Listen "Crossing the Delaware"
Episode Synopsis
Every nation has a moment when the story almost ends. For the American Revolution, that moment came in December of 1776. The army was shrinking. The government was running. The public was tired. Even George Washington thought the game might be nearly up. What followed was not a miracle and not a legend. It was a gamble made by exhausted men in freezing darkness, guided by bad maps, worse weather, and a single hard truth. If this failed, there was no Revolution left to save.This episode looks past the painting and into the cold reality of the Ten Crucial Days. We follow the decisions that mattered, the myths that grew afterward, and the fragile chain of events that carried the war from the edge of collapse back into motion. This is not the story we were taught to admire. It is the story we need to understand.
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