - FOR. LET'S MAKE IT AS HEAVY
44:03 - AS WE CAN CARRY JUST PHYSICAL
44:05 - SHAPE. SOME PERRY HAS SOME 24
44:07 - POUNDS LONG GUNS IS 32 POUND
44:09 - LONG GUNS WHICH ARE MORE SHOP.
44:12 - BUT HE'S GOT THEM ON VESSELS
44:13 - ARE MORE THAN 2 MILES US TURNED
44:15 - AROUND A RANGE. THEY HAVEN'T
44:17 - CLOSED OUT.
44:19 - AND SO WHEN HE GETS WITHIN
44:21 - RANGE IS A TROY, IT. HAS A LOT
44:24 - OF LONG GUNS WHICH ARE MIX
44:26 - CALIBERS, BUT 18 24 POUNDS.
44:29 - AND SO INITIALLY, EVEN THOUGH
44:31 - ON A SQUADRON BASES, HE'S NOW
44:34 - GONE.
44:36 - RIGHT IN THIS IN THIS WORK
44:37 - COUNTS SHIP TO SHIP WHO THESE
44:39 - 2 SHIPS CLOSE AGAIN, THE
44:41 - BRITISH HAVE A TEMPORARY
44:43 - ADVANTAGE HERE. AND PIERRE
44:45 - REALIZES THAT WITH THE THE WAY
44:48 - THESE SHIPS ARE CONVERGING
44:49 - SLOWLY THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE
44:52 - TO LAW. HE'S BEEN A REALLY SHOT
44:54 - UP.
44:55 - AND SO WE HAS ESTIMATED CHOICE
44:57 - HAS 2 CHOICES
44:59 - WE CAN EITHER. AND WHAT MOST
45:01 - COMMANDERS WERE DONE ALMOST
45:02 - CERTAINLY WITH CHAUNCEY WOODEN
45:03 - IS WOULD HAVE HAULED TO
45:05 - WINDWARD OPEN THE RANGE OUT
45:10 - WOULD MAYBE TACK BACK.
45:13 - TURNED AROUND SAIL BACK TO THE
45:15 - GUN, THOUGH, SAY PAST WHAT
45:16 - WHOLE LOT TRYING TO CONSOLIDATE
45:18 - HIS STRENGTH. SO YOU CAN
45:20 - CONCENTRATE ITS FIRE POWER
45:21 - LATER IN THE DAY. THE OTHER
45:24 - CHOICE HE TAKES. IS A VERY,
45:26 - VERY RISKY ONE.
45:28 - AND THAT'S TO MAKE IT DOWN WHEN
45:30 - RIGHT TURN. AND TO SAIL RIGHT
45:33 - AT HIM. HE'S GOT THE WIND
45:35 - BEHIND THEM. DOLLARS ON AND
45:37 - RUNNING HERE.
45:39 - IS SUBJECTING HIMSELF TO RAKING
45:41 - FIRE WHERE THEY CAN FIRE DOWN
45:43 - THE LENGTH OF HIS DECK AND YOU
45:44 - CAN'T SHOOT BACK.
45:46 - BUT THE IDEA IS THAT IF I CAN
45:48 - JUST CLOSE, IF I CAN NOT GET
45:50 - HIT TOO BADLY, IF I CAN ENDURE
45:52 - THIS FOR LIKE 15, 20 MINUTES,
45:54 - WE'LL GET INTO RANGE WHERE THE
45:56 - SHORT KAREN AIDS, WHICH PRO
45:59 - 32 POUND BALL, BUT ONLY ABOUT A
46:01 - HALF MILE. BUT WE CAN GET DOWN
46:03 - THERE CLOSE ENOUGH TO USE MY
46:05 - KAREN AIDS. I'VE GOT HIM.
46:08 - THAT'S SUCH HEAVY FIRE POWER
46:10 - AND THE SHORING BATTERY.
46:11 - THE WE'RE GOING TO CLOBBER THEM
46:13 - AND THAT'S HIS THINKING.
46:16 - ANY PROCEEDS OR THAT TURN?
46:19 - AND THE 2 SMALL FAST SCHOONERS
46:21 - THERE ON THE SCORPION GOING
46:23 - WITH THEM.
46:24 - THE BRING CALEDONIA IS FAIRLY
46:26 - SLOW, BUT SHE GOES WITH THEM
46:28 - AND STARTS THE DOW AND THE
46:30 - NEWER. AND THEN AGRIBUSINESS
46:34 - NAGRA HANGS BACK.
