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American Revolution Podcast

AR-SP30 Defending Fort Stanwix, with Larry Kidder

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Author Larry Kidder joins us to discuss his latest book Defending Fort Stanwix, a fort on the western frontier of New York that contributed to the ultimate surrender of the British Army at Saratoga in 1777. Kidder discusses the siege, the related battle of Oriskany and why these events were so consequential to the war. If you would like to participate live in future events, please be sure to join my mailing list, or join as a member of the American Revolution Podcast on Patreon. Book: Defending Fort Stanwix, by William "Larry" Kidder. Other books by Kidder: The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis: 1754-1836, 2021 Ten Crucial Days: Washington's Vision for Victory Unfolds, 2019. Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton 1774-1783, 2017. Visit Larry's website at wlkidderhistorian.com, - - To receive invitations to future live events, join my mailing list, https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy or become a member on Patreon.com: https://www.patreon.com/amrevpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5

Hello, and thank you for joining this special edition of the American Revolution.

0:40.8

This month we have author Larry Kidder speaking about his new book, Defending Fort Stanwicks.

0:45.9

Mr. Kidder has published many books about the revolution, and in fact I've spoken with him before about an earlier book.

0:48.2

This interview was conducted during our monthly roundtable event in the February of 2025.

0:53.7

If you would like to join in on future roundtables

0:56.4

and participate live, be sure to get on my mailing list. I discussed Larry's book with him for about

1:02.2

45 minutes, then anyone who did join us live on Zoom for the event was able to ask questions.

1:09.5

Here is our discussion, as I said, recorded on Zoom.

1:13.0

Okay, welcome everyone to the American Revolution Roundtable.

1:17.2

We're joined tonight by author Larry Kidder.

1:20.9

His name on his book is William L. Kidder, but he goes by Larry.

1:25.0

This is a copy of his most recent book, Defending Fort Stanwyx, which is what we're

1:28.7

going to be talking about tonight. Larry, welcome to our roundtable. It's a pleasure to have you back

1:34.5

again. We've actually had you here, I think, once before, right? Yes, see that. Definitely. Larry's

1:41.1

written a lot of books on the American Revolution, so we'll put up a list of his entire work at some point.

1:46.8

So you can take a look at him, but he's written a lot of great things.

1:49.4

But we are here tonight to talk about defending Fort Stanwicks.

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