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Hello ladies and gentlemen, I'm La Curiosa Impertinente and on tonight's episode we're having Jeremiah Lee and Elbridge Carey

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who are here to talk about the secrets about the American War of Independence.

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Hi guys, how are you?

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We are really good, happy that our goal has finally been achieved after all this time fighting for it.

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Well, we all know the stories of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams,

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but the ones that really interest us are those of those people like you,

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rebellious mercants willing to give their lives for a renewed nation.

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Can you tell us what leads you to fight for that cause?

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Of course! I'm Jeremiah Lee. I was an important merchant of our city, Marblehead.

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Originally, I was a loyalist, but it didn't take long for me to join the cause and turn against the British Empire.

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I risked an enormous shipping fortune and died as a result of actions on the eve of the Battle of

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Lexington and Concord. I was the first rebel leader to give his life in the cause of independence.

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Good morning, I am Elbridge Gregory. Unlike Jeremy Ali, I was one of the signers of the United States

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Declaration of Independence. I refused to sign the United States Constitution since it did not include

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a rights letter which I had been fighting for years. I was born into a wealthy merchant family

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in the town of Marblehead. I vocally opposed British colonial policy in 1760 and was active

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in the early states of organizing the resistance in the American Revolutionary War.

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It is known that the Spanish and French troops played a role that completely conditioned the

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independence of your country. What do you have to say about it?

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I'm not sure if you knew, but they don't call me La Curiosa Impertinente for nothing.

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I knew all the secrets of all the nobles, Spanish mercants. Among them was Diego de

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Gardoqui, a mercant from Bilbao who, according to what I have been told,

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collaborate with your caste and with whom you two have been in touch with. Can

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you go into detail about how you came in contact with him? Oh yes, so to put you in

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context, at one point the Continental Congress was running out of money,

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provisions, ammunition, weapons, blankets, tents, uniforms and medicines. Our goal

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was to defeat the British and for that we needed help and that's why we asked

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for help from yours, soldiers and Spanish-speaking citizens and diplomats.

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They helped us to obtain everything we needed to fight England and keep the

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spirit of independence alive. So yes, the Spaniards helped us a lot and it can be

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said that thanks to them, we achieved our great achievement, forming a new nation.

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Responding to your question, yes, the information that you have received is true. We have been in

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contact with Diego de Gardoqui. As my friend has said, we were lacking many things indispensable

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for our fight, so we contacted the Spaniards who agreed to send us everything we needed. Diego de

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Gardoqui was a Spanish merchant who supported our cause vehemently. He was the first to send

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these much needed materials that's what we had to talk with him to coordinate the arrivals of

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supplies blankets weapons to this day and for this very reason we consider him a faithful friend of

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the united states i understand this will be the end of the our interview thank you jeremiah and

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jerry for sharing the most unpublished details of the american war of independence and in the world

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know that the spanish participate in the world and help you before finishing i would like to

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tell you a little secret as a gift of gratitude for having come to my program they send provisions

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but the reality is that spain and france already support you from the beginning because beginning

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because they wanted to weaken their greatest enemy england which was the most powerful naval force

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and was blocking the passage for the for the ships thank you very much thank you very much