Israel Putnam
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Oct 21, 2026
Eric MetaxasHOST
Yeah, he was killed in the French and Indian War.
Eric MetaxasHOST
And as he died, his head was cradled by Israel Putnam.
Eric MetaxasHOST
And then, of course, the people of Massachusetts pay for a monument to him in Westminster Abbey, which gives you this picture of we're all part of the same thing.
Eric MetaxasHOST
This was a civil war.
Richard M. LimGUEST
And there weren't a lot of choices.
Richard M. LimGUEST
I mean, there was Israel Putnam.
Richard M. LimGUEST
There was Charles Lee.
Richard M. LimGUEST
But they just did not have the leadership and the gravitas that Washington had.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
The owner of the wine soon found out what was going forward on his premises and began remonstrating, but he preached to the wind.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
Finding that he could affect nothing with them, he went to General Putnam's quarters, which was not more than three or four rods off.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
The general immediately repaired in person to the field of action.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
The soldiers getting wind of his approach hurried out into the street.
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Barry EadsNARRATOR
This road led from the main road to the shore of the North River.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
I was alone, the rest of the guard having, for some cause which I have now forgotten, passed on and were out of sight.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
I saw General Putnam on horseback and alone coming up the road in my rear.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
In my front, and nearer to me than I was to the general, was a high fence and a set of high and very heavy bars, composed of pretty large poles or young trees.
Bundy98NARRATOR
The Rapids above the Falls of Niagara.
Bundy98NARRATOR
During the last Canadian war, General Putnam, the famous partisan soldier, made the first descent upon Goat Island.
Bundy98NARRATOR
A wager had been laid that no man in the army would dare to cross the rapids from the American side, and with the personal daring for which he was remarkable, above all the men of that trying period, he undertook the feat.
Bundy98NARRATOR
Selecting the four stoutest and most resolute men in his corps, he embarked in a bateau just above the island, and with a rope attached to the ring-bolt, which was held by as many muscular fellows on the shore, he succeeded by desperate rowing in reaching his mark.
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Kimberly SassenNARRATOR
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Kimberly SassenNARRATOR
Section twenty.
Kimberly SassenNARRATOR
View from Fort Putnam.
Kimberly SassenNARRATOR
This fort, which commands the military position of West Point, and which was considered so important during the Revolutionary War, is now in ruins, and is visited by all travelers for the superb view which it affords of the sublime pass of the Highlands.
Eric BuchananHOST
Okay, so they get back over to Manhattan, and George Washington ends up, Basically, Fort being still being forced to divide up his troops on the very bottom lower tip of Manhattan, what is now basically the end of Manhattan facing the Statue of Liberty and facing and facing Staten Island.
Eric BuchananHOST
Israel Putnam ends up setting up about 6,000 Americans there.
Eric BuchananHOST
And then way north of there, Clint, have you ever been to New York City? I have, yeah.
Eric BuchananHOST
What's the longest you remember walking in New York City today?
Eric BuchananHOST
So that piece between the World Trade Center now, the new one, and where they were before, and the end of the island is maybe 40 or 50 blocks.
Eric BuchananHOST
And it was still kind of houses and some little bit of farmland in there.
Eric BuchananHOST
That's where Israel Putnam is.
Eric BuchananHOST
If you go today from there and you try to walk from there to Columbia University, That's about a four-mile walk on city streets.
KalindaNARRATOR
The history of the whole vicinity, in short, is laden with picturesque incident, and the details of fact never approached those of romantic fiction more closely than in the annals of this interesting region.
KalindaNARRATOR
Israel Putnam, best known to us as one of the most daring heroes of the Revolution, began here his career in the French and Indian War as scout and ranger, and of no American frontiersman can a more exciting series of adventures be told.
KalindaNARRATOR
Some of these adventures it is our purpose here to give.
KalindaNARRATOR
After the Fort William Henry massacre, the American forces were concentrated in Fort Edward, on the headwaters of the Hudson.
Sheldon GreavesGUEST
What happened was they became Henley-Putnam University.
Sheldon GreavesGUEST
It's named after David Henley and Israel Putnam, who were two of George Washington's spymasters.
Sheldon GreavesGUEST
And it continued for a while, and then they merged with another university, National American University.
Sheldon GreavesGUEST
So it is now the Henley-Putnam School of Strategic Security at National American University.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
The owner of the wine soon found out what was going forward on his premises and began remonstrating, but he preached to the wind, finding that he could affect nothing with them.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
He went to General Putnam's quarters, which was not more than three or four rods off.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
The general immediately repaired in person to the field of action.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
The soldiers getting wind of his approach hurried out into the street, when he, mounting himself upon the doorsteps of my quarters, began haranguing the multitude, threatening to hang every mother's son of them.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
I sincerely wished him hanged and out of the way, for fixing himself upon the steps of our door, but he soon ended his discourse and came down from his rostrum, and the soldiers dispersed, no doubt much edified.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
I got home as soon as the general had left the coast clear, took a draught of the wine, and then flung the flask and the remainder of the wine out of my window from the third story into the water cistern in the backyard, where it remains to this day for aught I know.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
However, I might have kept it if I had not been in too much haste to free myself from being hanged by General Putnam or by his order.
Barry EadesNARRATOR
I never heard of anything further about the wine or being hanged about it.
Eric BuchananGUEST
They go to his house and they can see from his house, both the American lines and they can see the East river.
Eric BuchananGUEST
And you've got Alexander, uh, uh, Israel Putnam, Spencer Mifflin, Alexander McDonald, Samuel Holden Parsons, John Moore and Scott, James Wadworth, John Fellows and George Washington.
Eric BuchananGUEST
These are all the American generals and senior officers gathered together.
Eric BuchananGUEST
What are we going to do? Are we going to fight from here and make a stand, make the British come at us up this hill? Or are we going to evacuate and combine our army while we have the chance? And Mifflin, General Mifflin, he's the one who finally says to George Washington, basically, Your Excellency, I think it's time to retreat.
Eric BuchananHOST
American lines, and they can see the East River.
Eric BuchananHOST
And you've got Alexand- uh, uh, Israel Putnam, uh, Spencer Mifflin, Alexander McDonald-
Clint PowellHOST
Wow
Eric BuchananHOST
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