The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

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*Running Time => 7 hrs. and 45 mins.* A NATION IS BORN explores the pivotal moments of the American Revolutionary War through the insights of ten distinguished historians. Editor Ed Lengel compiles their narratives to illuminate how diverse groups—merchants, lawyers, farmers, and cobblers—united to challenge the formidable British Empire and its Hessian auxiliaries. The journey unfolds in the 1770s, beginning with the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, leading to the crucial year of 1776, where you experience the struggles at Brooklyn Heights and the daring crossing of the Delaware with Washington. As the narrative progresses, you follow Johnny Burgoyne through the Champlain Valley in the fall of 1777 and endure the harsh winter at Valley Forge with Washington's troops. The summer of 1778 brings the intense battle at Monmouth Courthouse, while 1780 plunges you into the brutal civil conflicts in the South, where loyalties are tested among neighbors in Georgia and the Carolinas. The climax arrives in 1781, as patriots converge in Virginia, where Washington and the French navy orchestrate a decisive trap for the British at Yorktown. This compelling account reveals the interconnected stories that forged a new nation.