When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries overcame moments of despair, when all seemed lost, to triumph in the cause of American independence.
In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World, Benjamin L. Carp will help us look at the American Revolution differently. The Daniel M. Lyons Chair of History at Brooklyn College, Ben will use details from his book The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2023) to help us consider the strategic military importance of the city of New York and its capture by the British Army and how both armies used fire as an instrument of war.
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Ben Franklin’s World is an award-winning podcast. It’s for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our world. Each episode features an interview with a historian who shares their unique insights into our early American past. It is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
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Illustration: Franz Xaver Habermann’s imagined Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck (Representation of the terrible fire at New York, that the Americans lit during the night of September 19, 1776), ca 1776.
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