War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello, listeners, and welcome to a special episode of Key Battles of American History.

This is James, your host, as always.

As you know, I am part of the Parthenon Podcast Network, which is a network that I think has several outstanding podcasts, including, as you know, History Unplugged, which is our flagship podcast.

It's our longest running one, our most popular one, hosted by Scott Rank.

We also have the History of the Papacy by Steve Guerra.

We have also by Steve Beyond the big

screen. We have This American President by Richard Lim. We have the eyewitness history podcast by

Josh Cohen. And we have the newest one that is vlogging through history by Chris Maori.

And I listen to every single one of them, and I really enjoy them.

So I hope you'll check those out if you haven't already.

After you finish listening to mine, of course.

But since I am part of that network, what we do, all the members of the network do feed drops

for each other.

And if you've been with me a while, you know that I've already done several.

In fact, I've done a feed drop for all the podcasts that I mentioned. And we are now going

into our second group of feed drops. So what I'm going to be presenting to you here in just a little

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