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- The Fourteen
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
PODCAST
From Black Barrel Media and QCODE (media), this is Mission History. I’m Chris Wimmer, and this season we’re (telling the story of the American revolution…). Season One is proudly presented by the Historic Camden Foundation of Camden, South Carolina.
EPISODES DROP ON MONDAY’S STARTING
April 17, 2023
Episode-1
REBELLION
April 17, 2023
What began as protests over new taxes escalated into violent conflict between British soldiers and American colonists in New York and Boston.
Episode-2
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
April 17, 2023
Six months after the sporadic bloodshed in the American colonies had been officially declared a war of independence, it was not going well for the Americans.
Episode-3
TBA
April 24, 2023
When the brutal winter of 1777-1778 finally thawed and warm weather returned to America, officials in England could scarcely believe that a war in the colonies was still going.
Episode-4
THE BATTLE OF CAMDEN
May 1, 2023
After the Battle of Camden, the American cause was at a point that was as low as it had ever been. It was the second time in four months that the American army in the south had been wiped out.
Episode-5
A NEW NATION
May 8, 2023
In the next major battle, the Americans experience a total reversal. Within eight months, the major battles are done. Within a year, a peace treaty is signed. And a new independent nation is firmly established.
Episode-6
THE CAMDEN BURIALS
May 15, 2023
The burial of THE FOURTEEN with full Military Honors
Episode-7
FORENSIC GENEALOGY
Fall of 2023
The two brigades of Maryland Continentals suffered the most. All told, including officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians like drummer boys and fifers who were as young as 13 or 14, and privates, they counted more than 800 killed, captured, missing. Some of the dead were left out in the open. Others were buried in shallow graves where they fell, and in at least one instance, American soldiers were mixed with soldiers from the British army. Twelve soldiers from Maryland, several as young as 15 years old, were buried next to a North Carolina loyalist militiaman and one of Fraser’s Highlanders.
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