Patriots invade East Florida in hopes of capturing the colony and eliminating the British threat from St. Augustine. The small and divided force is massacred at Thomas Creek as they retreat back to Georgia. Meanwhile the fighting between Georgia's political leader, Button Gwinnett and Continental General Lachlan McIntosh leads to a duel.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia, by Harvey Jackson, III.
Online Recommendation of the Week: Button! by Stephen Colbert and Lin-Manuel Miranda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFeQSBZUSk
ARP169 Articles of Confederation
ARP168 Forts Mercer and Mifflin
AR-SP02 Author Kurt Avard on his book "First, Do No Harm"
ARP167 Defending the Delaware
ARP166 Surrender at Saratoga
ARP165 Bemis Heights (2nd Saratoga)
ARP164 Forts Clinton and Montgomery
AR-SP01 Dr. Ronald Gibbs on Medical Care and the Revolution
ARP163 Germantown
ARP162 Raid on Fort Ticonderoga
ARP161 Freeman's Farm (First Saratoga)
ARP160 Paoli Massacre & Fall of Philadelphia
ARP159 Battle of the Clouds
ARP158 Battle of Brandywine
ARP157 British Landing and Cooch's Bridge
ARP156 The Siege of Fort Henry
Episode 155 The Battle of Bennington
Episode 154 John Stark Raises an Army
Episode 153 Staten Island and Setauket
Episode 152 Fort Stanwix and Oriskany
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