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Season 9 Episode 1
A generation after the Yamasee War nearly destroyed it, South Carolina has become something new on the American mainland: the first colony where the …
4 years, 3 months ago
Wars Within Wars - Borrowed Guns
Season 8 Episode 9
France built the opposite of Carolina. Where the English ran their frontier through free-lance traders who cheated and enslaved the nations they live…
4 years, 3 months ago
Wars Within Wars - Carolina Remade
Season 8 Episode 8
South Carolina had won its battles and was still losing its war. Eight months after the Good Friday massacre, the colony was ringed, starving, and un…
4 years, 3 months ago
Wars Within Wars - The Good Friday Massacre
Season 8 Episode 7
South Carolina in 1715 was not a colony of farms — it was a trading firm with a coastline, running the largest deerskin and Indian-slave operation in…
4 years, 3 months ago
Wars 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago