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In this episode, we explore new hampshire s four hundred year rebellion. You know, when you picture the modern state of New Hampshire, there is like a very specific image that probably comes to mind. Right. The whole cinematic postcard perfect version of New England. Exactly. You likely picture quiet, snow dusted forests or maybe prestigious boarding schools with ivy crawling up the brick. and very polite people queuing up in town halls for those early political primaries. Yeah, it all feels so, I don't know, organized. It really does. It projects this aura of stability that suggests, well, that it's just always been that way. But today we are taking a deep dive into a comprehensive Wikipedia article on the history of New Hampshire and the history laid out in these sources. Honestly, it shatters that postcard completely. Oh, absolutely. We're definitely not talking about a quiet or subtle timeline here. No, not at all. We are talking about a history with New York and managing your own affairs because your founder never showed up, you're going to get really good at resisting outside control. Precisely. That geographical chaos incubated a fierce, almost uncompromising culture of home rule. The early New Hampshireites were conditioned over generations to be deeply skeptical of distant authorities. Mainly because those authorities had proven to be totally incompetent at managing the frontier. Exactly. Which perfectly primes this colony to be the absolute tip of the spear against the biggest, most overbearing distant authority of them all, the British Empire. So in December 1774, locals in Portsmouth get a warning from Paul Revere. Right, months before the famous shots at Lexington and Concord. Exactly. And over two nights, this massive group of rebels rose out to Fort William and Mary in the harbor, overwhelms the British guards, and just steals a massive cache of royal gunpowder. It