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Bill is an entrepreneur with 1,300 employees and he's well known for winning the world's top sailing competition, the Americas Cup, on his first try. That might sound wild at first, but it turns out that Bill has saline in his blood. Here's Bill to tell the story of the War of 1812, the Navy's motto, Don't Give Up This Ship. and how it all relates to him. Take it away, Bill.
Well, the War of 1812 was really, some people call it the Second Revolutionary War. Because What the British did. Here is a They made a calculation it was better to withdraw than to spend Oh yeah. All the f the money and energy and stuff trying to keep the colonies intact. And What started the War of 1812?
was two things. The British Were insisting and by force. That any trade going from one US port to another. had to be done in a British ship. And also, they wanted to govern all the the trade routes going to Europe.
And then the British Navy would then Halt. A merchant ship, United States merchant ship, and take off the very young good sailors. and essentially make them slaves. on the British boats. In fact, I'll tell you something.
Uh that's very interesting. You know where the phrase son of a gun came from? Means, you know, an illegitimate child, a bastard. And on a British ship's, they would name each cannon. Henry, George, Alex, Bill, Charles.
Harold, etc. And that's how they know they're gun.
Okay, I got to run to George. Uh Get on it. And when they would go into Uh port. to get, say, work done on the boat. They had the Marines on board and they wouldn't let the people Are they like the British?
crew members off. But they wouldn't let they uh impress people off the boat because they knew they would run away. And so occasionally they would bring on prostitutes. to satisfy the needs of the mint. and one of the prostitutes would occasionally get uh get pregnant.
And she would have a baby. And they would say, that's a son of a gun. Because they didn't know whose gun it was. A lot of people don't know this. But the Royal Navy was the only meritocracy in the military of England.
And the reason that was a meritocracy is because The captains and the admirals shared the bounty with the king. And a lot of Lord Nelson's communications back and forth with the king was arguing over how much what the split was. And so they wanted the very best captains of their warship. It's economic. And so there's this one guy by the name of Captain Bloke.
who worked his way up from a cabin boy to be captain of the ship. And he also was sort of like patent. You know, he said, Don't die for your country, let the other son die for his country. And he said, Don't shoot the ship, shoot the the gunners and shoot the officers. Ah.
Yeah. And Captain Lawrence, who was the captain of the Chesapeake was transferred. from the Hornet that sunk the British Peacock in 15 minutes in the Battle off Guiana. And then he was transferred to the little sister ship of the Constitution. And that was the Chesapeake.
And that was made out of lumber. in Boston shipyards that were the leftovers for making these other big ships. And it was a smaller frigate, whereas the Constitution was much larger. But his ship was about the same size as the British ships, see. And one of the reasons that the Constitution won is because it was longer and bigger, it had more guns, and it had thicker walls.
so the b the cannonballs would bounce off of it. But anyway, this guy Captain Bloke was sent. over to teach the Americans a lesson. Because the Americans had won so many sea battles. Actually, in that whole war, British only won three sea battles of the Americans.
Well anyway. One of the three that were lost was the Battle of the Chesapeake and the Shannon.
Well I don't know Chesapeake was in. Boston Harbor. And Lawrence, Captain Lawrence, had a real problem with the crew because they all wanted to join the privateers. because they get more money. Seeing they didn't want to get the U.S.
Navy pay.
Well, anyway, Captain Bloke toured around Boston for two weeks. trying to get Lawrence to come out. To do battle, but with a raw crew, and he didn't know the ship very well. He's refused. And then finally, Captain Bloke wrote a letter and said, Please, would you come out and give me battle?
And I promise it'll be gentleman to gentlemen. I'll have no other ships waiting, are lying in secret. And it'll be an honorable battle. And we both respect each other and we both have duty to our own countries. And so Lawrence, being a macho guy, immediately set sail.
And Bloke then didn't want to fight off Boston. simply because if he lost, there was so much anti-British sentiment in Boston, then his crew would get fed to the pigs. And that's how they got rid of bodies in those days, because the pigs would beat the eat the whole body and all the bones and everything.
So Captain Bloke set off to go up to Newburyport or somewhere up there. And then when he got to where he wanted, he slowed down, backed his hails and slowed down. And then Lawrence His crew was so green and rebellious. He couldn't get them to do all the maneuvers to cross the T. You know what crossing the T is?
Now, if you have one battleship. that's going forward, another battleship wants to cross perpendicular to it because all of his guns can fire at the ship that's going forward. And the forward ship can only fire his two guns forward. See? But he didn't cross the T, he just tried to come right alongside.
And as he did, Bloke's crew just started shooting the crew of Lawrence's boat. And they even shot Lawrence.
Well, anyway, Lawrence was taken down below, and then they chopped the helmsman, so the boat went up head to wind and then went backwards, got in irons and went backwards. And when it hit the stern of the Chesapeake hit the bow of the Shannon. Then the Shannon boarded the Chesapeake and captured the boat. And the battle only lasted, ironically, 15 minutes as well. But Captain Lawrence died.
after he was carried down, and his dying words, don't give up the ship, which became the motto in the American Navy.
Now, the reason I collect those is because that was one of my mother's ancestors.
So, you know, of course I fell in love with the sea. I have a collection. Oh. All the paintings that were done of that battle, and because My ancestor lost and the English won. Uh only English painters did it.
Uh and Here, come in here. This is the guy that beat my ancestor. If you see the painting, he's standing on the American flag. He's got a metal, he's got this, the sword. That's here's his sword.
And here's his medal. I say I'm getting even with the SOB. Because His family ran out of money and they were selling all this stuff, so I bought it all. It was actually his ancestors or something? Yeah, his ancestors.
So I'm getting even with him. Yeah. Only in America. And a special thanks to Monty Montgomery for the production on that piece. and his special thanks to Bill Coke for sharing his story.
What a joy to listen to him share with us in the end why sailing matters so much to him. Again, he won the Americas Cup on his first try. That's just astonishing. And it turns out his affinity for sailing finds its roots in what he called America's Second Revolution, the War of 1812. The story of Bill Koch, the story of the War of 1812, and our Navy's motto all.
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Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea or OSA in adults with obesity? They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability, and concentration issues, it may be due to OSA. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don't sleep on osa.com.
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