Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. I was viewed that British America was not paying enough for its defense. Impressment was national service. They never had the way we do it today. It was also done in Britain, so they had nothing to bitch about.
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  2.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  The colonists were having a better deal than those in Britain. As you pointed out, they were getting away with some tariffs. How do you know you are getting a bargain? When you know what it would really cost. If you do not know that, you may think you were being ripped off. It appears the colonists were not told of what the situation of the people in Britain was. BTW, an ancestor of mine, John Beck, fought for for the rebels. He was in charge of Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, for a while. He eventually made his way back to England living around the Lake District. I do believe he emanated from Sir John Miller who gained ownership of the Islington Estate in London.
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  3.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Many Americans put the independence war as some sort of moral and just quest, when the motivations behind many who instigated the rebellion was more self interest.
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  4.  @KillingDeadThings  It is a matter of opinion whether they were treated unfairly. They were not paying their way on many points, especially the defense. Canadians were not so cantankerous.
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  5.  @Wolfhound223  The HQ for the Battle of the Atlantic was Liverpool.
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  6.  @nautilusshell4969  I am filling in relevant gaps. The Irish were pro Nazi for sure: ♦ DeValera going to the German embassy to give condolences on Hitler's death; ♦ The Irish were suppressing the showing of films of the Nazi death camps in cinema newsreels; ♦ DeValera never went to the US embassy when Roosevelt died; Hence why the Soviets would not allow them into the UN viewing them as pro-Nazi. The British should have re-took the two western Irish ports for protection of the Free World's shipping from Nazi U-Boats. the rest was not worth occupying - taking up valuable resources for nothing.
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  7.  @EricIrl  No corrections are need for my posts.
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  8.  @EricIrl  You corrected nothing but in typical Irish fashion babble about nothing of relevance.
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  9.  @nautilusshell4969  I am adding to the video. It taught me nothing. I pity your ignorance. The Irish were pro Nazi.
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  10.  @EricIrl  I go by fact.
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  11.  @nautilusshell4969  The Irish were pro Nazi. The Soviets got it right. The British pretended the Irish never did what they did, or didn't do, forgetting it post war looking to the future. I go by fact. Follow on.
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  12.  @nautilusshell4969  This one must be Irish.
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  13.  @ronniebibby1283  Those running the country were pro Nazi for sure.
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  14.  GearóidODU -  Wow. An amazing response.
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  15.  @celticsniper6339  What is this ensalavement you refer? The Irish were pro Nazi. Get used to it.
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  16.  @celticsniper6339  You do not like the truth. Stop making things up.
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  17.  @celticsniper6339  WW2 is the era. The Irish were pro Nazi 50 years previously.
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  18. @seanolaocha940 Read back on the thread..
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  19. @seanolaocha940 Read the thread again - my posts. All there.
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  20.  @ccahill2322  Nope.
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  21. Baird's assistant aged 104. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FGM1UxY-4
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  22. The Battle of Brunanburh, 937, said to be at Brombrough near Liverpool, was very important. It was against the Vikings, Irish and Scots, which was supposed to cement English nationalism. The Vikings were beaten. https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2019/10/22/the-search-for-the-battle-of-brunanburh-is-over/
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  23. Before elevators buildings were not higher than 5 floors, as this was the height that people would not climb higher than. What made the skyscraper was two things: 1. The elevator. 2. The light metal framed glass curtain walled building. The first commercial light metal framed glass curtain walled building was Oriel Chambers in Liverpool. It was build before the elevator in 1864, so was 5 floors high. The second was at 16 Cook Street Liverpool two years later. The architect was Peter Ellis. At the time of the constructions, a young American was in Liverpool studying, his parents sent him there to get away from the US civil war. His name was Root, who is regarded as the man who "invented" the modern skyscraper in Chicago.
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  24. At lest there could have been a mention that Kamikazes hit British carriers, bouncing off the armoured decks.
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  25.  @lizj5740  Nothing about the Kamikazes hitting and doing no damage. Lots of pictures available of kamikazes burning on the decks, then being pushed over the side with the carriers running again in 45 minutes. A US carrier would be back to Pearl. The BPF operated off the east of Okinawa giving the US troops support, and also off Taiwan.
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  26. A nice piece on Robert Morris from Liverpool, who signed the declaration of independence - an act of treason.. https://www.facebook.com/hiddenliverpool.co.uk/posts/the-forgotten-liverpudlian-who-was-a-founding-father-of-the-usaon-the-8th-of-may/846939318792734/
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  27. George Stephenson used 4 ft 8 inches gauge on the Stockton to Darlington railway (mixed steam and horse). Stephenson designed the world's first inter-city fully motorised traction passenger railway, the Liverpool-Manchester. To give free movement to reduce binding on curves he added 1⁄2 inch making the gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 inches. That became the world's most common gauge, now called standard gauge, used by 55% of the world's rail networks. Deviations from this gauge tends to be self-contained urban railways.
