Tag: Yorktown
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The Rising Sun
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Today marks the end of our run through the American Revolution, a revolution that wound up taking more than 25 years to work through, from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 to the sitting of the First Congress of the United States in 1989. It had…
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The Critical Period
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. We left off last time with the aborted Newburgh Conspiracy hatched between disgruntled continental officers and disgruntled members of Congress to strongarm the several states into granting the national government more power. But though George Washington smacked the conspiracy down before it even got off the ground, that did not…
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The Articles of Confederation
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As I said at the end of last week’s episode, the siege of Yorktown did not have to end the American War of Independence. The British still had forces in Canada and New York, in Charleston and Savannah, and the Navy sailing off the coast of North America and down…
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Yorktown
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Today we come to the end of the American War of Independence. What had started in the 1760s as a political conflict over the place of the American colonies within the British Empire had turned into a military conflict that was now dragging into its sixth year. During these years,…