American Revolution Podcast
We look at the founding era of the United States, beginning with the French and Indian War, and moving through the era chronologically.
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A chronological history of the Revolutionary War era. We begin our journey with an overview of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War in Europe. Episodes continue with coverage of the tax protests. Shortly after King George III takes the throne, Parliament begins imposing taxes on the colonies, including the stamp tax, the Townshend Acts, and the Tea Act of 1774. Under call of ”taxation without representation, the colonists fight back. Various pre-war conflicts include the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea party, led by men such as John Hancock and Samuel Adams. They also submit numerous petitions to London. The British government responds with increasingly militant efforts to suppress the protests, eventually leading the imposition of the Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts, which attempt to remove many of the colonies’ traditional powers of self-government. The Americans respond by establishing the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. This is a meeting of colonial delegates to discuss responses to Parliament’s actions. The Congress submits a petition to the King with an agreement to meet the following spring to discuss trade boycotts if a compromise is not reached. Before the Second Continental Congress can meet, British General Thomas Gage, who is also Governor of Massachusetts, send British Regulars to capture militia cannons suspected to be in Concord. Along the way, British soldiers fire on Minutemen and other militia at Lexington Greene. Having been warned by Paul Revere, the minutemen had turned out with their muskets. The British continue to Concord, but find little. Colonists fire on soldiers at the old North Bridge, resulting a running battle all the way back to Boston. The Siege of Boston begins as colonists surround the city. The British capture Bunker Hill, but can do little else. American patriots across the country begin to act against British officials. Americans take casualties, including General Joseph Warren, but the British take far more. A group of Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga in New York. By the time the Second Continental Congress meets in May 1775, a full on rebellion has begun. The Continental Congress forms the Continental Army and places George Washington in command. Washington is able to break the siege in 1776 by having Henry Knox bring a train of cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to place on Dorchester Heights. The new British commander, General William Howe, is forced to evacuate Boston and retreat to Halifax in Nova Scotia. The Americans, having expelled British forces from most of their territory draft and sign the Declaration of Independence, making July 4 the date of American independence. Months later, General Howe and his brother Admiral Richard Howe, invade New York, capturing Long Island and Manhattan. The Continental army retreats and almost collapses. By late December 1776, the British have captured most of New Jersey. In desperation, on Christmas night 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware River with his army to attack an outpost of Hessians at Trenton. The victory forces the British to send a larger army to attack, but Washington eludes them and attacks Princeton. Over ten crucial days, the Americans recapture New Jersey and give hope to the patriots. The following year, 1777, known as the year of the hangman, the British launch an attack from Quebec into New York, taking Ticonderoga. General John Burgoyne hopes to link up with the British in New York City. However, Benedict Arnold, defying General Horatio Gates, manages, to block the army forcing the surrender at Saratoga. General Howe, sails his army to the Chesapeake, landing at Head of Elk Maryland. He moves north in what becomes known as the Philadelphia Campaign, defeating the Americans at the Battle of Brandywine, then occupying Philadelphia. The Americans fail to expel the British at the Battle of Germantown, then retreat to Valley Forge for the winter. Over the winter of 177-78. Congress considers removing General Washington in what becomes known as the Conway Cabal. The Marquis de Lafayette helps to ensure Washington remains in command. General Frederick von Steuben takes over as the army’s Adjutant General and trains the Americans in professional battlefield tactics, even writing a drill manual for the Continental Army. The following spring, after Washington relieves General Charles Lee, the Americans fight the British to a draw at the Battle of Monmouth. Following the news of the American victory at Saratoga, and thanks to diplomatic efforts by Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin, the Comte de Vergennes convinces King Louis XVI of France to sign a treaty of alliance with the US. This forces Britain to declare war on France. In 1778 the Lord Germain recalled General Howe, leaving General