British Brothers Reacting to The American Revolution (Oversimplified) Part 1

yo welcome back to another reaction hi why are your intros so weird i don't know um this is an oversimplified reaction and i've seen pretty much all the oversimplified videos and this one is the american revolution you've never even heard of this channel but um yes i've explained it to you before but it's like a history channel that sort of mixed humor it's just silly things as well as the history so like if we had this stuff in school yeah we'd would have absolutely loved it yeah definitely but we didn't but i mean we could just love it exactly but um a lot of people were asking me to show you the oversimplified videos and i mean again i know you don't go into this sort of stuff on youtube so there's a lot more stuff like this that we can see if you enjoy it but well i'm sure that suits our humor anyway yeah it's just silly stuff some of it you might not find funny but some of it is just it's just you can change yeah but yeah we're gonna get into this if you want more of your simplified reactions obviously suggest it in the comments we'll do the part two we might do it today or we might do it depending on how people enjoy this one but yeah links are in the description to my instagram my twitter for those want to follow me saying my patreon but let's just get into this holy smokes christopher columbus that is no way to address the king and queen of spain what is wrong with you okay okay so you know how we're looking for a new trade route to india right right and the earth is round right right so i'm thinking we can just sail the other way around the planet right yeah so i set sail right and i reach india right before we get into it i'm gonna miss the [ __ ] joke you don't know much about the american revolution do you know pretty much nothing no not really i've pretty much had to tell him what july 4th was before but um so you're would you understand how america was discovered oh this is sort of explaining it now yeah so you will sort of understand it as it goes along yeah we can just sail the other way around the planet right yes so i set sail right and i reach india right right wrong wrong i did not reach india i did not all right no all right get to the point did you know there's a whole nother freaking continent out there okay and you think i should care about this why oh i'm sorry did i forget to mention there's gold everywhere gold columbus landed in central america in october 1492 and he had the time of his life and by that i mean he went on a huge theft in murder spree he stole gold jewelry people and a hammock and then he returned to show off all of his riches including a few previously undiscovered items such as tobacco the pineapple turkeys and a hammock now i know what you're thinking but oversimplified columbus didn't discover america the vikings did and you'd be partially right in the 11th century leif erikson was the first european to land in america but hey if you love vikings so much then why don't you check out today's sponsor that's a good little little plug getting his money you have to see it but i've seen this ad already plus it's very old so it's not gonna mean anything nickname oversimplified now where was i oh yeah columbus time of his life hammock and suddenly the race was on to explore and conquer the new world after a couple centuries of warring with the natives and each other the european powers have claimed quite a lot of land including so i think at this point this is france no this one oh right yeah yeah the whole blue obviously britain always get themselves involved and everything they absolutely don't know which english and the french claimed is theirs one day the french said i'm gonna build some forts along here and the english were like could you not and the french said sorry but no i could not not and they went ahead and built their forts which pissed off the english so they sent an up-and-coming british lieutenant colonel by the name of george washington with a combined force of british troops and native americans after a short battle the french commander said all right all right we surrender okay boys pack it up there's surrender oh sorry was i not meant to split his head open with the tomahawk don't worry it's not like this will start a seven year long major global conflict and what happened next was a seven year long major global conflict which great britain but the peace negotiations spain gave up florida while france gave up all of its territories in north america but britain's victory came at a cost a 60 million pound cost they were now broke in a lot of debt back then 60 million had to come up with some way to repay it so they went to the colonies and said okay listen up so a huge part of the war was spent protecting you from the french and now we have no money because of it so i'm not sure what you're saying here okay so we spent a lot of money protecting you from the french right right and now we're broke that certainly is a pickle listen to me we spent all of our money protecting you and now we need money can you please pay us back some money no okay we're just going to go ahead and tax it in 1764. the taxing was crazy so they taxed them on so many stupid things the sugar act forcing the colonists to import sugar and molasses exclusively from the british and to pay duties on them then a year later they introduced the extremely controversial stamp act and it worked a little something like this hello shopkeep hello mr bungleberry here's the deed for your new shack stamp that'll be three pence please wait what was that it's the new tax i get a stamp on any paper documentation i make and you have to pay for it would