Wars Within Wars - The Good Friday Massacre
South Carolina in 1715 was not a colony of farms — it was a trading firm with a coastline, running the largest deerskin and Indian-slave operation in English America through a web of rough men who liv...
23 Heinä 202218min
Wars Within Wars - The Sixth Nation
John Lawson knew the Tuscarora better than almost any Englishman alive. He had walked their country, written the finest book yet penned about the native peoples of Carolina, and recorded, in plain wor...
23 Heinä 202214min
Wars Within Wars - Assault on Florida
In 1702 the governor of Carolina took an army south to seize the oldest city in America — and came home in disgrace, his ships burned, his name ruined, beaten by a fort made of seashell. Two years lat...
23 Heinä 202219min
Wars Within Wars - Indian Country
Four hundred miles from the coast, an English trader winters in a town that will never see an English soldier — selling guns, buying deerskins and human beings, the farthest reach of a colony into a c...
23 Heinä 202219min
Wars Within Wars - The Great Peace
In October 1690, a Boston man stood blindfolded before the governor of New France and gave him one hour to surrender Canada — to an army that belonged not to England, but to a single colony. This is t...
23 Heinä 202221min
Wars Within Wars - One Fire
In the late summer of 1684, a French royal army sat starving on the shore of Lake Ontario — and an Onondaga orator walked into its camp and dictated terms to the king’s governor. That was the Haudenos...
18 Heinä 202223min
Wars Within Wars - Left to Themselves
On a frozen leap-day morning in 1704, a French and Native war party came over the palisade of a sleeping Massachusetts town, and New England’s most famous minister woke to find warriors in his house a...
17 Heinä 202222min
By What Authority - The Fortunate Revolution.
The Dominion of New England did not fall because the colonies resisted it. It fell because the king who built it lost his throne in a single winter. This is the finale of By What Authority: the Glorio...
16 Heinä 202217min
