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Back to SearchCommittees of Correspondence: The Network Behind the Revolution
Episode 13310
How do you coordinate a rebellion across 13 colonies without phones, internet or reliable roads? This episode explores the committees of corresponden…
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Lexington and Concord: The Secret Raid That Started a Revolution
Episode 13309
On April 19, 1775, General Thomas Gage sent about 700 British troops on a secret raid to destroy colonial supplies at Concord, but the colonists knew…
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Charles Cornwallis: From Yorktown Defeat to Empire's Fixer
Episode 13308
Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, yet instead of disgrace he became a Knight of the Garter, Governor-General of India, and Lord Lieutenant …
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Battle of Great Bridge: The 25-Minute Fight That Freed Virginia
Episode 13307
In December 1775, a 25-minute shootout on a narrow causeway through the Great Dismal Swamp ended British royal authority in Virginia. British losses …
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No Taxation Without Representation: History of a Revolutionary Idea
Episode 13306
The slogan no taxation without representation first appeared in print not in Boston but in a 1768 London Magazine headline. This episode traces the i…
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Bernardo de Galvez: The Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
Episode 13305
Only eight people have ever received honorary U.S. citizenship, and one of them, added in 2014, is a Spanish nobleman most Americans have never heard…
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Washington Crossing the Delaware: From History to American Myth
Episode 13304
What does a freezing December night in 1776 have in common with an 1851 art blockbuster and a 1953 painting? They all share the same five words: Wash…
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The Declaration of Independence: Treason, Politics and Paradox
Episode 13303
Signing the Declaration of Independence was legally an act of high treason, punishable by hanging, drawing and quartering. This episode strips away t…
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Henry Knox: Bookseller, Artillery Chief and Flawed Founder
Episode 13302
Henry Knox rose from a nine-year-old school dropout working in a Boston bookstore to Washington's chief of artillery and the first Secretary of War, …
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Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery to Boston
Episode 13301
In the winter of 1775, the survival of the Continental Army was handed to a 25-year-old Boston bookseller. This episode follows Henry Knox's 300-mile…
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