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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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
The Glorious Cause - An Army from Nothing
In July 1775, George Washington rode into Cambridge to take command of the army that would win American independence, and found that the army did not exist. What he had instead was a great armed crowd...
7 Apr 202528min
The Glorious Cause - Bunker Hill
The British called it a victory. It nearly destroyed them. On June 17th, 1775, the King’s regulars marched up a hill outside Boston three times into the muskets of New England farmers, and walked away...
31 Mars 202529min