you like to see this pamphlet that explains everything yes please okay stamp two pens please this is awful you know what just give me a deck of cards so i can go gamble my paint away okay we were a bunch of tickets tax legislation right here this is bs until now they have enjoyed relative freedom to rule themselves they were especially unhappy because they didn't have any representatives in the parliament that was levying taxes on them so they protested or raiders gave fiery speeches british goods were boycotted and anyone loyal to the british found themselves increasingly harassed the whole thing actually began to take quite a toll on british business and after just a couple years the british were forced to repeal the stamp act but we still desperately need money what should we do we could try taxing the colonies great idea wait didn't we literally just try that and it failed miserably man look at me i look fabulous have you ever seen such a handsome boy no siree georgie no way you're the handsomest smartest your majesty oh you're still here get the hell out so in 1766 the british made a declaration saying we can do what we want because we're in charge and you can all go suck it then they levied a whole bunch of new taxes on the americans by import duties glass there's a tax for that lead there's a tax for that paper tea oil there's a tax for that and once again the americans boycotted british goods british business felt the pinch and the british had to back down all right this is ridiculous they're my colonies and i have to be able to assert my control repeal all the new taxes except for the one on t also send 1 000 troops to boston to take control oh and make the colonists pay for them and as british troops arrived the tension in boston was palpable you could cut it with a knife and it was all about to come to a head on march 5th a band of local patriots began heckling a british guard at the customs house more and more americans joined in the heckling while more british troops turned up in support of their comrades snowballs were thrown at the british the snowballs turned to rocks the rocks to oyster shells the soldiers outnumbered panicked one surely oyster shells are not as bad as rocks why did you say oyster shows after why not five civilians were killed the patriot press throughout the colonies declared the boston massacre an unwarranted crime committed against the people of boston by the cruel british and the anger continued to grow a british revenue schooner that ran aground in rhode island was burned by the locals when it came to light that the governor of massachusetts supported the suppression of the colonists his house was burned by the locals and next the colonists would set their sights on the remaining tax on tea on december 16th it's probably why they don't like tea probably because like in the u.s coffee is like yeah the big thing yeah tea is sort of like obviously people drink other teas but breakfast british yeah yeah and i taxed it it's just funny how it's so english everything comes down to two yeah literally 1773. a band of patriots known as the sons of liberty disguised themselves as native americans marched down to boston harbor boarded a british merchant ship loaded with teeth and in front of thousands of spectators through nearly ten thousand pounds british people disgusted and they punished massachusetts general assembly revoked their charter and sent three thousand more troops to occupy the city meaning boston and massachusetts were i do love that they just sort of thought you know [ __ ] you you just put your tea in the [ __ ] water of great britain and oh boy were the people pissed the other colonies saw what was happening and worried they might be next so they called a brain trust to decide what to do 56 delegates from 12 colonies gathered and met in philadelphia at the first continental congress and the roll call read like a who's who of america's finest thinkers i'm talking lawyers extraordinaire johnny a and johnny j experienced military commander george washington businessman and future alcoholic beverage samuel adams fiery or raider patty h guy who married a rich lady big jay dickinson and while they weren't present at the first congress soon names like james madison benjamin franklin thomas jefferson and much later alexander hamilton would all serve time in the continental congress the question now though was what to do about the british after much bitter debate and disagreement they eventually agreed on an amazing solution they would simply ask the british to stop can you stop no local militias to start arming and be ready at a minute's notice and across the colonies these minutemen stood ready for the beginning of the american revolutionary war now having your colonies and open rebellion is one thing once they start arming themselves that's when it really hits the fan so british general thomas gage ordered 700 troops from boston out into the rebel-controlled massachusetts countryside to destroy stores of arms and ammunition held by the rebels in concord the british set out in the middle of the night patriots including paul revere wrote ahead to warn that the british were coming giving the rebels time to prepare the two sides met in lexington as the sun began to rise they faced off against each other and in the confusion somebody shot first the shot heard around the world marked the beginning of the american war of independence the rebels were outnumbered and had to fall back to concord as the british split up to search for rebel supplies however more and more patriot rebels kept showing up and this time it was the british who were outnumbered as more fighting kicked off in concord the most professional