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Back to SearchThe Glorious Cause - All London Afloat
Season 13 Episode 8
Two months after declaring independence, George Washington faced the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever sent across an ocean — 400 ships an…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Glorious Cause - The Declaration
Season 13 Episode 7
In July of 1776, the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to do the thing there was no taking back: to declare, in writing, that the thirtee…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Glorious Cause - The Noble Train of Artillery
Season 13 Episode 6
In the winter of 1776, the American army had Boston under siege and could not break it. The heavy guns that might have broken it sat 300 miles away, …
1 year, 3 months ago
The Glorious Cause - Out of His Protection
Season 13 Episode 5
In the winter of 1775, the colonists still called themselves loyal subjects of a king they believed would protect them. Then the King’s men spent a s…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Glorious Cause - Common Sense
Season 13 Episode 4
In January 1776, the American war was 9 months old and nobody would say the word. The colonists were fighting, dying, and still hoping to be loyal Br…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Glorious Cause - The 14th Colony
Season 13 Episode 3
In the autumn of 1775, the American rebellion reached for an entire country. Congress wanted Canada as the fourteenth colony, and sent two armies nor…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Glorious Cause - An Army from Nothing
Season 13 Episode 2
In July 1775, George Washington rode into Cambridge to take command of the army that would win American independence, and found that the army did not…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Glorious Cause - Bunker Hill
Season 13 Episode 1
The British called it a victory. It nearly destroyed them. On June 17th, 1775, the King’s regulars marched up a hill outside Boston three times into …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Long Fuse - Lexington and Concord
Season 12 Episode 13
On the night of April 18th, 1775, General Gage sent 700 of his best soldiers on a secret march to seize the militia’s weapons at Concord. The plan de…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Long Fuse - The First Continental Congress
Season 12 Episode 11
In September 1774, 56 men from twelve colonies rode to Philadelphia and sat down together for the first time, strangers and rivals trying to discover…
1 year, 5 months ago