46:35 - WE VERY DELIBERATELY. SO HE'S
46:37 - EVEN BACKED HIS TOP SOUL TO BE
46:39 - TO CATCH WIND AND PUT THE
46:41 - BRAKES ON.
46:43 - AND SO CAPTAIN THAT GOOD TO NOT
46:45 - BACK HIM UP. WELL, WHY IS THIS?
46:49 - JESSE DUNCAN ELLIOTT HAVE BEEN
46:51 - DECORATED FOR HEROISM IN
46:52 - ACTION. THE FLOOR. IT'S NOT
46:54 - TOO LIKELY.
46:56 - AND I DON'T THINK YOU LOST HIS
46:58 - NERVE. I THINK I THINK HE JUDGE
47:02 - THE PERRY WAS MAKING A
47:03 - CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE.
47:05 - I WAS ABOUT TO FALL INTO IT.
47:07 - I THINK THIS WAS
47:07 - INSUBORDINATION RATHER THAN
47:10 - COWARDICE. AND IT TO HIM.
47:17 - SO WHAT HAPPENS PERRY GETS DOWN
47:19 - THERE. HE CLOSES THE RANGE.
47:23 - AND I BELIEVE THE WINDOWS DOT.
47:25 - I THINK WE'RE JUST THE ELLIOT
47:27 - IS THINKING IS WHAT HAPPENS.
47:28 - IT SAYS THAT AFTERNOON. NOW,
47:30 - HOT DAY, THE WIND IS DYING AND
47:33 - HE FEELS IS PROBABLY IS
47:34 - LESSENING AND PROBABLY ELLIOTT
47:37 - IS THE SCENE AND WILL RECOGNIZE
47:39 - THAT. AND PERRY TUESDAY, THE
47:41 - THINKING A LITTLE WAS THAT.
47:43 - THIS BREEZE, IT'S GUY FOR A
47:46 - FEW HOURS AND THE EARLY
47:48 - AFTERNOON HOTTEST PART OF THE
47:49 - DAY. AND IF I GET DOWN THERE
47:51 - AND IF I GET HALFWAY IN.
47:53 - AND THE WIND SALON, GRANGE,
47:56 - WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? YES,
47:58 - SHOT THE BOY SPLINTERS.
48:00 - USE THE SWEEPS THE YOURS, BUT
48:02 - THAT'S PRETTY SLOW. PRETTY
48:03 - CUMBERSOME IT'S.
48:08 - THAT'S THAT'S THE REAL RISK
48:09 - PERRY IS TAKING. IS THAT TRYING
48:11 - TO ADVANCE ON WHEN THE WINDS
48:13 - DYING AT THE SAME TIME PERRY
48:16 - GETS THERE, HE GETS THERE IN
48:17 - TIME BEFORE THE WIND DIES.
48:18 - HE GETS INTO SHORT RANGE.
48:20 - SHE'S ABLE TO FIGHT THE DETROIT
48:21 - WITH KAREN AIDS. SO IF ELLIOTT
48:23 - HAD GONE IN AND SUPPORT HIS
48:25 - COMMANDER.
48:26 - I THINK THE NAG OR GOT THERE
48:28 - TOO. AND THE BATTLE OVER AND
48:29 - OVER HALF THE TIME WE HAVE FOR
48:30 - LOSSES. BECAUSE NEITHER THE
48:33 - LAWRENCE TOGETHER HAD THIS
48:35 - MASSIVE FIREPOWER OF KAREN AGE.
48:37 - 32 POUND KAREN AIDS.
48:39 - BUT AS IT IS, AND AGRA IS
48:40 - HANGING BACK AT THE EXTREME
48:42 - LIMIT OF LONG GUN RANGE ABOUT
48:43 - A MILE. SO HE'S WON 12 POUNDER.
48:46 - THERE'S 2.12 POUNDERS TO 12.
48:48 - HOW LONG GUNS? WELL, YOU COULD
48:50 - SAY THAT HE WAS ENGAGED THE
48:51 - WHOLE TIME.
48:52 - BUT HIS FIRING A SHOT NOW AND
48:53 - THEN THE EXTREME LIMIT OF RANGE
48:55 - AND MAYBE SOME ARE HITTING THE
48:56 - MOST AREN'T. AND SO THE
48:59 - MEANTIME, THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE.