Sir Henry Clinton in command of forces in North America. Clinton obeys orders to withdraw from Philadelphia back to New York. He is forced to redeploy much of the British army to the West Indies and other parts of the Empire to fight the French. Britain sends the Carlisle Peace Commission to negotiate and end to the war, but the Americans will accept nothing less than independence. The Revolution becomes a World War. In 1779 the British capture Savannah, Georgia as part of a southern strategy, invading from British East Florida. The Americans wipe out Native American villages in upstate New York as part of the Sullivan Campaign. John Paul Jones threatens Britain directly with costal raids, and the naval battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis. Spain joins France in a treaty and goes to war with Britain. The Spanish primarily want to recover Gibraltar. Other European powers form the League of Armed Neutrality. In 1780, Sir Henry Clinton leads an armada to capture Charleston, South Carolina. Continental General Benjamin Lincoln surrenders an army of 5000. Clinton leaves General Charles Cornwallis in command of the southern strategy. Lord Cornwallis secures South Carolina and attempts to move the war into North Carolina. The Continental Congress ends General Gates to lead a southern army to oppose Cornwallis. However Gates is defeated at the battle of Camden. Only local leaders such as Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, and Charles Sumter, the Gamecock, keep a fight that disputes control of the colony. Washington then sends General Nathanael Greene to take command in the south. The Battles of King’s Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse, with smaller skirmishes, reduce Cornwallis’ army, which must eventually retreat into Virginia. The British ministry becomes more desperate. Prime Minister Lord North attempts to resign repeatedly, but the King will not accept his resignation. Britain declares war on the Netherlands and continues its fight. The Continentals have their own crises. The Pennsylvania and New Jersey lines mutiny. Benedict Arnold commits treason, joining the British with an attempt to give them West Point. In the end though, Washington’s Continentals with the French army under General Rochambeau force Lord Cornwallis to surrender his army at Yorktown. The British begin serious negotiations for peace. The peace process takes more than a year, finally ending with the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. The Continental Army disbands, forming the first veterans group: the Society of Cincinnati. Washington returns to Mount Vernon. Northern states end slavery but the southern states do not. A weak government continues under the Articles of Confederation. However, Shays’ Rebellion and other matters convince American leaders they need a stronger government. Delegates meet in Philadelphia in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention. Delegates included Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. George Washington serves as the Convention’s president. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are in Europe working as diplomats. Debate on ratification is fierce, proponents write the Federalist papers in support. Opponents demand a Bill of Rights, which proponents agree to add as Amendments once ratified. The Constitution is adopted, and the first US Congress meets in New York in 1789. Washington is sworn is as president. He must suppress the Whiskey Rebellion and other challenges while building the first government. A compromise agrees that the government will assume all state war debts and that it will move to a new capital in Washington, DC. T The government moves temporarily to Philadelphia, but does not have Washington, DC ready until near the end of John Adams’ administration. The French revolution begins, dividing Americans. Washington remains neutral as his friend Lafayette helps to replace the King of France. John Adams replaces Washington as President in 1797, with Jefferson as his Vice President. Following the XYZ Affair, the US almost goes to war with France in the Quasi War. Following passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, Adams loses reelection and Jefferson becomes President. The US makes the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark to explore the territory. James Madison succeeds Jefferson. Americans fight the Battle of Tippecanoe against Native tribes. They also fight the War of 1812, ending with Andrew Jackson’s victory in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
We look at the founding era of the United States, beginning with the French and Indian War, and moving through the era chronologically.
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
French Minister Conrad Gerard is replaced by Anne-César de La Luzerne.
Congress realizes it needs more allies in Europe, as well as access to more cash loans. Congress gives Benjamin Franklin complete control over negotiations with France. It also appoints John Adams to negotiate a treaty with Great Britain, and John Jay as minster to Spain.
