Rebels and Redcoats: How Britain Lost America
The Shot Heard Around The World/American Crisis (#101)
The American Revolution, from the first shot in Lexington to Washington crossing the Delaware.
Education Record Rights: 1 year from each broadcast.
Program Description: With vivid dramatizations of battles, eyewitness accounts, original documents and paintings, REBELS AND REDCOATS tells the untold story of the American Revolution. Renowned British military historian Richard Holmes presents the four-part series, focusing on the military struggle -- the soldiers, leaders, tactics and strategy of this grand conflict. Told from an unusual point of view -- that of the British losers -- the series at the same time explores painful conflicts within the American populace, taking viewers inside the vicious battles of brothers, friends and families forced to choose sides between loyalist and rebels.
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Past Episodes
These episodes of Rebels and Redcoats: How Britain Lost America aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
