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On 11/18/2025 at 11:59 AM, Hellraiser97 said:

Would it?  The UK effectively bought every slave in the empire and didn't pay the debt off for a 150 years.  Had they made the same offer to the US South, would there still have been so much desire to hang onto slavery?

i just did a dive in to the GNP of the 1861 CSA retconned to 1834 and did not find any solid numbers so your postulate stands

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I could listen to/watch a series just of Iris de Rode discussing whatever she wants to discuss.

Also, glad John Paul Jones getting a huge shoutout, but they didn't discuss how he got his brass balls all the way across the Atlantic.

Glad to see they are doing a Henry David Thoreau series next year.

Edit: Glad they brought the global/world war aspect into it, once France and Spain joined in.

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quibbles from last night - stuff not covered at all:

- lee was court martialed for his conduct at monmouth

- the molly pitcher legend comes from monmouth

- jones commandeering of the serapis - his famous line 'i have not yet begin to fight' was not mentioned unless i missed it - he sailed to the dutch port of texel not france - serapis 'false' flag not shown or discussed - us not yet recognized by the dutch at this time made this a very tricky diplomatic situation - 2 of the commandeered ships were re-flagged as french and 1 was made 'american' and slipped out undetected in a pack of dutch vessels 2 days after xmas

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2 minutes ago, bluto said:

Washington Washington killing for fun 

He once held an opponent's wife's hand... in a jar of acid... at a party.

Finished it this morning- great series.

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On 11/22/2025 at 7:29 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

I would suggest binging it. Just works better. Puts you fully in it. 

Couldn't have been improved on but definitely would have liked to have binged it the first time, or at least 3 episodes at a time.

Washington was definitely the real deal. He dealt with that mutiny, and he could have created a dictatorship of sorts, but he didn't.

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