Snapshot · The Charlie Kirk Show
Before declaring independence, the founders sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George in August 1775 seeking peace; the king rejected it and declared them in rebellion.
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Kirk begins his historical narrative by reframing what the Declaration of Independence actually was: not the start of the war but its justification. Blood was already being shed at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, more than a year before the signing. Bunker Hill followed in June 1775. Kirk emphasizes that the founders, being pious Christians, first sought peace — the Olive Branch Petition, sent to King George in August 1775 — before concluding war was unavoidable. The king's rejection of that petition, declaring the colonists in rebellion and promising to crush them, forced the founders' hand. This sequence, Kirk argues, demolishes the caricature of the founders as reckless agitators.
The British had 36,000 troops in New York and Boston, a professional navy, and Prussian mercenaries. The colonists had muskets, faith, and each other. Kirk frames this as the most improbable military upset in human history — a ragged coalition of farmers and preachers who had one thing the redcoats lacked: a belief in God Almighty.
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