Mrs. Mac Travels Back Podcast

Captain Johann Ewald has spent weeks chasing George Washington across New Jersey. Now, on December 1, 1776, he finds himself trading cannon fire across the Raritan River, mourning the death of a fellow officer, capturing supply boats... and then abruptly abandoning the battlefield to do something even more unexpected. He starts criticizing his own commanders. In this episode, we explore Ewald's su...

Captain Johann Ewald rides into the American Revolution with one eye, a Hessian Jäger detachment, and astonishing levels of main character energy. In this episode, we meet Ewald through his Revolutionary War journal, follow him from New York toward New Jersey in 1776, and ask why this Hessian light-infantry officer feels less like a footnote and more like the protagonist of his own extremely drama...

Meet Captain Johann Ewald: Hessian officer, light infantry specialist, one-eyed duelist, and possibly the most dramatic source in the American Revolution. In this episode of Mrs. Mac Travels Back , we begin following Ewald’s Revolutionary War journal from his voyage across the Atlantic to his first impressions of British-occupied New York. Along the way, we meet Scottish Captain John Peebles of th...