his named is richard montgomery. this is richard montgomery. and montgomery's job was to take the city of montreal. he was supposed to spread up lake champlain and the theory was, if montgomery attacked montreal, the british would put all their force against him and quÉbec would fall without resistance. they were going to hit the two major cities of canada simultaneously. well, what's interesting about montgomery is, first, i did my dissertation on him. so that makes him fascinating. i told my wife, if we had a son, i would name him richard montgomery gabriel, but mercifully that never happened. he's an interesting guy. he shows us something about the coming of the revolution. he shows us something about conspiracy. he shows us something about rage militaire. montgomery is 37 years old and a former british officer. he spends 15 years in the british army. three very high-ranked american general officers from the revolution are all former british soldiers. they all seemingly know each other. we'll talk about gates later, charles lee, we'll talk

this is richard montgomery. thomas payne will write for an appeal of independence using montgomery's ghost to argue for independence. montgomery becomes this great hero. what is interesting is he doesn't want independence. we saw that one letter he wrote where he said we hope, you know, this thing ends quickly or england is through with us quickly. about two weeks before richard montgomery is killed, he writes a letter to his brother-in-law who is a member of congress and he says, has the americans approached any foreign powers and have they set a date beyond which reconciliation is impossible? he never gets answered because he gets killed. and he has an inte melancholyre necessity. i hope we never have to adopt a position of independence. i hope they don't force us to do. that, so richard montgomery dies from neglect. they want to get the rights back and be left alone. and the american army persists in canada until the spring, but the american army in canada's finish. we will talk about that a little bit more n

history and that is brigadier general richard montgomery who was killed unfortunately way ahead of his time for death in the attack of quebec city and ben franklin felt so guilty about that, that he wanted to have this elaborate memorial put up for him there. you can see that in the front of the church. now, was this the first meeting of george washington and alexander hamilton? i'm talking about the story that they met at fort bunker hill in lower manhattan april of '76. we don't know. maybe they met there. maybe they didn't. it's more likely that washington and hamilton met later in 1776 during washington's organized retreat through the state of new jersey. okay. but this is possible. bayard's hill, ill point it out on the a map is the highest point at that point in lower manhattan. unfortunately manhattan's contours changed over time so we lost our hills and dales substantially, so you wouldn't know where bayard's hill is now, but i'll show it to you on a map in a minute. one thing we do know is that alexander hamilton's artillery unit does fire on two british ships. they are the h.

history and that's brigadier general richard montgomery who was killed unfortunately way ahead of his time for death in the attack on quebec city and ben franklin felt so guilty about that, that he wanted to have this elap rat memorial put up for him here so you can see that in the front of the church. >>> now, was this the first meeting of george washington and alexander hamilton? i'm talking about this story that they met at ft. bunker hill on baird's hill in lower manhattan april of 1776. we don't know. maybe they met there. maybe they didn't. it's more likely that washington and hamilton met later in 1776 during washington's organized retreat through the state of new jersey, okay? but this is possible, so there's been a couple of illustrations of that. baird's hill, i'll point it out on a map momentarily, is the highest point at that point in lower manhattan. if you know about the manhatta project years ago, manhattan's contours have changed over times so we've lost our hills and dales substantially so you wouldn't know where baird's hill is now, but i'll show it to you on a map i