Liberty's Kids

Season 1 Episode 26: Honor and Compromise

Nov 04, 2002 TV-Y7 24m 7.8

The States struggle to unite politically before the arrival of the French Ambassador (5/9/78-7/8/78).

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Boston Tea Party

1. The Boston Tea Party

Aired: Sep 2, 2002

When Moses, James and Henri come to Boston pick up Sarah, they find themselve...

Episode 2 The Intolerable Acts

2. The Intolerable Acts

Aired: Sep 3, 2002

Needing to escape occupied Boston, the kids can't stay out of trouble during ...

Episode 3 United We Stand

3. United We Stand

Aired: Sep 4, 2002

Sarah and Henri deliver a letter to Abigal Adams, while James learns some har...

Episode 4 Liberty or Death

4. Liberty or Death

Aired: Sep 5, 2002

While on a business trip to Virginia, the gang find Moses' brother enslaved a...

Episode 5 Midnight Ride

5. Midnight Ride

Aired: Sep 6, 2002

Paul Revere and William Dawes spread the word that the "British are coming!" ...

Episode 7 Green Mountain Boys

7. Green Mountain Boys

Aired: Sep 10, 2002

Trouble erupts in the New Hampshire Grants when settlers are forced from thei...

Episode 12 Common Sense

12. Common Sense

Aired: Sep 17, 2002

The kids meet the hot headed idealist, Tom Paine, whose popular anti-monarchi...

Episode 14 New York, New York

14. New York, New York

Aired: Sep 19, 2002

At the Battle of Long Island, Washington fights the British in open field bat...

Episode 15 The Turtle

15. The Turtle

Aired: Sep 20, 2002

The first attempt to sink a ship with a submarine fails (9/6/76).

Episode 16 One Life to Lose

16. One Life to Lose

Aired: Sep 23, 2002

A failed peace conference between the British Admiral Howe and John Adams and...

Episode 17 Captain Molly

17. Captain Molly

Aired: Sep 24, 2002

Ben Franklin, appointed to a commission to negotiate a treaty with the French...

Episode 18 American Crisis

18. American Crisis

Aired: Sep 25, 2002

The low point of the war for the Americans has arrived and General Washington...

Episode 19 Across the Delaware

19. Across the Delaware

Aired: Sep 26, 2002

To prevent ultimate defeat, Washington and his forces cross the Delaware Rive...

Episode 20 An American in Paris

20. An American in Paris

Aired: Sep 27, 2002

Ben Franklin sets up residence in Paris and begins his uphill battle to enlis...

Episode 21 Sybil Ludington

21. Sybil Ludington

Aired: Sep 30, 2002

Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes her own "midnight ride" in Westchester...

Episode 22 Lafayette Arrives

22. Lafayette Arrives

Aired: Oct 1, 2002

The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette arrives after an eventful journey from F...

Episode 24 Valley Forge

24. Valley Forge

Aired: Oct 3, 2002

James, Sarah and Henri are there as George Washington and his Continental Arm...

Episode 25 Allies at Last

25. Allies at Last

Aired: Oct 4, 2002

News of the American victory at Saratoga helps pave the way for Ben Franklin ...

Episode 26 Honor and Compromise

26. Honor and Compromise

Aired: Nov 3, 2002

The States struggle to unite politically before the arrival of the French Amb...

Episode 27 The New Frontier

27. The New Frontier

Aired: Nov 4, 2002

In the Ohio territory, Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his people are caught betw...

Episode 29 The Great Galvez

29. The Great Galvez

Aired: Nov 6, 2002

Spanish Governor Bernardo de Galvez aides the American cause by capturing Bat...

Episode 30 In Praise of Ben

30. In Praise of Ben

Aired: Nov 7, 2002

Sarah returns to Philadelphia and is reunited with her friends just in time t...

Episode 31 Bostonians

31. Bostonians

Aired: Nov 10, 2002

Sarah and Henri join the Adams family in Massachusetts just as John and his s...

Episode 32 Benedict Arnold

32. Benedict Arnold

Aired: Jan 19, 2003

James, Sarah and Henri are there when Arnold tries to hand West Point over to...

Episode 35 James Armistead

35. James Armistead

Aired: Jan 22, 2003

Virginia slave James Armistead joins Lafayette and spies on Benedict Arnold (...

Episode 36 Yorktown

36. Yorktown

Aired: Mar 30, 2003

The climatic battle of the war.

Episode 39 Going Home

39. Going Home

Aired: Apr 2, 2003

With the signing of the Treaty of Paris, loyalists are forced to leave their ...

Episode 40 We the People

40. We the People

Aired: Apr 3, 2003

With the new nation falling apart under the Articles of Confederation, Americ...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: PBS

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Family, War, Animation, History

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