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Back to SearchThe French and Indian War - A Few Acres of Snow
Season 10 Episode 9
In the spring of 1760, two armies sat outside Quebec and stared at the river, because whoever’s ships came first would win a continent. This is the s…
3 years, 2 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Cherokee War
Season 10 Episode 8
While the British took Quebec in the north, the southern colonies fought a war almost nobody up north was watching — a brutal frontier war against th…
3 years, 2 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Plains of Abraham
Season 10 Episode 7
In 1759, the year the British Empire could not stop winning, the largest prize of all sat on a cliff in the middle of North America: Quebec, the hear…
3 years, 2 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Forks
Season 10 Episode 6
The French and Indian War began at the forks of the Ohio in 1754, and in 1758 it came home to where it started. This is the story of how the British …
3 years, 2 months ago
The French and Indian War - Pitt’s War
Season 10 Episode 5
By 1758 the British had been losing the war in America for three years. Then William Pitt took hold of it in London — and instead of bullying the col…
3 years, 6 months ago
The French and Indian War – Montcalm Ascendant
Season 10 Episode 4
By 1757 the most powerful empire on earth was losing — beaten up one side of the continent and down the other by a smaller, poorer enemy with a bette…
3 years, 6 months ago
The French and Indian War - Battle of Lake George
Season 10 Episode 3
In 1755 the most powerful native confederacy on the continent was pulled into a war that was not its own — and discovered that the balance it had wor…
3 years, 6 months ago
The French and Indian War - Braddock's Defeat
Season 10 Episode 2
On July 9, 1755, the largest army ever assembled in North America crossed the Monongahela River in perfect order, ten miles from its objective and ce…
3 years, 6 months ago
The French and Indian War - The Road West
Season 10 Episode 1
In the summer of 1755, the largest army ever assembled in North America began cutting a road through the Appalachian wilderness toward a French fort …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Edge of Empire - Fort Necessity
Season 9 Episode 8
In the spring of 1754, a twenty-two-year-old Virginia lieutenant colonel named George Washington marched a few hundred men into the Ohio wilderness t…
3 years, 8 months ago