The Glorious Cause - Victory or Death
Three days before Christmas 1776, a doctor visiting headquarters watched George Washington scratch the same two words on scraps of paper, over and over. Victory or death. Days later that was the count...
4 Jul 202531min
The Glorious Cause - The Times That Try Men’s Souls
By December of 1776, the American Revolution was all but over. George Washington’s army had been chased the length of New Jersey and now huddled, a few thousand ragged and freezing men, on the far ban...
26 Mai 202524min
The Glorious Cause - All London Afloat
Two months after declaring independence, George Washington faced the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever sent across an ocean — 400 ships and 32,000 men — arriving off a city that could not b...
19 Mai 202529min
The Glorious Cause - The Declaration
In July of 1776, the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to do the thing there was no taking back: to declare, in writing, that the thirteen colonies were free of their king. This is the sto...
12 Mai 202541min
The Glorious Cause - The Noble Train of Artillery
In the winter of 1776, the American army had Boston under siege and could not break it. The heavy guns that might have broken it sat 300 miles away, behind the walls of a captured fort at Ticonderoga,...
5 Mai 202528min
The Glorious Cause - Out of His Protection
In the winter of 1775, the colonists still called themselves loyal subjects of a king they believed would protect them. Then the King’s men spent a single season proving otherwise. A Royal Navy squadr...
28 Apr 202525min
The Glorious Cause - Common Sense
In January 1776, the American war was 9 months old and nobody would say the word. The colonists were fighting, dying, and still hoping to be loyal British subjects again — independence was very nearly...
21 Apr 202530min
The Glorious Cause - The 14th Colony
In the autumn of 1775, the American rebellion reached for an entire country. Congress wanted Canada as the fourteenth colony, and sent two armies north to take it: one under the reluctant ex-British o...
14 Apr 202524min
