The Glorious Cause - Saratoga
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 stroke. This is the story of how that army was swallowed...
4 Heinä 202526min
The Glorious Cause - Philadelphia Has Taken Howe
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 marching down from Canada that he was supposed to meet...
4 Heinä 202525min
The Glorious Cause - Victory or Death
Three days before Christmas 1776, a doctor visiting headquarters watched George Washington scratch the same two words on scraps of paper, over and over. Victory or death. Days later that was the count...
4 Heinä 202531min
The Glorious Cause - The Times That Try Men’s Souls
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 few thousand ragged and freezing men, on the far ban...
26 Touko 202524min
The Glorious Cause - All London Afloat
Two months after declaring independence, George Washington faced the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever sent across an ocean — 400 ships and 32,000 men — arriving off a city that could not b...
19 Touko 202529min
The Glorious Cause - The Declaration
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 thirteen colonies were free of their king. This is the sto...
12 Touko 202541min
The Glorious Cause - The Noble Train of Artillery
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, behind the walls of a captured fort at Ticonderoga,...
5 Touko 202528min
The Glorious Cause - Out of His Protection
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 single season proving otherwise. A Royal Navy squadr...
28 Huhti 202525min
