Painting, above: Thayendanegea, Chief of the Six Nations, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Thayendanegea, "he sets or places together two bets," was born in the spring of 1742 in what today is Ohio on the banks of the Muskingum River. His father, a prominent warrior, died when his son was an infant. Joseph Brant, his English name, became a figure of distinction, a remarkable man. The young Mohawk was educated in English at a school in Lebanon, Connecticut, under the tutelage of Dr. Eleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College. Described by his teacher as being "of a sprightly genius, a manly and genteel deportment, and of a modest and benevolent temper," Brant was soon employed teaching the Mohawk language to fellow scholars planning on working with the Indians. Later he became an interpreter with Indian Affairs.

When war broke out between Britain and France in 1756, the Iroquois allied themselves with Britain. The People of the Long House had long memories. They remembered that in 1609 Champlain had joined forces with a war party of Montagnais, Algonkins and the Huron warriors and defeated the Iroquois at the site of what later became Fort Ticonderoga.  Champlain then added insult to injury in 1615 when he supported the Hurons in an attack on a Mohawk village in New York.  At 15 years of age, Joseph . . .  [more]

See Hour 1, Block C, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 1, Block A: Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson (1 of 2)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 1, Block B: Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson (2 of 2)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 1, Block C: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff (1 of 2)   This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty's Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution's "losers" and their legacies. -- ALibris review

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 1, Block D: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff (2 of 2)

Hour Two

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 2, Block A: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (1 of 8)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 2, Block B: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (2 of 8)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 2, Block C: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (3 of 8)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 2, Block D: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (4 of 8)

Hour Three

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 3, Block A: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (5 of 8)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 3, Block B: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (6 of 8)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 3, Block C: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (7 of 8)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 3, Block D: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (8 of 8)

Hour Four

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 4, Block A: Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy by Thomas J. Schaeper (1 of 2)   A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable résumé as both a scientist and a man of letters. In recognition of his works in natural history, Bancroft was unanimously elected to the Royal Society, and while working to secure French aid for the American Revolution, he became a close associate of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams. Though lauded in his time as a staunch American patriot, when the British diplomatic archives were opened in the late nineteenth century, it was revealed that Bancroft led a secret life as a British agent acting against French and American interests.  In this book, the first complete biography of Bancroft, historian Thomas J. Schaeper reveals the full extent of the agent's deception during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Operating under aliases, working in ciphers, and leaving coded messages in the trees of Paris's Tuileries Gardens, Bancroft filtered information from unsuspecting figures including Franklin and Deane back to his contacts in Britain, navigating a complicated web of political allegiances. Through Schaeper's keen analysis of Bancroft's correspondence and diplomatic records, this biography reveals whether Bancroft should ultimately be considered a traitor to America or a patriot to Britain. --Yale Press review

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 4, Block B: Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy by Thomas J. Schaeper (2 of 2)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 4, Block C: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff (1 of 2)

Sunday 22 June 2014  / Hour 4, Block D: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff (2 of 2)

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