Uprost\u0159ed Americk\u00e9 revoluce \u010delila kontinent\u00e1ln\u00ed arm\u00e1da gener\u00e1la George Washingtona velk\u00e9mu nedostatku st\u0159eln\u00e9ho prachu, sv\u00e9 nezbytn\u00e9 munice pro veden\u00ed v\u00e1lky proti Brit\u016fm. Zat\u00edmco je britsk\u00e9 s\u00edly obl\u00e9haly v Bostonu, jejich z\u00e1soby klesly na pouh\u00fdch dev\u011bt kulek na voj\u00e1ka.<\/p>\n\n
Vstupuje Henry Tucker, bermudsk\u00fd obchodn\u00edk dychtiv\u00fd naj\u00edt nov\u00e9 obchodn\u00ed p\u0159\u00edle\u017eitosti. Cestoval do Philadelphie, kde se se\u0161el Kontinent\u00e1ln\u00ed kongres a hledal v\u00fdjimku z embarga uvalen\u00e9ho Kongresem na britsk\u00e9 kolonie. Tucker tvrdil, \u017ee Bermudy jsou siln\u011b z\u00e1visl\u00e9 na dovozu americk\u00fdch potravin a \u017ee obchod by prosp\u011bl ob\u011bma stran\u00e1m.<\/p>\n\n
Tuckerovi synov\u00e9 odhalili tajemstv\u00ed: nestr\u00e1\u017een\u00fd sklad obsahuj\u00edc\u00ed zna\u010dnou z\u00e1sobu st\u0159eln\u00e9ho prachu t\u011bsn\u011b severn\u011b od hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Bermud, St. George’s. Franklin si uv\u011bdomil, \u017ee Bermudy by mohly vyjednat v\u00fdjimku z embarga, pokud Tucker p\u0159iveze st\u0159eln\u00fd prach k obchodu.<\/p>\n\n
V noci 14. srpna 1775 se Tucker a jeho loaj\u00e1ln\u00ed spiklenci infiltrovali do skladu st\u0159eln\u00e9ho prachu. Vnikli dovnit\u0159 pr\u016fduchem a zne\u0161kodnili jedinou str\u00e1\u017e, pokud tam v\u016fbec n\u011bjak\u00e1 byla. Uvnit\u0159 z\u00edskali 126 sud\u016f st\u0159eln\u00e9ho prachu o celkov\u00e9 hmotnosti 3 150 liber \u2013 dost na to, aby \u0443\u0447\u0435\u0442n\u00e1sobili Washingtonovy z\u00e1soby munice.<\/p>\n\n
Spiklenci \u010delili v\u00fdzv\u011b p\u0159epravit st\u0159eln\u00fd prach potichu, ani\u017e by upozornili obyvatelstvo. \u00da\u010dty se li\u0161\u00ed, ale p\u0159edpokl\u00e1d\u00e1 se, \u017ee sudy nesli nahoru do kopce a dol\u016f do Tobacco Bay, kde \u010dekala americk\u00e1 lo\u010f Lady Catherine.<\/p>\n\n
Guvern\u00e9r George James Bruere, loaj\u00e1ln\u00ed ke korun\u011b, ale sp\u0159\u00edzn\u011bn\u00fd s americky sm\u00fd\u0161lej\u00edc\u00edmi Tuckery, byl kr\u00e1de\u017e\u00ed rozzu\u0159en\u00fd. Vyslali celn\u00ed lo\u010f, aby pron\u00e1sledovala Lady Catherine, ale to se nezda\u0159ilo a Bruere z\u016fstal pon\u00ed\u017een\u00fd. Za n\u00e1jezd nebyl nikdo odsouzen a Bermudy i nad\u00e1le obchodovaly s americk\u00fdmi koloniemi po mnoho let.<\/p>\n\n
St\u0159eln\u00fd prach z Bermud dorazil do Bostonu pr\u00e1v\u011b v\u010das, aby podpo\u0159il Washingtonovy s\u00edly. Britov\u00e9, kte\u0159\u00ed nebyli schopni udr\u017eet sv\u00e9 obl\u00e9h\u00e1n\u00ed, evakuovali m\u011bsto v b\u0159eznu 1776. Bermudsk\u00e1 dod\u00e1vka st\u0159eln\u00e9ho prachu vydr\u017eela a\u017e do konce kampan\u011b a do \u010dervna, kdy byla \u00fasp\u011b\u0161n\u011b pou\u017eita k obran\u011b Charlestonu p\u0159ed britskou invaz\u00ed. Toto v\u00edt\u011bzstv\u00ed bylo z\u00e1sadn\u00ed pro zabr\u00e1n\u011bn\u00ed Brit\u016fm v potla\u010den\u00ed americk\u00e9ho povst\u00e1n\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n
N\u00e1jezd na Bermudy stoj\u00ed jako d\u016fkaz vynal\u00e9zavosti a odhodl\u00e1n\u00ed americk\u00fdch revolucion\u00e1\u0159\u016f. Zd\u016fraz\u0148uje tak\u00e9 roli nepravd\u011bpodobn\u00fdch spojenc\u016f, jako jsou Bermudy, v boji za nez\u00e1vislost. Dnes je Tucker\u016fv d\u016fm na Bermud\u00e1ch muzeem a ostrovn\u00ed n\u00e1rod z\u016fst\u00e1v\u00e1 d\u016fle\u017eit\u00fdm partnerem pro Spojen\u00e9 st\u00e1ty.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
N\u00e1jezd na Bermudy, kter\u00fd zachr\u00e1nil Americkou revoluci Americk\u00e1 revoluce Uprost\u0159ed Americk\u00e9 revoluce \u010delila kontinent\u00e1ln\u00ed arm\u00e1da gener\u00e1la George Washingtona velk\u00e9mu nedostatku st\u0159eln\u00e9ho prachu, sv\u00e9 nezbytn\u00e9 munice pro veden\u00ed v\u00e1lky proti Brit\u016fm.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[885,313,1239,1241,27,1243,1240,99,1242],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-revolution","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-bermuda","tag-henry-tucker","tag-history","tag-raid-on-bermuda","tag-gunpowder","tag-lifescienceart","tag-military-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}