Congress also appoints Henry Laurens as Minster to the Netherlands. However Laurens is captured en route and sent to the Tower of London.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The American Revolution and the French Alliance, by William C. Stinchcombe (or view on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Despatches and instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gérard, 1778-1780; correspondence of the first French minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes, https://archive.org/details/despatchesinstru00fran
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Arms, Country and Class; The Philadelphia Militia and the “Lower Sort” during the American Revolution, by Steven Roswurm.(or read on archive.org)
Online Recommendation of the Week: James Wilson - Nation Builder: https://archive.org/details/jameswilsonnatio00alex
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Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
London is deeply divided in 1779 over courts martial of top naval officers and Parliamentary hearings with General Howe and Burgoyne over the loss of the army at Saratoga. Irish militia also hold demonstrations over war-related trade restrictions.
Politicians in London begin turning toward plans to cut their losses and end the war in America. Only King George III seems to remain rigidly against independence. He uses his influence to keep war hawks in power and encourage continuation of the war effort.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Last King of America, by Andrew Roberts.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The narrative of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe in a committee of the House of Commons: https://archive.org/details/cihm_20614
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Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
At the request of the prosecution, Arnold must wait for months to defend himself against charges. The court dismisses two of the four charges, but orders General Washington to reprimand Arnold for the other two charges. After receiving the reprimand, Arnold resumes his secret correspondence with the British.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life, by Joyce Lee Malcom
Online Recommendation of the Week: Proceedings of a general court martial for the trial of Major General Arnold: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen00arno
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Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Over the winter of 1779-80, the Continental Army endures its most difficult winter of the war at Morristown, New Jersey.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Uncertain Revolution: Washington and the Continental Army at Morristown, by John T. Cunningham
Online Recommendation of the Week: Life of Israel Putnam ("Old Put"), Major-General in the Continental Army, by Increase Tarbox https://archive.org/details/lifeofisraelputn00tarb
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Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
The British Army in North American must content for resources with the widening global war. General Clinton consolidates his armies in order to send an expedition against Charleston.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Cornwallis and the War of Independence, by Franklin and Mary Wickwire.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Marriot Arbutnot (More than Nelson): https://morethannelson.com/officer/marriot-arbuthnot
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Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Increasing difficulties in recruiting soldiers forces Congress to compel states to conscript soldiers for the 1780 campaign, leading to complaints of a standing army.
Pennsylvania passes the first state law abolishing slavery over time. While the law begins the process, it would not lead to a single slave being freed under the law until 1808.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North, by Arthur Zilversmit (or read on Archive.org)
Online Recommendation of the Week: Kestnbaum, Meyer "Citizenship and Compulsory Military Service: The Revolutionary Origins of Conscription in the United States.” Armed Forces & Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2000, pp. 7–36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45346398
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Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
The Continental and British Armies make use of the fact that New York Harbor froze over during the winter of 1779-80. Both armies send raiding parties across the ice to attack enemy outposts.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Diary of a common soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 : an annotated edition of the military journal of Jeremiah Greenman, or read on archive.org.
Online Recommendation of the Week: “Wilhelm, Baron Innhausen and Knyphausen” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1892: https://archive.org/details/jstor-20083482
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Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
In January 1780 Britain send a relief fleet to resupply its garrison at Gibraltar. The Garrison had been under siege for six months by the Spanish Army and Navy.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History, by Roy and Lesley Adkins.
