ARP329 Signing the Peace Treaty
Although major operations of the war ended in 1781, it took several more years before negotiators could work out a peace treaty. The American Peace Commissioners bickered with one another, and had to ...
29 Sep 202434min
ARP328 Cuddalore - The Last Battle
In June of 1783, British forces (not yet aware of the preliminary peace treaty that had been concluded in late 1782) attacked the Indian town of Cuddalore. The British besiege the city while a French ...
22 Sep 202433min
ARP327 Continental Instability
In the summer of 1783, disgruntled Continental soldiers march on Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee to Princeton. Washington sends the majority of the Army home, keeping only a few hundred men. Bl...
15 Sep 202433min
ARP326 Fort Carlos
British agent James Logan Colbert raises a force of western loyalists and Chickasaw Indians to attack a Spanish outpost on the Arkansas River. The Spanish garrison manages to chase off the attackers, ...
8 Sep 202433min
ARP325 Threat of Peace
The Continental Congress struggles in late 1782 and early 1783 to find a way to pay the army and its creditors for the cost of the war. It's inability to levy taxes, or convince the states to pay, res...
1 Sep 202434min
ARP324 Newburgh Conspiracy
In early 1783, all Americans await the arrival of an expected peace treaty. The Continental Officers, afraid that they will be sent home without any pay and their promised pensions, organize to challe...
18 Aug 202434min
ARP323 Evacuation of Charleston
After a few final skirmishes, the British army evacuates Charleston, SC in December 1782. They take with them thousands of loyalist militia, civilians, and slaves. The Continental Army immediately tak...
11 Aug 202432min
ARP322 Long Beach Island Massacre
In 1782 and 1783, as it becomes increasingly apparent that the British have agreed to leave the United States, loyalist officers like John Bacon of New Jersey and the Doan Brothers of Pennsylvania con...
4 Aug 202431min
