Independence - A War to Win
In June 1778, a barefoot Connecticut private named Joseph Plumb Martin marched out of Valley Forge and, for the first time in the war, toward the enemy. This is the story of the moment the American Re...
4 Juli 202529min
The Glorious Cause - The Alliance
On the evening of February 6th, 1778, four men signed two treaties by a fire in a Paris apartment, and a colonial rebellion became a world war. This is the story of the French alliance — the single gr...
4 Juli 202525min
The Glorious Cause - Doctor Franklin in Paris
In the winter of 1776, a 70-year-old man in a fur cap stepped off a ship in France with the fate of the American Revolution resting on his shoulders. This is the story of how Benjamin Franklin won Fra...
4 Juli 202528min
The Glorious Cause - Valley Forge
On December 19th, 1777, the beaten Continental Army marched into Valley Forge, many of the men barefoot, leaving blood on the frozen ground. This is the story of the winter that nearly killed the Amer...
4 Juli 202528min
The Glorious Cause - Saratoga
In June of 1777, General John Burgoyne led a British army south from Canada to cut New England out of the war and end the rebellion in a single stroke. This is the story of how that army was swallowed...
4 Juli 202526min
The Glorious Cause - Philadelphia Has Taken Howe
In the summer of 1777, General William Howe put 15,000 men on ships and sailed away from the Hudson River — and away from the second British army marching down from Canada that he was supposed to meet...
4 Juli 202525min
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 Juli 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 Maj 202524min