army in the world was forced to flee back to boston at the hands of local poorly trained militiamen and all along the british were back to boston patriot rebels continued to gather and open fire on the retreating british when the british reached boston the rebel militias surrounded them boston and the british were now under siege as small and naval skirmishes continued around the city and the british would suffer another embarrassing blow this time in upstate new york colonel benedict arnold concocted a plan to take the british stronghold fort ticonderoga which held a large amount of guns and ammunition he set off towards the fort alone hoping to recruit men along the way when he came across the green mountain boys led by ethan allen who as it turned out had the exact same plan he did so they decided to work together but i'm in charge no i'm in charge no i'm in charge no i'm in charge no i'm in charge no i'm in shark no i'm in charge this went on for some time until the green mountain boys threatened to go home and arnold had to concede the group raided the fort at night while the redcoats were asleep and they caught them completely by the price taking the fort great job ethan very impressive by the way what happened to that other guy we sent to take the fort who benedict arnold never heard of him ouch what the [ __ ] nobody knew what was going on the colonies were an open rebellion and for now they even seem to be winning so king george fired general gage replaced him with general william howe and ordered the rebellion to be put down immediately okay the british are definitely going to retaliate for all of this so we should probably put together a proper army first we need to pick a commander-in-chief and i think we can all agree that that job should go to the man the myth the legend george washington my friends i am humbled and honored that you would consider me for such an important role i did not expect for this all right you've been showing up in a military uniform every day for the last 10 months we all know you wanted this so cut the crap george dude uncool so washington began his journey up to boston to take command of the newly established continental army just as the british made their first major attempt to break the siege they made plans to take the high ground on bunker hill but spies warned the continentals of the british plans so they fortified bunker hill and set up defensive positions on nearby breeds hill the day of the battle came and as the british advanced a barrage of continental gunfire was opened up on them twice they tried to climb the hill twice they were pushed back the battle lasted three hours until the continentals finally ran out of ammunition and had to retreat like little battles like this yeah it was just everywhere little battles but made such a big difference and it's also crazy how they i find it baffling how they they they've like recorded this stuff and they've written it down and we can still remember it yeah yeah it's crazy it's wild to me british to take the hill while technically a british victory they suffered nearly 1 000 casualties to the continentals 400. the colonists show the british that this wasn't just a rebellion it was war and they were ready for it but one thing they weren't sure about was why they were fighting while some radicals were starting to throw around the eye word most hope to eventually repair their relationship with great britain so they sent a letter to king george saying hey man looks like things aren't going your way remove the taxes and let's be friends i'm gonna kick your ass send that to the colonies your majesty your handwriting is terrible are you sure just do it what does it say he's gonna lick my gross small engagements continue to occur around the colonies the british burned down the towns of falmouth massachusetts and norfolk virginia as a rep what i love seeing as well is how there's so many names that are similar though yeah there's like a little there's a norwegian ipswich there's like a portsmouth around here is it especially around this side of the us yeah there's a lot of british names places obviously you've got boston which is boston in the uk yeah stuff like new york which i guess is after york in a sense maybe prevention earlier anti-british incidents these actions played right into the hands of patriot propaganda overseas the british were seen as brutes and the french and spanish would soon begin sending supplies to the rebel cause during this time there was also minor fighting going on between patriot and loyalist militias in the southern colonies benedict arnold was still on a mission to win some personal glory for himself so he headed up an attempt to invade canada in a two-pronged attack the continentals managed to capture some british forts and the city of montreal but a hard snowstorm with some smallpox on the side saw them defeated and pushed back at quebec city and they were forced to retreat all the way to fort ticonderoga speaking of which remember all those guns and ammunition well this guy's got a plan for what to do with them he uses oxen to drag 120 000 pounds of artillery for two months through the harsh winter 300 miles all the way to washington and his continental army surrounding boston boom washington's got himself some big gun which is fortunate because up until now his army had been suffering through the cold winter not knowing when the seed would end now they could make a move washington wanted to launch a full assault on the city but his junior officers felt the british were too fortified and to his credit washington was great at hearing and taking on board the ideas of others instead the continentals worked through the