49:01 - SEASON THAT I WAS TOO FAR AWAY
49:03 - FOR HER TO HIT. SO SHE CLOSE
49:05 - UP FOR THE DETROIT. THE
49:07 - SUPPORTER COMMANDER.
49:10 - AND SO THE THE CREAM, CHARLOTTE
49:12 - AND DETROIT BETWEEN THE 2 OF
49:13 - THEM. NOW HAVE QUITE A BIT OF
49:15 - FIRE POWER OVER THE LONG ARMS.
49:18 - AND SO EVEN THOUGH PERRY HAS A
49:19 - STRONGER SQUADRON, EVEN THOUGH
49:21 - HE HAS MORE FIREPOWER, HIS
49:23 - DISTRIBUTION OF SUCH.
49:25 - THAT HE'S PUT HIMSELF. HE'S
49:26 - JUMPED IN A YOU CAN SELL MOST
49:30 - RASHLY AND TO THE FRONT OF THIS
49:32 - ACTION.
49:33 - AND HE'S AT HIS COMMANDER, HIS
49:35 - SECOND IN COMMAND TO NOT
49:37 - SUPPORT HIM. AND SO NOW HE'S IN
49:38 - A POSITION WHERE HE IS FACING
49:41 - THE FIREPOWER OF LOCAL FIRE
49:43 - POWER OF 2. THE 2 VESSELS LAST
49:47 - TURNING INTO A SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
49:49 - BECAUSE IT'S JUST A SHOT AT
49:52 - TURNING INTO A SHATTERED RACK.
49:54 - AND THE MEN ARE JUST GETTING
49:56 - WIPED OUT. 2 SPLENDOR DAMAGE
49:58 - TO DISMEMBERMENT.
50:01 - A NAVAL BATTLE LIKE THIS.
50:03 - IT RANGES OF 100 TO 200 YARDS.
50:05 - THIS IS CAN'T MISS RAIN JUST
50:07 - LIKE HERE. THE FAR WALL OF
50:08 - BUILDING.
50:09 - AND HERE GOT TIGHTLY PACKED
50:11 - MASSES OF MEN, WOODEN
50:13 - STRUCTURE. CAN'T MISS RANGE.
50:15 - YOU HAVE PRETTY HIGH, BUT YOUR
50:16 - BILL.
50:17 - WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUT THE STORY
50:19 - IS THE COURAGE OF THE LAWRENCES
50:21 - CREW. MOST OF THE TIME OF WHEN
50:23 - THESE NAPOLEONIC ERA NAVAL
50:25 - BATTLES, IT WAS A ROUGH SET OF
50:27 - STATISTICS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE
50:29 - ENGAGED. AND THE LOSSES.
50:34 - BATTLE AFTER BATTLE AFTER
50:35 - BATTLE, HE GET SOMEWHERE IN THE
50:36 - UPPER 20'S, LOW 30'S. YOU GET
50:38 - ABOUT A 3RD OF THE CREW
50:39 - BLEEDING FROM SOMEWHERE.
50:41 - AND THERE ARE SOME GIVE UP
50:42 - THIS. IT START TO LOOK
50:43 - HOPELESS. YOUR RATE OF FIRE IS
50:45 - GOING DOWN YOUR ABILITY TO TO
50:47 - DO DO A DAMAGE IS GOING DOWN
50:49 - AND SOMEWHERE ALONG THAT THAT
50:51 - CASUALTIES UP TO ABOUT A 3RD
50:54 - THAT WOULD BE WHERE CREW WOULD
50:55 - DEMAND TO STRIKE THEIR COLORS
50:57 - TO SURRENDER. AND IT WAS NOT
50:59 - CONSIDERED DISARM WILL TO DO
51:00 - SO. IF YOU TRIED HARD, YOU DO
51:01 - YOUR BEST YOU TO THE BEATING
51:03 - AND THIS ISN'T GOING WELL AND
51:05 - NO PACK IT IN BEFORE YOU JUST
51:07 - EVERYBODY'S DEAD. ON THE
51:08 - LAWRENCE. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
51:10 - THE LAWRENCE A FIGHT. FOR 2
51:12 - HOURS. THEY ONLY HAD 103 LIST
51:16 - IS EFFECTIVE IN THE CREW THAT
51:17 - MORNING WITH THE SICK LIST.
