Britain and France had spent the prior century in almost continuous fighting. In American, Native tribes attempted to play off the two European powers against one another, while engaging in their own power struggles with neighboring tribes. Today's episode looks at the power dynamics in play before the outbreak of the French and Indian War.
For more text, pictures, maps, and sources, please visit my site at AmRevPodcast.Blogspot.com.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 099 Drafting the Declaration
Episode 098 Voting for Independence
Episode 097 A Coup in Philadelphia
Episode 096 The Battle for Sullivan's Island
Episode 095 The Battle of Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers)
Episode 094 War at Sea, Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet
Episode 093 The Dave Mathews Band Breaks Up
Episode 092 State Constitutions, Part 2
Episode 091 State Constitutions, Part 1
Episode 090 Battle of the Cedars
Episode 089: Washington Moves to New York
Episode 088 British War Plans 1776
Episode 087 Canada Spring 1776
Episode 086 The Evacuation of Boston
Episode 085 Dorchester Heights
Episode 084 The Continental Navy Raids the Bahamas
Episode 083 Continental Congress Winter 1776
Episode 082 The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
Episode 081 Common Sense
Episode 080 The Knox Expedition
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Revolutions
Ben Franklin’s World
Key Battles of the Revolutionary War
Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution
Patriot Lessons: American History and Civics (Constitution, Declaration of Independence, etc.)