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  28. That word the Americans use, patriot! A patriot is someone who is patriotic to the existing regime. Anyone else is a rebel. What spin. They spin the war of 1812 as well saying it was a draw when the British won. Laughable.
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  29.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  The British won the war of 1812, despite Americans attempting to say it was a draw. 1) The British achieved their aims in ejecting the invaders from Canada restoring the situation there. 2) The USA failed in achieving their aims, which was the subjugation of Canada by force. The British won. Simple. No other conclusion. The British were totally disinterested in occupying the USA. Americans seem to think as the British never occupied the country, taking it back into the empire, that somehow they did not win.
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  30. Dieppe was not disastrous". It was a test of enemy defenses, no more. No mater what the outcome it was to be analysed. Dieppe was in and out in one day.
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  31. World War Two, the largest conflict in human history, was an emergency. Struth!
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  32. The Irish asked for arms from the USA to defended themselves from the ...British. They were sent packing. I do believe a US official pretty well threw an Irish official out of his office.
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  33. The Matida 2 tank could knock out any German tank, however no German tank could knock it out. The 88mm had a solid shell developed to bust the bunkers of the Maginot Line. In desperation, and panic, they levelled the gun at British tanks at Arras using the solid shells. It worked. Hence the German 88mm anti-tank gun was born. The Germans were lucky they had enough of these guns around to improvise in the anti-tank role - and crews trained well enough to use them in that role. After all they are an AA gun being trained in that role. The now new German anti-tank gun gave them an unexpected edge in the early war. The 88mm was bettered by the British 17pdr in late 1942. Which was more mobile as well.
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  34. Thetis sunk in Liverpool Bay with the stern above water, near vertical. 99 died in teh sub. In hindsight they could have all been saved. A few did get out. I new man who was in teh tug that stood above her at all time until she was doomed. HMS Thetis, salvaged and renamed Thunderbolt was the only submarine ever to have sunk twice.
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  35.  @steeltrap3800  The British subs were too big for the Med. The U class was built, which was excellent. HMS Upholder sank one destroyer, two submarines, nine supply ships, including three large troop transports. Total tonnage sunk was 93031 GRT. She also shelled a road viaduct in Italy. On 12 April 1942, in the Med, HMS Upholder went to intercept a convoy, failing to return. The cause of the loss is unknown to this day.
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  36. Sending digital TV pictures via telephones wires (with the spines being optic fibre), eliminating satellite dishes, direct dedicated TV cable into a home and TV antennas, is gaining ground, so much it will probably take over, yet not much mentioned about that.
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  37. Yes the Gaspee affair had strong slavery connections: The leaders of the burning – men like John Brown and Simeon Potter – made their fortunes in the slave trade and West Indies trade, and were angered by British moves to tax and regulate their economic empires. The Gaspee was a ship sent to enforce British taxes on Rhode Island rum – a key slave trade currency – and other goods. The attackers, then, emerge not as brave colonists inspired by lofty notions of liberty, but rather self-interested elites working to preserve the lucrative business of slavery. http://rihumanities.org/calendar/rethinking-the-gaspee-affair-ri-the-slave-trade-and-revolution/ Rhode Island continued moving enslaved people well into the 19th century, even after the formal abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. The list of the top ten largest slave traders in US history is entirely Rhode Islanders The colonial ruling class was further angered by the growing belief that Great Britain was uniting with free and enslaved Indigenous and Black people The trends coalesced into a set of court cases leading to the landmark Somerset judgement—centered on the enslaved James Somerset’s successful petition for freedom—which effectively ended slavery within England itself. The case began in 1771 and was decided in June, 1772, the very same month Rhode Islanders burned the Gaspee. The decision terrified the colonies, as settlers feared the Crown would soon outlaw slavery across the colonies. https://upriseri.com/2020-06-09-gaspee/
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  38.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Yep, I got that :) American history re: independence, war of 1812, and even WW2, was very much skewed. To their credit, many Americans now want to see matters as they were, looking at the real causes and motivations, questioning the traditional narrative. One big example is the underlying questions on the Civil War. That has created much debate in the US in the past decade.
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  39.  @johnroche7541  That is one theory. If Ireland wanted to join the war, they could have invited the British to occupy, then they are clear.
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  40. There is a plumbers merchants in Holborn in London dating from 1854.
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  41. Rail started in mines. The width of two horses side by side dictated the width of coal wagons. This in turn was basis of the width of rail tracks after for other uses.
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  42. No mention of the BBC? Oh no!
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  43.  @almostfm  An experimental television broadcast service was started in the London area by the BBC in 1930, using an electromechanical 30 line system developed by Baird. People were invited to take part buying TV sets. Thousands did, paying a lot of money for the sets, not knowing if the system would be adopted - it wasn't. It was the first TV station. Regular broadcasts started in 1934. They alternated between the Baird mechanical 240 line system and the all electronic 405 line Marconi-EMI system. The Marconi-EMI system won out the next year. The broadcast transmitters were turned off, as a programme was being broadcast, when war was declared in 1939, for fear of German planes following the beams. The service was resumed in 1945.
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