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Back to SearchA Failed Nation - Abolitionist
Season 13 Episode 2
Desicuss the abolitionist movement and is growth around the revolutionary era.
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A Failed Nation - Negro Soldiers
Season 13 Episode 1
We discuss the fate of negro soldiers in the revolutionary war
1 year ago
Revolutionary War - Peace
Season 12 Episode 23
On September 3rd, 1783, the definitive peace treaty was signed, by the end of 1783 all English forces had withdrawn from Colonial America.
1 year, 3 months ago
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
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 …
1 year, 3 months ago
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
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…
1 year, 3 months ago