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Revolutionary War - Yorktown

Season 12 Episode 21

General Washington will lead his army to siege General Cornwallis at Yorktown, provoking another English's army to surrender just a day before Genral…

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Revolutionary War - Defense in Depth

Season 12 Episode 20

At the battle of Hana's cow pens, the whole revolution will change when General Morgan devises and implements a militia strategy that defeats an Engl…

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Revolutionary War - The Hornets Nest

Season 12 Episode 19

General Cornwallis will comment, it seems the war between the English and the continentals is but a side show to the partisan war raging within the s…

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Independence - It Is All Over

Season 14 Episode 10

Yorktown did not end the American Revolution. It ended the will to fight it — and that will broke not in Virginia but in London, and then in a rented…

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Independence - Yorktown

Season 14 Episode 9

In October 1781, two armies closed a ring around a British force dug in at a Virginia tobacco port — and the American Revolution reached the field wh…

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Independence - Two Volleys

Season 14 Episode 7

After Charleston and Camden, the Continental Army in the South was a wreck — and George Washington sent it a limping Rhode Island foundryman named Na…

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Independence - Naval Superiority

Season 14 Episode 8

The most important battle of the American Revolution was fought without a single American in it. In September 1781, everything came down to one fact …

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Independence - The King’s Friends

Season 14 Episode 6

History is written by the winners, and the winners of the American Revolution wrote the Loyalists down as a handful of rich cowards. The truth was la…

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Independence - Tarleton’s Quarter

Season 14 Episode 5

On May 29th, 1780, on a road in the Carolina backcountry, Banastre Tarleton’s cavalry cut down hundreds of Virginia Continentals as they threw down t…

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Independence - The Swamp Fox

Season 14 Episode 4

In August 1780, the “Hero of Saratoga,” General Horatio Gates, marched the last American army in the South to Camden — and lost it in a single mornin…

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