51:18 - NOW WE DO HOW MANY THIS
51:19 - AGREEMENT ON BOARD SOME OF THE
51:22 - REALLY SICK WERE KEPT. THE
51:23 - SHORT PUT IN THE INTENSE.
51:25 - BUT SOME OF THE SEC ON BOARD,
51:27 - THEY MIGHT DRAG THEMSELVES UP
51:28 - TO HELP.
51:29 - SO OUT OF 103 OUT OF 135 IN THE
51:32 - CRUELEST, THERE'S MAYBE 11520
51:36 - FOUGHT THAT
51:38 - WELL, AT THE END OF 2 HOURS,
51:40 - THERE'S 61 DEAD OR 61 WOUNDED.
51:42 - AND 2.22, DEAD AND 16 WOUNDED.
51:46 - THAT'S 83. 100 SMALL CHANGE.
51:50 - THAT'S A WHOPPING COUNCIL TO
51:51 - ASSESS OVER 70%. AND THIS CREWS
51:55 - NOT PACKED IN. THEY'RE STILL
51:57 - STANDING BY THEIR COMMANDER.
51:59 - BUT THEN PERRY IS OUT OF
52:01 - OPTIONS BECAUSE HE'S GOT ALMOST
52:03 - NO WIND TO MOVE.
52:06 - IS RINGING IS SHOT TO PIECES.
52:07 - THE MASK HAVEN'T FALLEN OVER
52:08 - SIMPLY BECAUSE HE'S SO LITTLE
52:10 - ROCK AND ROLL MOTION IS NOTHING
52:11 - THEY CAN FALL OVER THE MASTER
52:13 - SPLINTERED. ALL RINGS. CUT
52:14 - AWAY. THIS 200 SPLENDOR HOLES
52:17 - IN THE U.S. BANK OR SALE.
52:19 - HIS LAST GUN ON THE STARBOARD
52:21 - SIDE GETS KNOCKED OUT OF ACTION
52:23 - TO 30 IN THE AFTERNOON. HE HAS
52:25 - NOTHING HE CAN FIGHT WITH.
52:27 - WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO?
52:32 - ONE STUDENT?
52:35 - DOES NOT THINK ABOUT A LAW.
52:38 - BECAUSE THESE PHENOMENA LUCKY.
52:40 - BRAVE. YES, CURRENTLY BRAVE.
52:43 - BUT LUCKY BECAUSE THE WIND
52:44 - COMES BACK FROM THE SOUTHEAST
52:47 - AND THIS LIST BREEZE COMES
52:48 - RUSHING IN.
52:50 - AND BUILD STRONGER THAN IT WAS
52:51 - BEFORE BLOWS THE SMOKE AWAY.
52:53 - AND THE BRITISH SHIP START
52:54 - MOVING WITH THE BREEZE.
52:55 - LAWRENCE IS SO BADLY DAMAGE
52:57 - TO SPAWN SO LAST AND SO SHE'S
52:59 - DROPPING BACK. THE RAIN STARTS
53:02 - OPENING OUT. EVERYBODY IS JUST
53:03 - TRYING CATCH YOUR BREATH AND
53:04 - FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON.
53:06 - THERE'S VERY LITTLE VISIBILITY
53:07 - FOR A WHILE BECAUSE OF THE PARK
53:09 - POWER SMOKING THIS DENSE
53:12 - ATMOSPHERES IT'S BEEN PRETTY
53:14 - HARD TO SAFER BET. AND THEN
53:17 - JUST THEN.
53:20 - PERRY LOOKS AROUND THE SEASON
53:21 - EITHER SELLING PAST.
53:24 - HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT'S GOING
53:25 - TO DO NEXT. YOU KNOW, HE'S BEEN
53:26 - USELESS SO FAR. AS WE DETERMINE
53:28 - TO TRANSFER.
53:31 - WE NEED TO GET LUCKY HERE.
53:33 - BECAUSE HE STILL HAS BOTH THAT
53:34 - USABLE.
53:36 - OTHER SHIPS OR BOATS OR SO SHOT
53:37 - UP THE CAN BOATS AFTERWARDS.
53:40 - BUT HE'S STILL GOT A BOAT THAT
53:41 - EVEN THOSE GOT A HOLE IN IT.
53:43 - IT'S STILL USABLE BEEN TELLING
53:45 - ALONGSIDE OF THE OUT PORT SIDE.
53:47 - AND SO HE JUMPS IN THE 4 MEN.
