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Frigate Duels of the War of 1812
USS United States vs HMS Macedonian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhf8jays7w
Drachinifel
Jan 26, 2024
HMS Macedonian was a 18 pounder "Heavy Frigate"
USS United States was a 24 pounder "Large/Super Frigate"
Drachinifel
https://www.youtube.com/@Drachinifel
Drachinifel War of 1812 playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMK9a-vDE5zHulaKPrLH6amYeUBsI1LHR
In 1861, the Confederate States of America
captured Norfolk and the USS United States,
which they renamed CSS United States.
The following year, she was sunk by the Confederates
and then raised by the United States, and
renamed back to USS United States, later broken up
USS(HMS) Macedonian ship figurehead is at the U.S. Naval Academy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_United_States_vs_HMS_Macedonian
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/the-war-of-1812/uss-united-states-vs-hms-macedonian.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_United_States_(1797)
Frigate Duels of the War of 1812 - USS Constitution vs HMS Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OgbNQDPIi8
Drachinifel
Feb 23, 2024
Frigate Duels of the War of 1812 - HMS Shannon vs USS Chesapeake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ObmqkCHoA
Drachinifel
Mar 29, 2024
Frigate Duels of the War of 1812 - USS Essex vs HMS Phoebe and HMS Cherub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDoIhUPyaxo
Drachinifel
Apr 26, 2024
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How a Private Company, Became a World Power - The British East India Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOuDSSEIiVg
History of Everything
Nov 18, 2023
runtime 41:40
History of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryofEverythingChannel
How the East India Company Took Over An Entire Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irAJcGwMb2I
This Is History
Jan 25, 2023
runtime 15:35
The city of London has been the centre of Britain’s economic and commercial activity for centuries, with many of the largest and wealthiest companies in the world choosing to locate their headquarters in the nation’s capital to this day. However, none of these modern businesses can compare to what was undoubtedly the most powerful multinational corporation the world has ever seen. Established over 400 years ago, the East India Company, from it’s headquarters on Leadenhall Street, would rise from humble beginnings as a trading company for voyages to India; to effectively becoming the de facto state government of the entire sub-continent.
During it’s heyday, the Company would surpass the strength and wealth of even the mightiest nation states, and with it’s own private armies, would push aside the long established native dynasties of India, seizing control of their territories for itself. All this would be achieved by maintaining an iron grip on the most valuable trade routes in the world, which generated staggering amounts of wealth for it’s employees and shareholders. But how did this private corporation come to rule over one of the largest and richest regions on earth in the first place? This is the history of the East India Company.
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world. The EIC had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three Presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British army at the time. The operations of the company had a profound effect on the global balance of trade, almost single-handedly reversing the trend of eastward drain of Western bullion, seen since Roman times.
Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India.
The company eventually came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858. Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj.
The company subsequently experienced recurring problems with its finances, despite frequent government intervention. It was dissolved in 1874 under the terms of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act enacted one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it vestigial, powerless, and obsolete. The official government machinery of the British Raj had assumed its governmental functions and absorbed its armies.
This Is History
https://www.youtube.com/@this_is_history
The British East India Company and the Origins of the American Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWcfDYnxY9U
American Revolution Institute
May 31, 2023
runtime 1:15:58
In May 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which instituted a tax of three cents per pound on all British tea sold in America.
The act effectively granted a monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies to the British East India Company, which was looking to reduce its excessive stores of tea and relieve its financial burdens.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Tea Act’s passage, James Vaughn, a historian of the British Empire at the University of Chicago, examines the developments in Britain, British North America and South Asia leading to the passage of the act, and discusses why a relatively mundane piece of parliamentary legislation renewed the imperial crisis and led to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
American Revolution Institute
https://www.youtube.com/@AmRevInstitute
Hostile Takeover: How a Private Company Colonised India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sXQq_ba4KI
Megaprojects
Dec 24, 2022
runtime 24:50
Megaprojects
https://www.youtube.com/@megaprojects9649
The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzQxNZfGM4
Odd Compass
Jul 27, 2023
runtime 16:01
Over 190 years of colonial rule, the British collapsed India's institutions and economy, and destroyed the equivalent of $45 TRILLION. This is the shocking story of how the British -- through the East India Company first, then the Crown -- actually accomplished such a horrible feat.
Odd Compass
https://www.youtube.com/@OddCompass
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Forging an Empire - The Portuguese Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOcaaucVYw
Flash Point History
Sep 5, 2023
runtime 1:23:22
Portugal forged a massive trading empire. It was an incredible achievement for a small country that had a very modest population. In this first part, we review the initial stages where Portuguese sailors and explorers launched themselves into the unknown and took the first steps at exploring. Men like Prince Henry the Navigator who set the ball in motion, Bartholomeu Dias who was the first to round the tip of Africa, and Vasco da Gama who was the first European to find a sea passage to India.
Flash Point History
https://www.youtube.com/@FlashPointHx
The Age of Discovery
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpA6sZxl1jJuXAUL18Z-sBP2eVvMNjDWG
Henry the Navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama,
Pedro Ãlvares Cabral
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The Dutch East India Company: The Richest Company In The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKxqkh-NEs8
This Is History
Mar 12, 2023
runtime 15:44
This Is History
https://www.youtube.com/@this_is_history
The Dutch East India Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77kjPZbFwyU
Retired Afloat
Apr 17, 2020
runtime 45:32
The largest, richest, most powerful and most ruthless company in history, the VOC dominated world trade, started wars, opened up new frontiers, destroyed whole populations, were responsible for starting apartheid in South Africa and discovering Australia and New Zealand. How did it all start? The history of the organization, the huge successes and the failures of the world’s first multinational company.
Retired Afloat
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War of 1812
Battle of Valparaíso (1814):
When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGZfo32sLA
Discussed by
Dr Alexander Clark,
Naval Historian, Live Stream (features Stream Chat Interaction)
Mar 28, 2024
Dr Alexander Clark, Naval History Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2x09tU0GwAGiSbFPEhIwQ
Battle of Valparaíso (1814)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valpara%C3%ADso
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_(1799)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Phoebe_(1795)
The Battle of Valparaíso, also called the Capture of USS Essex, was a naval action fought during the War of 1812.
It took place off Valparaíso, Chile on March 28, 1814, between the frigate USS Essex and the sloop USS Essex Junior of the United States Navy and the frigate HMS Phoebe and sloop HMS Cherub of the Royal Navy.
The British ships won the battle, and the American vessels were captured.
Captain David Porter of the frigate USS Essex (36-guns) cruise into the Pacific, armed with mostly short-range carronades.
Fictionalised in the movie
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_and_Commander:_The_Far_Side_of_the_World
as the Large French frigate, privateer Acheron
(playing the Movie fictionalised role of USS Constitution in all but name)
https://patrickobrian.fandom.com/wiki/Acheron
Frigate Duels of the War of 1812 - USS Essex vs HMS Phoebe and HMS Cherub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDoIhUPyaxo
Apr 26, 2024
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