Hello everyone and welcome to episode 38, part four in our Revolutionary War series. We're going to dive right back into it

today, folks. Previously, we left off with General St. Ledger forming a siege around Fort Stanwyx

in central New York, where modern day Rome is. He's together with a group of Native American warriors

led by Joseph Brandt. Also, on the other

side, we have the American forces trying to hold out, and a relief column led by General

Herkimer is on its way to relieve the siege. Joining with him are several Oneida leaders and

warriors. So we're going to pick things right back up and we hope that you enjoy the show.

So St. Ledger starts the siege and he makes sure that this fort is totally encircled.

Well it's smart. If you completely surround it, you can make sure there aren't any messengers getting out and sending

for reinforcements because they have other forts that aren't that far away. You could get reinforcements

in a couple days if you get word that you need them. So they circle the whole thing and make sure

that intelligence is cut off. Now, as the fort is starting, it's kind of at a standstill, not much is going on, but there is this one very entrepreneurial guy.

He's an Iroquois sniper named Kai.

Have you heard about this guy, Caleb?

I have.

This is kind of the first time that you start to hear about riflemen and snipers.

I bet this might be one of the first times

in history. In the early 1800s, a lot of the British start to put rifle regiments in and they have

people that are actually trained to shoot accurately. But at this time, a lot of people are still

just trained in volley fire. They don't even have sights on their muskets. But this Indian Kai, he was a sniper.

Crack shot. Crack shot. He could hit a potato off a man's head at 300 yards. It's really

ridiculous. So what he does is he climbs up in a tree, loads his rifle, and he just hides in the

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