Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,

Podcast about Early American History with Liz Covert.

The study of history is key to understanding who we are

and how we can affect a better future.

Van Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.

And now, here's your host, Liz Colart.

Hello and welcome to episode 81 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

It's trivia time.

When did the fighting of the American War for Independence come to an end?

Did you answer Yorktown? In school we learned that the fighting of

the war came to an end at Yorktown, but today Don Glickstein, a former journalist and

author of After Yorktown, the final struggle for American independence,

is going to take us on a whirlwind tour of all the fighting that took place after October

1781.

During our global tour of the American War for Independence, Dawn reveals details

about the Battle of Yorktown. Fighting that took place in southern, northern, and western

North America, the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and India, and when the war

actually ended and what happened when it came to an end. But first, did you know that

there's an online community of Ben Franklin's world

listeners? It's called the Ben Franklin's World Community and it's hosted on

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