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Back to SearchWars Within Wars - The Sixth Nation
Season 8 Episode 6
John Lawson knew the Tuscarora better than almost any Englishman alive. He had walked their country, written the finest book yet penned about the nat…
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - Assault on Florida
Season 8 Episode 5
In 1702 the governor of Carolina took an army south to seize the oldest city in America — and came home in disgrace, his ships burned, his name ruine…
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - Indian Country
Season 8 Episode 4
Four hundred miles from the coast, an English trader winters in a town that will never see an English soldier — selling guns, buying deerskins and hu…
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - The Great Peace
Season 8 Episode 3
In October 1690, a Boston man stood blindfolded before the governor of New France and gave him one hour to surrender Canada — to an army that belonge…
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - One Fire
Season 8 Episode 2
In the late summer of 1684, a French royal army sat starving on the shore of Lake Ontario — and an Onondaga orator walked into its camp and dictated …
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - Left to Themselves
Season 8 Episode 1
On a frozen leap-day morning in 1704, a French and Native war party came over the palisade of a sleeping Massachusetts town, and New England’s most f…
4 years, 1 month ago
By What Authority - The Fortunate Revolution.
Season 7 Episode 8
The Dominion of New England did not fall because the colonies resisted it. It fell because the king who built it lost his throne in a single winter. …
4 years, 1 month ago
By What Authority - Holy Experiment
Season 7 Episode 7
In 1670 a London jury was locked up without food, water, or heat and ordered to convict a young Quaker named William Penn. They refused — and the rul…
4 years, 4 months ago
By What Authority - The Inner Light
Season 7 Episode 6
In 1659 a woman stood on the gallows on Boston Common with a rope around her neck — and was cut down alive at the last moment, by a reprieve her son …
4 years, 4 months ago
By What Authority - The Dominion
Season 7 Episode 5
In 1683, in a colony that had never held an election, under an Irish Catholic governor appointed by a Catholic duke, New York — of all colonies — wro…
4 years, 4 months ago