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Episode 6: Richard Price — The Welsh Minister Whose Pamphlet Shook Two Continents In early 1776, a Nonconformist minister in London published a pamphlet arguing that the American cause was not just politically convenient but morally necessary. It sold 180,000 copies. The British government was furious. Yale gave him an honorary doctorate alongside George Washington. His name has been almost entire...

Episode 5: Guilford Court House — The Battle You Win by Losing March 1781. Nathanael Greene faces Lord Cornwallis with an army of militia who have never stood in a formal battle line. He deploys them in a way that counts on them to run. It is not a mistake. It is a plan — and it sets in motion a chain of events that leads directly to Yorktown. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...

Episode 4: Jack Sisson — The Soldier Who Captured a General July 1777. Forty men. Five whaleboats. A darkened bay full of British warships. And a mission to capture the commanding British general in Rhode Island from a farmhouse behind enemy lines. The most audacious raid of the Revolutionary War — and the enslaved man who made it possible. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss th...

Episode 3: Lydia Darragh — The Quaker Who Saved Washington's Army December 1777. British officers requisition a Philadelphia woman's back room for a secret meeting and order her family to bed. She goes to her room. She does not sleep. What she hears — and what she does about it in the next forty-eight hours — may have changed the course of the war. This is a public episode. If you would like to di...

Benedict Arnold — before the treason, before the disgrace — spent the summer of 1776 building a navy from nothing on a wilderness lake. Then he used it to fight a battle he knew he would lose. The story of how losing that battle may have saved the entire Revolution. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit friendsofli...

April 19, 1775: shots fired at Lexington and Concord. Within hours, two ships are racing toward London — one carrying the British general’s version of events, one carrying the American version. The first battle of the American Revolution didn’t end on a battlefield. It ended in the newspapers of London. And a Salem sea captain named John Derby won it. ++++ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNWKH...

Friends of Liberty is the podcast for people who want the full story of the American Revolution — not just the famous names, but the spies, soldiers, radicals, and forgotten heroes who made independence possible. Three episodes a week, seven to ten minutes each, produced by First Inning Press and written by historian Jim Stovall. Stories you won't hear anywhere else. Beginning Monday, May 4. Subsc...

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