night setting the guns up on dorchester heights overlooking the city and when dawn broke and the british saw the guns they knew they were toast their positions were completely exposed it was checkmate they had no choice but to abandon the city 120 ships carried 9000 redcoats and 2 thousand loyalists away to an unknown fate and washington had his first victory of the war washington then moved his army to new york knowing that when the british returned they would probably land there in the meantime a friendly looking old man by the name of thomas payne had written and published a pamphlet called common sense in which he advocated for total independence from great don't eat yellow snow it's just confidence and to this day remains the best-selling title in america it was read aloud in taverns and meeting holes and brought the idea of independence into the mainstream congress began to seriously consider the idea thomas jefferson was selected to write up an official declaration of independence and he went hard writing that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights including life liberty and the pursuit of happiness of course jefferson had over 100 slaves but we don't have to talk it's crazy that how this sort of stuff was written when this whole war was happening and it's sort of kept today obviously things have changed but that's the whole sort of general idea yeah people in that country came from this yeah just writing this sort of stuff down on the 2nd of july congress voted unanimously in favor of independence and john adams declared that the 2nd of july would go down as the most remembered day in american history then a couple days later independence actually came into effect the united states of america was born there was no turning back now the americans tore down a statue of king george in new york and melted him down into 42 000 musket balls to the british it was treason that's just funny and it's going to shoot the british people as well washington and all of congress would be hung speaking of the british guess who's back the king sent an intimidating force of 130 warships and 25 000 men to new york washington knew that taking on the most powerful military in the world wouldn't be easy the british set up camp on staten island as the americans dug into defensive positions around brooklyn heights waiting for an attack to come but the british just waited wearing down their opponent's nerve while building their own strength at one point they launched a big scary artillery barrage and then said you know if i was you right now i'd probably sue for peace but washington told them to shove it the americans kept holding out for what was coming and when they finally hit they hit hard fifteen thousand british troops approached the american position and the two sides fired on each other in massive rows but what the americans didn't realize was they were only fighting a decoy the main british force was going around to flank the americans from behind and when they arrived they inflicted heavy casualties the americans panicked and retreated back to brooklyn heights where they then found themselves trapped between the british army and the river it looked imagine how scared you would be like obviously in this video you're going forward yeah in this video you don't actually like it's just sort of learning yeah yeah if you sort of try and just think about it it's like [ __ ] me these people just you're fighting on the front and there's just loads of more coming around there's just no cover yeah like just fields yeah and there's no like i guess the protection then wasn't as much as well like you shot your [ __ ] yeah basically yeah yeah i mean it must have been [ __ ] yeah between these weird things that the war was already lost but luckily instead of attacking the british decided to dig in for a siege and then a thick fog set in allowing washington's army to escape across the river unimpeded the british continued to engage the americans off manhattan and the americans suffered defeat after defeat after defeat it was a disaster washington's leadership was called into question as thousands of american pows were left to rot as traitors washington's army fled through new jersey all the way down to pennsylvania rarely had an army been so badly beaten yet survived to fight another day and we'll see what happens next oh do you enjoy that yeah it was good it's just an interesting channel like i said again if you had this in school you'd probably i didn't know any of that exactly i didn't know about it before i did the first reaction so i mean it's good for that but like yeah obviously did we learn about the american revolution we learned brief bits i think but i don't really i didn't do history in year ten people with me is not a good thing i think i chose a different subject so i then didn't learn history then but um yeah obviously i'm learning it through this and i learnt it before and now you are no but yeah this is just half of it part two sort of goes even deeper even deeper also just sort of talks about what happens next and how it ends pretty much so we'll do that reaction sometime definitely um but yeah hopefully you did enjoy this one like i said if you want more of these oversimplified reactions with him let us know what ones you want to see next because again he's not clued up on any history exactly like i was at the start i wasn't clued up on any of the history sort of historical sort of events and yeah it's just fun to learn but yeah like i said if you want to want us to watch it suggest it in the comments but yeah until next time like subscribe peace

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Published: Mon Jan 17 2022