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American Revolution Podcast

AR-SP49 Facing Washington's Crossing, with Seven Bier

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our April Round Table hosted Steven Bier, author of Facing Washington's Crossing: The Hessians and the Battle of Trenton. To see upcoming roundtable events, or listen to past recordings, go to ⁠⁠⁠AmRevRT.org⁠⁠⁠ To participate live in future Zoom events, be sure to join as a member on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠, or sign up for my ⁠⁠⁠mailing list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.6

Welcome to True Spies.

0:07.0

The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

0:12.5

Suddenly out of the dark that's appeared in Lobbin.

0:14.5

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

0:18.1

What do they know?

0:19.2

What are their skills?

0:20.5

And what would you do in their position?

0:22.9

Vengeance felt good. Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.

0:29.1

True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. costs.

0:50.6

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

0:55.9

Our American Revolution Roundtable was joined this month by Stephen Beer,

1:02.0

the author of Facing Washington's Crossing, the Hessians and the Battle of Trenton.

1:07.0

It's a look at Washington's Crossing from the perspective of the Pressions.

1:12.9

Beer also takes a deep dive into the Hessian background, letting us know a little bit more about Hessa Castle, the landgrave who ruled it, and how the people live there. Our discussion was

1:19.0

recorded on Zoom. So welcome everyone to the American Revolution podcast Roundtable. Our special

1:25.9

guest tonight is Stephen Beer, an author of the book Facing

1:29.4

Washington's Crossing, The Hesians in the Battle of Trenton. Stephen, welcome to the American

1:35.1

Revolution Roundtable. Thank you. Great to be here. This is an interesting perspective. We don't

1:40.6

normally think of the American Revolution from the perspective of the Germans.

1:44.9

What inspired you to write this book?

1:46.9

I wish I could take credit.

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