As the cost of war takes its toll in England, group of voters in Yorkshire create an Association to question the King's role in running the Government. A mob burns London to protest wartime laws allowing granting Catholics additional rights, including that of enlistment in the Army.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780, by Christopher Hibbert
Online Recommendation of the Week: A state of the representation of the people of England, on the principles of Mr. Pitt in 1785; with an annexed state of additional propositions, by the Rev. Christopher Wyvill: https://archive.org/details/stateofrepresent00wyvi
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Episode 138 Battle of Thomas Creek
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Episode 136 Franklin in Paris
Episode 135 The Danbury Raid
Episode 134 The Battle of Bound Brook
Episode 133 The Peekskill Raid
Episode 132 Britain Adjusts its War Plans
Episode 131 Congress - Baltimore Edition
Episode 130 Fort McIntosh, Georgia
Episode 129 Prisoners of War
Episode 128 Fort Independence
Episode 127 The Forage War
Episode 126 The Battle of Princeton
Episode 125 Second Battle of Trenton
Episode 124 Back Across the Delaware
Episode 123 First Battle of Trenton
Episode 122 Crossing the Delaware
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