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Back to SearchThe 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 10 months ago
The Edge of Empire - Each for itself
Season 9 Episode 7
In May 1754, a Philadelphia printer cut a snake into pieces and told his fellow colonists to join, or die. That summer, as the first shots of a world…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Edge of Empire - Ohio Country
Season 9 Episode 6
In 1737, three runners set off through the Pennsylvania woods in a rigged footrace that stripped the Lenape of a million acres — and the men who lost…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Edge of Empire - New England’s Conquest
Season 9 Episode 5
In 1745, an army of New England farmers, fishermen, and shopkeepers — not one of them a trained soldier — sailed six hundred miles north to do the im…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Edge of Empire - Expended
Season 9 Episode 4
It started with a pickled ear in a jar, held up before the House of Commons — and it ended by quietly destroying the one colony built to be different…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Edge of Empire - The Road South
Season 9 Episode 3
Before dawn on September 9th, 1739, a man named Jemmy led twenty enslaved Africans against a store on the Stono River, took the guns off its shelves,…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Edge of Empire - A Different Kind of Place
Season 9 Episode 2
By 1738 the colony of Georgia is five years old and bleeding settlers across the river to South Carolina — because Georgia, alone in British America,…
4 years, 3 months ago