Online Recommendation of the Week: A History Of The Siege Of Gibraltar (1779-1783), by John Drinkwater, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109526
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Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Russia's Catherine the Great declares the right of neutral countries to continue commerce with combatant nations. Russia is joined by several other European powers, who form the League of Armed Neutrality. Britain refuses to accept the terms of the declaration, further isolating itself from most of the powers of Europe.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie, 2012
Online Recommendation of the Week: Carpenter, William S. “The United States and the League of Neutrals of 1780.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/2188285
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Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
In 1780, Colonel Steven Kemble and Captain Horatio Nelson launch an attack into the heart of New Spain, in hopes of capturing new land for the British Empire.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Sugden, John Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758–1797, Holt, 2004 (borrow on archive.org)
Online Recommendation of the Week: Kotlik, George “The British Invade Nicaragua: The San Juan Expedition” Journal of the American Revolution, September 22, 2020, https://allthingsliberty.com/2020/09/the-british-invade-nicaragua-the-san-juan-expedition
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Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
In the spring of 1780, the Marquis de Lafayette returns to America with the good news that a French army will soon follow. He finds the Continental Army on the verge of collapse, as starving soldiers consider mutiny.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution, by David A. Clary
Online Recommendation of the Week: Hatter to Hero: American Revolution Colonel Jonathan Meigs’ Incredible Story, https://www.revolutionarywarjournal.com/hatter-to-hero-american-revolution-colonel-return-jonathan-meigs-battles-of-quebec-stony-point
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Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
The British under General Henry Clinton launch a full scale invasion to capture Charleston South Carolina. It takes months to move the army into place. Meanwhile the Americans under General Benjamin Lincoln prepare to meet the attack.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Partisans and Redcoats: The southern conflict that turned the tide of the American Revolution, by Walter Edgar (or borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Carolana: The American Revolution in South Carolina: https://carolana.com/SC/Revolution/home.html
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Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
After surrounding Charleston South Carolina, British General Henry Clinton compels the Continental Army under Benjamin Lincoln to surrender. The British deny their opponents the honors of war, taking the entire defending army as prisoners of war. The surrender in May 1780 marks the greatest loss for the Americans during the course of the Revolution.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780, by Carl Borick.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Original papers relating to the siege of Charleston, 1780, by Benjamin Lincoln:
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Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
North Carolina Overmountain Men form a new government for what would become Tennessee.
A British inspired raid, primarily by disparate groups of Native warriors attack the Spanish outpost at St. Louis, and the Virginia outpost at Cahokia on May 26, 1780. Both attacks are thwarted.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The American Revolutionary War in the West, by Stephen Kling, Jr (ed) (at Ft. Plain Museum bookstore).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Dick, Jimmy “The Battle of St. Louis” Journal of the American Revolution, February 10, 2014: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/02/the-battle-of-st-louis
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Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
New York Loyalists and Iroquois warriors in Canada return to the Mohawk Valley in the Spring of 1780 to attack patriot towns and settlements.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Watt, Gavin K. For Want of His Silver Plate, Sir John Johnson's Raid of May 1780, Dundurn, 1997. (Buy at Fort Plain Bookstore)
Online Recommendation of the Week: Swiggett, Howard, War out of Niagara: Walter Butler and the Tory Rangers,
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Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Colonel Banastre Tarleton slaughters a group of escaping Continentals at Waxhaw. General Clinton's edict that all colonists must join loyalist militias convinces many paroled men to rally to patriot units commanded by leaders such as Thomas Sumter and Francis Marion. Patriots attack and massacre a loyalist regiment commanded by Christian Huck.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution, by John Oller (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Weems, Mason L. Life of Gen'l Francis Marion, (originally published 1809): https://archive.org/details/lifeofgenlfranci00weem
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Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
As the cost of war takes its toll in England, group of voters in Yorkshire create an Association to question the King's role in running the Government. A mob burns London to protest wartime laws allowing granting Catholics additional rights, including that of enlistment in the Army.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780, by Christopher Hibbert
Online Recommendation of the Week: A state of the representation of the people of England, on the principles of Mr. Pitt in 1785; with an annexed state of additional propositions, by the Rev. Christopher Wyvill: https://archive.org/details/stateofrepresent00wyvi
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Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
While awaiting General Clinton's return from Charleston, New York's commanding officer, Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen launches a raid into New Jersey, fighting the Americans at the town of Connecticut Farms. Also, Navy Captain James Nicholson of the Trumbull, tangles with the British Privateer Watt.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield, 1780, by Edward Lengel.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major-General in the Army of the United States during the Revolution: with selections from his correspondence, By Wm Duer: https://archive.org/details/lifeofwilliamale00duerw
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Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
After British General Henry Clinton returns from South Carolina in June 1780, he launches a multi-pronged attack into New Jersey with the hope of finishing off the Continental Army. General Nathanael Greene makes use of limited Continental forces and local militia to protect the headquarters at Morristown. The British manage only to burn the village of Springfield before withdrawing back to New York.
