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Back to SearchIndependence - The Southern Strategy
Season 14 Episode 3
In December 1778, a British army took Savannah in an afternoon — guided around the American line by an enslaved man betting on which side would make …
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Independence - The Open Field
Season 14 Episode 2
On a Sunday in June 1778, in heat that killed men where they stood, Washington’s reborn army finally caught the British in the open at Monmouth Court…
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Independence - A War to Win
Season 14 Episode 1
In June 1778, a barefoot Connecticut private named Joseph Plumb Martin marched out of Valley Forge and, for the first time in the war, toward the ene…
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The Glorious Cause - The Alliance
Season 13 Episode 15
On the evening of February 6th, 1778, four men signed two treaties by a fire in a Paris apartment, and a colonial rebellion became a world war. This …
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The Glorious Cause - Doctor Franklin in Paris
Season 13 Episode 14
In the winter of 1776, a 70-year-old man in a fur cap stepped off a ship in France with the fate of the American Revolution resting on his shoulders.…
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The Glorious Cause - Valley Forge
Season 13 Episode 13
On December 19th, 1777, the beaten Continental Army marched into Valley Forge, many of the men barefoot, leaving blood on the frozen ground. This is …
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The Glorious Cause - Saratoga
Season 13 Episode 12
In June of 1777, General John Burgoyne led a British army south from Canada to cut New England out of the war and end the rebellion in a single strok…
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The Glorious Cause - Philadelphia Has Taken Howe
Season 13 Episode 11
In the summer of 1777, General William Howe put 15,000 men on ships and sailed away from the Hudson River — and away from the second British army mar…
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The Glorious Cause - Victory or Death
Season 13 Episode 10
Three days before Christmas 1776, a doctor visiting headquarters watched George Washington scratch the same two words on scraps of paper, over and ov…
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The Glorious Cause - The Times That Try Men’s Souls
Season 13 Episode 9
By December of 1776, the American Revolution was all but over. George Washington’s army had been chased the length of New Jersey and now huddled, a f…
1 year, 3 months ago