Just Living History
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Every documentary goes back to the moment before the outcome was known: what the commanders could see, what they believed, and what it cost.
2:05 Short Alexander Hamilton Stormed Yorktown Redoubt 10 at Night
2:11 Short De Grasse's Fleet Closed the Chesapeake and Trapped Cornwallis
2:11 Short Cornwallis Was Absent When His Army Surrendered at Yorktown
2:03 Short Washington Built Brick Ovens to Hide the March to Yorktown
17:35 Yorktown Explained: How Washington and de Grasse Trapped Cornwallis in 1781
2:16 Why Hannibal Won Cannae but Didn't Win the War
2:11 Short How Many Romans Died at Cannae? The Sources Disagree
2:07 The Battle Map That Explains Cannae
1:58 Short What Rome's Commanders Could See—and What They Couldn't
2:02 The Cavalry Move That Closed the Trap at Cannae
2:08 Short Why Hannibal Let His Center Bend Backward
2:02 Short The Roman Army Walked Into Hannibal's Trap at Cannae
20:06 Hannibal's Trap at Cannae: How Rome Lost an Army in One Day
2:25 Short How the Saratoga Surrender Brought France Into the War
2:21 Short Who Shot British General Simon Fraser at Saratoga?
2:14 Short Benedict Arnold Refused to Lose His Leg After Saratoga
2:25 Short Freeman's Farm: The British Won the Field and Lost the Campaign
2:23 Short Daniel Morgan's Riflemen Picked Off British Gunners at Saratoga
2:41 Short Gates's Saratoga Report Left Out Benedict Arnold
17:33 Saratoga Explained: How Burgoyne's Army Was Trapped in 1777
2:35 Short Why Burgoyne Waited for Help That Never Came at Saratoga
2:17 Was Peggy Shippen Part of Benedict Arnold's Treason?
2:15 The Pass Benedict Arnold Signed for British Spy John André
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