53:50 - THEY ROLL LIKE HELL TO GET OVER
53:51 - THE NIAGARA CONGRESS CARING
53:53 - SETTING MORE SALE. SHE IS
53:55 - MOVING QUICKLY AND THESE PEOPLE
53:56 - HAVE TO GO LIKE HELL TO CATCH
53:58 - UP. WE ALSO LIKE HELL BECAUSE
54:00 - THE BRITISH FIGURE OUT WHAT'S
54:01 - GOING ON. THE SHIP FIRE THE
54:02 - BOAT. EVERYBODY IN THE BOWS
54:05 - TRENCH WITH A SPLASH IN NEARBY
54:06 - MISSES. BUT PERRY MAKES OVER.
54:11 - NOW. HE DIDN'T MAKE IT OVER.
54:14 - THANKS FOR SECOND. WHAT'S HIS
54:15 - PLACE IN HISTORY
54:18 - BRASH YOUNG COMMANDER IN
54:20 - PICTURES, LEE JUMPS AND THE
54:21 - HEAD OF THE REST OF THE
54:22 - SQUADRON GETS HIS MEN
54:23 - SLAUGHTERED PANICS. FLEAS IS
54:26 - SHIPPED TO SAVE HIS OWN SKIN
54:28 - AND DIES AND DISGRACE FLEEING
54:30 - THE SCENE. A SMALL BOAT TRY
54:32 - SAME SELF. LET'S LOOK LIKE.
54:36 - BUT IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
54:38 - BECAUSE THE RISE IN THE
54:39 - AGGREGATE, SOME BOARD, WE DON'T
54:41 - KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT SAID
54:43 - BETWEEN HIM AND ELLIOTT.
54:45 - BUT IN THE ELIOT VOLUNTEERS,
54:47 - TOO, GO BRING UP THE LYING ON
54:49 - BOATS. ABSOLUTELY. SUPER FOR
54:51 - SATURN. THIS IS SOUTHEAST WINDS
54:53 - WILL REACH THEM FIRST. WE'RE
54:55 - MOVING ALONG AND THEY'RE
54:56 - ALREADY CLOSING UP AND THEY'RE
54:57 - ALREADY IN RANGE. BUT I THINK
54:59 - ELIOT JUST DOESN'T WANT TO BE
55:00 - IN THE SAME DECK WITH PERRY.
55:02 - AND THIS EMBARRASSING
55:03 - SITUATION. SO REALLY IT GOES
55:05 - OFF IN THE BOAT. AND PERRY THEN
55:07 - ORDERS ANOTHER DOWNWIND, RIGHT?
55:09 - TURN. BUT THIS TIME IT'S WITH
55:12 - A SHIP THAT IS ALMOST AND
55:14 - DAMAGED A GUNSHIP SERVE AS A
55:15 - VERY BADLY DAMAGED. THE SALES
55:18 - ACROSS THE BRITISH LINE RIGHT
55:19 - ACROSS THE BOW AND JUST POURS A
55:21 - DOUBLE SHOT, A BROADSIDE DOWN
55:23 - THEIR DEC. THAT'S A A BAG GRAPE
55:25 - ON TOP OF THE BALL.
55:27 - AND SO THE SPACE ABOUT MAYBE 6,
55:29 - 8 SECONDS OVER 600 POUNDS OF
55:31 - HOT METAL GO ROARING DOWN THEIR
55:34 - AND AT THIS TIME, THE QUEEN
55:35 - CHARLOTTE AND DETROIT HAVE THE
55:37 - CATASTROPHE OF HAVING A
55:38 - COLLISION. THE DETROIT SEASON
55:40 - AG RECOVERING WANTS TO TURN
55:41 - AWAY
55:42 - AND BOTH SHIPS ARE SO BADLY
55:44 - DAMAGED ALOFT IN THE RIGGING,
55:45 - THE NOT VERY MANEUVERABLE AND
55:47 - THE QUEEN. CHARLOTTE ENDS UP
55:48 - RUNNING UP AND RUNNING ABOUT
55:50 - SPREAD INTO THE DETROIT'S
55:51 - RIGGING. WELL, IT IS A MASTER.
55:53 - THE LOCK. THEY CAN'T MOVE OR
55:56 - THAT BOTH HELPLESS OF THE
55:57 - BREAK, BUT THE SAME ROADSIDE
55:59 - AND PERRY THEN ROUNDS UP, PUTS
56:01 - THE SALES OF BACK TO STOP THE
56:02 - SHIP.
56:04 - POURS IN ONE MORE BROAD SIDE
56:05 - AND THEN THE PACT AND THEN THEY
56:06 - DECIDE IS HOPELESS.
56:08 - THE SURROUNDING THE SHIP SAID
56:09 - THE GUN BOATS HAVE COME UP.
56:10 - THEY CAN GET FROM THEM. AND
56:12 - THEN THEY SURRENDER. SO THE
56:14 - ONLY HERE IS OVER AND ABOUT 15
56:17 - MINUTES AFTER PERRY TRANSFERS.
56:20 - AFTER 3 HOURS.
56:23 - PERRY'S VICTORY IS LOUD AND
56:24 - THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAN STATES.
56:26 - HOW DO YOU THINK THIS BATTLE
56:28 - SHOULD BE REMEMBERED? WELL,
56:30 - IT IS. IT IS A GREAT VICTORIES
56:31 - ARE DRAMATIC STORY OF. OF
56:35 - PERRY.
56:37 - YOU KNOW, BUILDING A SQUADRON
56:38 - UNDER SOME ADVERSE
56:39 - CIRCUMSTANCES. HE WAS IT'S NOT
56:43 - A DAVID AND GOLIATH STORY THAT
56:45 - WE DID HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF
56:46 - THE DAY AND HE JUST CHOSE THE
56:50 - WAY HE HANDLED THE BATTLE WAS
56:52 - MAYBE NOT EXACTLY BRILLIANT AND
56:54 - THE WAY ELLIOTT SUPPORTED HIM
56:56 - WAS, I THINK TREASONOUS WAR
56:58 - TO BE THAT INSUBORDINATE.
57:00 - SO.
57:01 - IT DIDN'T IT IN AND BEGIN VERY
57:04 - WELL FOR US. AND AND FIGHTING
57:06 - THE BRITISH SQUADRON, WHICH
57:08 - WITH THE AVENGERS PERRY HAD,
57:10 - HE ALMOST MANAGED
57:12 - AS A TEDDY ROOSEVELT SAID MEN'S
57:14 - TOO. SNATCHED DEFEAT FROM THE
57:16 - JAWS OF VICTORY. BUT IN POINT
57:19 - OF FACT, THE FIGHT ON THE
57:21 - LAWRENCE IS WHAT?
57:23 - WELL KIND OF MADE THIS BATTLE
57:25 - SUCH A HEROIC STORY. THE FACT
57:27 - THAT THAT CREW ENDURED. TO THE
57:29 - VERY END SUCH A FANTASTIC
57:31 - CASUALTY RATE STAYED IN THE
57:32 - FIGHT. AND THEN THE FACT THE
57:35 - VICTORY WAS SO TOTAL. YOU
57:37 - CAPTURED EVERY SINGLE SHOT.
57:39 - SO REALLY THE MOTTO THAT HE
57:42 - TOOK FOR THE LAWRENCE WAS THE
57:44 - DYING WORDS OF JAMES LAWRENCE
57:46 - WHEN HIS SHIP, THE CHESAPEAKE
57:47 - WAS BEING SURRENDERED BY SCREW
57:49 - THE BRITISH. HE SAID DON'T GIVE
57:50 - UP THE SHIP. HE HIMSELF WAS
57:52 - MORTALLY WOUNDED. THAT WAS THE
57:54 - ONLY THINGS THAT SALVAGE FROM
57:55 - THAT THAT DEFEAT WAS THE
57:57 - COURAGE OF THE COMMANDER AND
57:58 - HIS EXHORTATION. DON'T GIVE
57:59 - A SHIT. SO PERRY TAKES AS MODEL
58:02 - FLAG. WELL, THE ONLY WAY TO
58:05 - GIVE UP THE HILL AND WIN THE
58:07 - BATTLES, GIVE UP THE SHIP.
58:09 - GO THE NEXT ONE. BUT THE REAL
58:10 - MOTTO, HIS. DON'T GIVE UP.
58:14 - AND THAT'S WHAT KERRY'S FROM
58:15 - THIS BATTLE. AND THAT'S WHY
58:17 - ONE.
58:20 - IT WAS A DOGGED DETERMINATION.
58:25 - TAKE ADVANTAGE VERY BREAK,
58:26 - WHICH HAD PLENTY. BUT YOU NEED.
58:30 - WITH THAT. I'D LIKE TO THINK
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