The French and Indian War - Battle of Lake George
In 1755 the most powerful native confederacy on the continent was pulled into a war that was not its own — and discovered that the balance it had worked for a hundred years was beginning to fail. This...
1 Mars 202318min
The French and Indian War - Braddock's Defeat
On July 9, 1755, the largest army ever assembled in North America crossed the Monongahela River in perfect order, ten miles from its objective and certain of victory. Three hours later, two-thirds of ...
1 Mars 202324min
The French and Indian War - The Road West
In the summer of 1755, the largest army ever assembled in North America began cutting a road through the Appalachian wilderness toward a French fort at the Forks of the Ohio — and carried west, in its...
1 Mars 202325min
The Edge of Empire - Fort Necessity
In the spring of 1754, a twenty-two-year-old Virginia lieutenant colonel named George Washington marched a few hundred men into the Ohio wilderness to make good his colony’s claim to a fort the French...
25 Dec 202220min
The Edge of Empire - Each for itself
In May 1754, a Philadelphia printer cut a snake into pieces and told his fellow colonists to join, or die. That summer, as the first shots of a world war crackled in the Ohio woods, the colonies were ...
25 Dec 202217min
The Edge of Empire - Ohio Country
In 1737, three runners set off through the Pennsylvania woods in a rigged footrace that stripped the Lenape of a million acres — and the men who lost their homeland were never once asked. This is the ...
25 Dec 202217min
The Edge of Empire - New England’s Conquest
In 1745, an army of New England farmers, fishermen, and shopkeepers — not one of them a trained soldier — sailed six hundred miles north to do the impossible: take Louisbourg, the strongest fortress i...
25 Dec 202232min
The Edge of Empire - Expended
It started with a pickled ear in a jar, held up before the House of Commons — and it ended by quietly destroying the one colony built to be different. When England went to war with Spain in 1739, Gene...
25 Dec 202215min
