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The First Revolution - War on the Water
The season ends on the water. Virginia is split in two, and the war turns on a single captured ship; then Jamestown burns, Bacon dies of disease in a swamp at twenty-nine, and an old governor hangs so many men that the King himself is said to recoil. The revolution fails — and then the season comes due.
This finale answers the question it opened with: why does 1676 look so much like 1776 — the same grievances, the same arguments, the same willingness to take up arms — and why did it fall short where the later revolution would succeed? Four reasons, each necessary, none enough alone. Along the…
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