The Glorious Cause - All London Afloat

American Political History · May 19, 2025 · 29m

Two months after declaring independence, George Washington faced the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever sent across an ocean — 400 ships and 32,000 men — arriving off a city that could not be defended. This is the story of the New York campaign of 1776: the catastrophe at the Battle of Long Island, where General Howe marched his army through an unguarded pass in the dark and rolled up the American line at dawn; the doomed, magnificent stand of a few hundred Maryland soldiers that bought the army its escape; and the night the Continental Army slipped across a mile of water under the…