In 1756 the Colony of Pennsylvania was at war. With the incursion of the French, the Western Delaware peoples of the Ohio Country raided and burned the frontier villages of William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom. Although the colonial government was staunchly Quaker and did not believe in a standing army, the efforts of Benjamin Franklin rallied the province into action. In September of 1756 Colonel John Armstrong led 300 frontiersmen into the wilderness to raid and destroy the Delaware village of Kittanning. Although celebrated at the time, modern historians question the Kittanning Raid’s true motivations and effectiveness. On this episode we discuss the Kittanning Raid of 1756.
S03 Mid Season Break
S03E10: 1776: Trenton, Princeton, and Washington's Crossing
S03E09: 1775: Bunker Hill and Quebec
S03E08: Lexington and Concord
S03E07: The First Continental Congress
S03E06: Lord Dunmore's War, 1774.
S03E05: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
S03E04: Taxes, Taxes, Taxes...The Sugar and Stamp Acts
S03E03: The Paxton Boys and Black Boys Rebellion
S03E02: Pontiac's Rebellion and the Indian Insurgency of 1763
S03E01: 1763, the Birth of a Revolution
S02E16: Q and A Season Two Wrap Up
S02E15: The 300 Spartans, Thermopylae, and Xerxes I
S02E14: The Persian Wars: The First Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
S02E13: Athens, Sparta, and Classical Greece
S02E12: The Mycenaeans-The First Greeks
S02E11: Atlantis Found? The Lost Civilization of the Minoans
S02E10: Darius and the Persian Conquest
S02E09: Cyrus the Great and the Rise of Persia
S02E08: The Babylonian Empire
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