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Book Recommendation of the Week:
The Forgotten Victory: The Battle for New Jersey - 1780, by Thomas Fleming (or borrow on Archive.org)
Online Recommendation of the Week:
Sobol, Thomas T. “William Maxwell, New Jersey’s Hard Fighting General” Journal of the American Revolution, August 15, 2016. https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/08/william-maxwell-new-jerseys-hard-fighting-general
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Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
This week a guest podcaster, Lindsey Graham of the History Daily Podcast discusses the Battle of Princeton.
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Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
General Cornwallis struggles to pacify South Carolina. Patriots crush a gathering of loyalist militia at Ramsour's Mill in North Carolina, and manage to ambush an attacking loyalist force at Cedar Springs South Carolina.
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Book Recommendation of the Week:
The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas, by John Buchanan. (borrow on Archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Runyan, Conner “Did the first Cedar Springs Skirmish Really Happen?” Journal of the American Revolution, May 12, 2016. https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/05/did-the-first-cedar-springs-skirmish-really-happen
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Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Over the summer of 1780, the British control of South Carolina is challenged by militia led by Elijah Clarke and Thomas Sumter. Britain also loses an important supply fleet to Spain.
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Book Recommendation of the Week:
From Savannah to Yorktown: the American Revolution in the South, by Henry Lumpkin (or borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina, from a British province to an independent state, Vol. 2, By David Ramsey: https://archive.org/details/historyofrevolut02rams
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Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
The French Army Arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, and prepares to assist the Continental Army, just as soon as everyone got enough resources.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution, by Tom Shachtman.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Wright, M. W. E. “What France Did for America: Memoirs of Rochambeau” The North American Review
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Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
The Continental Congress appoints General Horatio Gates to command the southern army, hoping he could lead his men to a great victory in South Carolina as he had in New York.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: De Kalb: One of the Revolutionary War's Greatest Generals, by John Beakes.
Online Recommendation of the Week: "Gates at Camden" by John Stevens: https://archive.org/details/GatesAtCamden
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Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
General Cornwallis routes the Americans at Camden, SC, destroying a second southern army and ending the military career of Horatio Gates.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History, by Jim Piecuch.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Lynch, Wayne “Unluck or Inept? Gates at Camden” Journal of the American Revolution, May 1, 2014: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/05/unlucky-or-inept-gates-at-camden
“Winner or Runner? Gates at Camden” Journal of the American Revolution, April 8, 2014: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/04/winner-or-runner-gates-at-camden
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Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
British Colonel Banastre Tarleton attacks a larger forcer under General Thomas Sumter at Fishing Creek. The British kill or scatter the surprised militia.
At the same time, a force under Colonels Isaac Shelby and Elijah Clarke lead a larger loyalist force into an ambush near Musgrove Mill. The continued fighting leads both sides to engage in increased savagery against the enemy and civilians.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country, by James Swisher (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Tarleton, Banastre A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America, London: T. Cadell 1787.
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Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
While the British had secured Augusta, Georgia after taking South Carolina, the Americans launch a raid on the two while the British are trying to establish a military alliance with the local native warriors.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Georgia and the Revolution, by Ronald G Killion (read on Archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, by Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofg00john
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Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Virginians under George Rogers Clark cross the Ohio River in late 1780 to destroy the Indian communities at Chillicothe and Piqua.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities, by Colin G. Calloway.
