Revolutionary War Leaders
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The Battle of Red Bank: Von Donop's Downfall
VIDEO | Did the impulsive British Colonel von Donop – a man determined to regain his honor at all costs – act too impulsively during his October 1777...
Lord North: Britain's Worst Prime Minister?
VIDEO | When Lord North became Prime Minister of Britain in 1770, the protests in the Thirteen Colonies were just a minor inconvenience. But his...
Benjamin Lincoln: Revolutionary Revenge
VIDEO | Continental General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered his troops at Charleston – one of the worst American defeats in the Revolutionary War. So how...
Henry Clinton: The General who Lost America
VIDEO | For most of the Revolutionary War, General Henry Clinton was second-in-command of the British army and he had his own ideas about what...
Governing The New Republic
VIDEO | The idea of Civic Virtue was central to the Founders' vision for the new republic. It meant that leaders would truly be servants of the people...
Patrick Ferguson: The British Bulldog
VIDEO | Major Patrick ‘Bulldog’ Ferguson was one of the most fierce, and fiercely hated, British commanders of the Revolutionary War. But when he...
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