Friday, February 6 at 9:40pm on MPT: The Soul of All America
After Valley Forge and Monmouth, the French-American alliance changes the war and moves it to other theaters. Navies battle off England and in the Caribbean, while armies advance in Indian Country and the South. The British take Charleston.
The war drags on and moves to new theaters: at sea, in Indian Country, and in the South.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary from Ken Burns.
About the program
Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations and forever change the world.