Online Recommendation of the Week: George Rogers Clark and the Shawnee Expedition of 1780 http://npshistory.com/series/symposia/george_rogers_clark/1991-1992/sec1.htm
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Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
General Washington delays his first meeting with French General Rochambeau, as he attempts to raise enough troops to launch a joint offensive. The two men finally meet at Hartford, Connecticut in September, 1780.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Rochambeau: Washington’s Ideal Lieutenant, by Jini Jones Vail.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The French in America During the War of Independence of the United States 1777-1783: https://archive.org/details/frenchinamericad00thom
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Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
General Benedict Arnold makes plans to take over West Point. His intent was turn over the important military base to the British when he went over to the other side.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Hero and A Spy: The Revolutionary War Correspondence of Benedict Arnold, by Russel Lea
Online Recommendation of the Week: History of West Point and its military importance during the American Revolution, by Edward Boynton: https://archive.org/details/historyofwestpoi00inboyn
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Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
British Adjutant General Major John André meets with Continental Major General Benedict Arnold to discuss turning over West Point in Sept. 1780.
André is captured as he returns to British Lines, Arnold learns that the plot is exposed and flees just as an unsuspecting General George Washington is riding to Arnold's headquarters.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: The Traitor and the Spy, by James Flexner.
Online Recommendation of the Week: An authentic narrative of the causes which led to the death of Major Andre, adjutant-general of His Majesty's forces in North America, by Joshua Hett Smith: https://archive.org/details/authenticnarrati00smit/mode/2up
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Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
After Benedict Arnold's treason is exposed in the fall of 1780, The Continentals must determine the extent of the conspiracy, and deal with the captured British Prisoner, John André, Adjutant General of the British Army.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Life of John André: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold, by D.A.B. Arnold
Online Recommendation of the Week: Podcast Interview with D.A.B. Arnold on execution of John André: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/podcast/executing-major-john-andre-with-dab-ronald
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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Author Salina Baker is writing a book called The Line of Splendor, a historically-accurate novel about the life of Major General Nathanael Greene. I spoke with Ms. Baker about the life of Nathanael Greene.
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Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
The British under General Cornwallis find advancing into North Carolina much more difficult than expected. General Alexander Leslie tries to provide a distraction in the Chesapeake. Major Patrick Ferguson takes up a position near King's Mountain.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Loyalists in North Carolina, by Robert DeMond (borrow on Archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Coleraine, George (ed) The life, adventures, and opinions of Col. George Hanger London: J. Debbit, 1801: https://archive.org/details/lifeadventuresop01cole
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Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
The Overmountain Men confront loyalists under the command of Major Patrick Ferguson at King's Mountain.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts, by Robert Dunkerly
Online Recommendation of the Week: Draper, Lyman C. King's Mountain and its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It, 1881: https://archive.org/details/cu31924032752846
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Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
I speak with author Norman Poser about his new book: From the Battlefield to the Stage: The Many Lives of General John Burgoyne.
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Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Canada's Governor Frederick Haldimand sends raiding parties into upstate New York in the fall of 1780.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Burning of the Valleys: Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780, by Gavin K. Watt
Online Recommendation of the Week: Sir Frederick Haldimand, by Jean N. Mcilwraith: https://archive.org/details/sirfrederickhald017482mbp
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Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Loyalist forces continue their campaign of destruction across the Mohawk Valley in the fall of 1780. They defeat an American force Under Colonel John Brown at Stone Arabia, then fight another battle with American militia later that same day at Klock's Field. Following the battles, they continue their withdrawal back to Canada.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Enemy Harassed: Washington's New Jersey Campaign of 1777, by Jim Stempel
Online Recommendation of the Week: Warfare in the Mohawk Valley ; Transcribed from the Pennsylvania Gazette 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783 https://archive.org/details/warfareinmohawkv00efne
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Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Colonel Augustin Mottin de la Balme attempts to rally French-Canadian settlers in an attempt to take control of Detroit. Along the way, he confronts the Miami Indians, led by Chief Little Turtle.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Life and Times of Little Turtle: First Sagamore of the Wabash, by Harvey L. Carter.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Little Turtle: 1752-1812: https://archive.org/details/chieflittleturtle1960
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Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
After the southern Continental Army is wiped out at the battle of Camden in late 1780, local leaders, such as Colonel Francis Marion, keep the war alive in South Carolina with guerilla tactics.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Swamp Fox: The Life and Campaigns of General Francis Marion, by Robert D. Bass.
