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Punish the americans to entice americans to dessert from their duty. And so it is the desertion problem that is one of those things that nudges these naval officers to embrace blacks as essential allies in the chesapeake war. To perform more effectively, the british needed more men. Now, they have a second problem. They need better knowledge of the landscape. And hereto, the solution to their problem lies with runaway slaves pressing themselves on the british during growing numbers during 1813. Now, they are under pretty strict orders not to take in a significant number of refugees. These orde...

1832 in the wake of nat turners revolt. Until then, theres an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly artisans and house slaves. The other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in the chesapeake have become christians, and theyre usually methodist or baptist and their class leaders or teachers would like many of them to be able to read the bible. So theres much more literacy than we have bargained on, and you dont need everybody to be able to read it. If theres one group of 50 who can read, he can read it to everybody else. ...

Ships up with goods that they think will sell in america, and its a huge armada of trade crosses the atlantic, and business booms against. Theres then an economic setback, but essential the United States is able to rebuild its economic activity. So peace is really good for peace its good for the economy, war is not. A lesson the british had learned many years before. Yes, have you seen in the called Public Record sorry. Have you seen in the Public Record office any orders to coburn and ross to burn the public buildings in washington . And the implications being retaliation, question mark. Than...

I mean, i wonder if this is actually i dont want to say progress, but i mean, [laughter] im not trying to be funny. [laughter] okay. Im this is just outside your point of view, as in i wonder im listening to everybody talk about how [inaudible] a very good stereotype attached to you, and now heres just one bad case. I guess, i dont know if michael, who just was indicted is an indian, so, i mean, this is yeah. This is the second one. [laughter] i think already we will be available to sign the book if youre interested in that, and thank you so much. That was fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank...

This is our Western Addition of the broadcast. Calls for a ceasefire continue though tonight both sides appear to be heading in the opposite direction. Israeli tanks are massing at the gaza border. Israel briefly did deploy Ground Troops inside the gaza strip this morning, a precursor to a possible ground invasion. In gaza city thousands of palestinians continue fleeing their homes. Many taking shelter in United Nations buildings. So far 167 have died in this latest conflict. More than a thousand have been hurt. We begin with Holly Williams in gaza. Reporter in a night of heavy fighting, israe...