How Britain lost America
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Welcome to the History Extra podcast. In today's third episode of our Sunday series on the American Revolution, Professor Adam Smith and Eleanor Evans pick up the story as the revolutionaries face off against the might of the British Empire. It's 1776 and the new USA has declared its independence. So how did this new nation manage to survive? Facing the might of the British Empire, how did the revolutionaries avoid collapse?
What role did leadership, luck, and international alliances play? And when did victory begin to look possible? Welcome back to the History Extra podcast. I'm Eleanor Evans and I'm joined for the third episode by Professor Adam Smith. Thank you again, Adam, for joining us.
My pleasure. Wonderful to have you here. Last episode we talked about the Declaration of Independence and the newly formed United States of America had declared themselves a nation. And the question, I guess, not particularly laden with suspense from our point in history is can they survive as one?
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