Comte de Rochambeau: The French General Who Won Yorktown
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Washington gets the monuments, but the victory at Yorktown would not have been possible w...
3 Okt 19min
Peggy Shippen: The Spy Behind Benedict Arnold's Treason at West Point
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On September 25, 1780, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton watched a young mother seemingly...
3 Okt 20min
The Penobscot Expedition: Paul Revere and America's Worst Naval Defeat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before Pearl Harbor, the worst naval disaster in American history happened in 1779 on the coast ...
3 Okt 24min
Oliver Hazard Perry: Lake Erie Hero, Bitter Rivalries and Exile
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Oliver Hazard Perry survived the Battle of Lake Erie and a pistol duel at Weehawken, only to die...
3 Okt 23min
Boston's Old North Church: Lanterns, Hurricanes and Hidden History
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Boston's Old North Church, officially Christ Church and completed in 1723, is famous for the 177...
3 Okt 19min
Nicholas Herkimer: Frontier Power Broker and the Battle of Oriskany
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the 1777 Battle of Oriskany, General Nicholas Herkimer had his leg shattered, then had himsel...
3 Okt 21min
Martha Washington: The Plantation CEO Who Invented the First Lady
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Long before the image of a grandmother in a ruffled cap, Martha Washington was a 26-year-old wid...
3 Okt 18min
Joseph Brant: The Mohawk Leader Who Navigated Two Worlds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!American revolutionaries called him Monster Brant, yet Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea, translate...
3 Okt 21min
