The 1777 British Invasion of Delaware

In this episode, we follow the British invasion of Delaware in 1777 and the grueling campaign that led to the Battle of Brandywine and the fall of Philadelphia. What begins as a seemingly brilliant British flanking maneuver becomes a story of exhaustion, miscalculation, and brutal human endurance, as General Howe’s army endures a miserable month-long sea voyage, lands in the mud at Head of Elk, and fights its way north through Delaware while Washington struggles to predict where the real blow...