Independence - Naval Superiority
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 George Washington had preached for six years: whoev...
4 Jul 202527min
Independence - Two Volleys
After Charleston and Camden, the Continental Army in the South was a wreck — and George Washington sent it a limping Rhode Island foundryman named Nathanael Greene, who promptly did the one thing ever...
4 Jul 202531min
Independence - The King’s Friends
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 larger: as many as a fifth of Americans stayed loyal ...
4 Jul 202523min
Independence - Tarleton’s Quarter
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 their arms to surrender — and gave the southern war ...
4 Jul 202527min
Independence - The Swamp Fox
In August 1780, the “Hero of Saratoga,” General Horatio Gates, marched the last American army in the South to Camden — and lost it in a single morning, his militia breaking at the first bayonet charge...
4 Jul 202527min
Independence - The Southern Strategy
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 him free. It was the opening move of Britain’s new ...
4 Jul 202526min
Independence - The Open Field
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 House. This is the story of the day the Continenta...
4 Jul 202522min
Independence - A War to Win
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 enemy. This is the story of the moment the American Re...
4 Jul 202529min
