1. The Reluctant Revolutionaries: 1763-1774
Aired: Nov 23, 1997Follows the happenings in Northamerica and England during 1763-1774.
Days after the Declaration of Independence is signed, a British force arrives in New York harbor. Washington and his troops are driven to New Jersey. With only a few days of enlistment left for many of his volunteers, a desperate Washington leads his army quietly across the Delaware River on the day after Christmas, 1776, to mount a surprise attack on a sleeping garrison in Trenton.