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Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
General Thomas Sumter escapes an attempt to kill him at Fishdam Ford, and captures the British officer sent to take him. Shortly afterward, Sumter defeats the Notorious Colonel Banastre Tarleton and Blackstock's Plantation.
We also cover the Lynch Creek Massacre, and skirmishes at Rugeley's Mill and Halfway Swamp as the Americans keep the fight alive in South Carolina.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Gamecock: The Life and Campaigns of General Thomas Sumter, by Robert Bass
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Partisan War: the South Carolina Campaign of 1780-1782, by Russell Weigley: https://archive.org/details/partisanwarsouth0000unse
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Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Major General Nathanael Greene takes command of the southern army in December 1780. General Horatio Gates heads home, leaving a decimated and demoralized army. Greene, supported by Major Generals Von Steuben and Greenwood, along with General Daniel Morgan, divides his forces and prepares to fight a guerilla war in the Carolinas against the British under General Charles Cornwallis. Morgan begins the new phase of the war with a massacre of loyalists near Hammond's Store in South Carolina.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution, by Gerald M. Carbone
Online Recommendation of the Week:
The Life of Nathanael Greene, by George Washington Greene:
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Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Despite stretching its military resources in an increasingly difficult war, Britain adds a third European enemy to its targets. In December 1780 Britain declares war on the Dutch Republic.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813, by Simon Schama.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Dutch Republic and the American Revolution, by Friedrich Edler: https://archive.org/details/dutchrepublic00edlerich
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Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
On January 1, 1781, the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army abandons its officers and begins marching from its winter camp in Morristown New Jersey to Philadelphia to demand release from enlistment. Several weeks later, the New Jersey line does the same.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution, by John A. Nagy
Online Recommendation of the Week: Michael Schellhammer, Journal of the American Revolution.
"Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line" https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/01/mutiny-pennsylvania-line
"Mutiny of the New Jersey Line" https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/03/mutiny-of-the-new-jersey-line
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Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
British Colonel Banastre Tarleton chases down General Daniel Morgan's force of Continentals and militia. Tarleton traps the Americans who cannot cross the river at Cowpens, South Carolina. The armies clash in a short but decisive battle.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Lawrence Babits. (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Cowpens Pamphlet by Thomas Fleming (NPS): https://archive.org/details/cowpensdownright0000flem
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Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
This is a sample of the Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast. It looks at why Canada did not join the rest of the British colonies in declaring independence.
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
In January 1781, now-British General Benedict Arnold sails for Virginia and raids its capital, Richmond.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Invasion of Virginia, 1781,
by Michael Cecere.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Arnold's invasion of Virginia, 1781, by Francis Lassiter: https://archive.org/details/arnoldsinvasiono00lass
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Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
In early 1781, the British army under General Cornwallis chases the Continentals under General Greene across North Carolina toward the Dan River and Virginia.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan, by Andrew Waters.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Peterson, Bruce L. “The Importance of a Small Skirmish During the Race to the Dan” Journal of the American Revolution, Sept. 1, 2021. https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/09/the-importance-of-a-small-skirmish-during-the-race-to-the-dan
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Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
William Clark of the Grey History Podcast, and Michael Troy of the American Revolution Podcast discuss France's role in the American Revolution, and the American response to the French Revolution.
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Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
In March 1781, General Nathanael Greene returns his Continental Army to North Carolina for a showdown with the British under General Charles Cornwallis. The two armies meet on the battlefield at Guilford Courthouse.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement, by John Maass
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, by Charles E. Hatch.
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