Before SEALs & Delta Force: Snipers in the Revolutionary War

Historian Patrick K. O’Donnell returns to discuss Revolutionary Snipers, the story of the elite riflemen, scouts, and frontiersmen who helped shape the American Revolution from Quebec and Trenton to Saratoga, Cowpens, and Yorktown. We also dig into Daniel Morgan, Benedict Arnold, the brutal realities of 18th-century warfare, and how these early marksmen helped pioneer tactics that would echo through American special operations history.

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00:00 – Start
01:16 – The First Revolutionary Snipers
04:59 – The Pennsylvania Long Rifle, the “Widowmaker”
09:34 – The Riflemen Mutiny
10:16 – Benedict Arnold & the March to Quebec
11:21 – Starvation in the Maine Wilderness
16:23 – The Siege of Quebec
20:05 – Daniel Morgan’s Rise
24:02 – Fort Ticonderoga & Benedict Arnold
29:40 – Hessian Mercenaries & Britain’s Manpower Problem
34:57 – Washington Confronts British Atrocities
36:53 – The Forgotten Forage War
37:40 – Trenton & the Sniper Shot That Changed the Battle
42:14 – Washington Strikes at Princeton
45:47 – Washington Creates the Rifle Corps
47:24 – Morgan’s Rifle Corps Heads to Saratoga
54:27 – General Fraser Goes Down
56:24 – Burgoyne’s Army Surrenders at Saratoga
1:00:20 – Cowpens & Morgan’s Defense in Depth
1:03:59 – Yorktown & the End of the War
1:17:26 – Benedict Arnold: From Hero to Traitor

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