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
The Glorious Cause - The Alliance
On the evening of February 6th, 1778, four men signed two treaties by a fire in a Paris apartment, and a colonial rebellion became a world war. This is the story of the French alliance — the single gr...
4 Jul 202525min
The Glorious Cause - Doctor Franklin in Paris
In the winter of 1776, a 70-year-old man in a fur cap stepped off a ship in France with the fate of the American Revolution resting on his shoulders. This is the story of how Benjamin Franklin won Fra...
4 Jul 202528min
The Glorious Cause - Valley Forge
On December 19th, 1777, the beaten Continental Army marched into Valley Forge, many of the men barefoot, leaving blood on the frozen ground. This is the story of the winter that nearly killed the Amer...
4 Jul 202528min
