War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding right down to the present.

Wars made the United States independent, kept it together, increased its size, and established it as a global superpower.

Hi, I'm James Early, host of the Key Battles of American History podcast.

In each episode, I discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's Wars.

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Let's say you want to go to war and it's 1200 AD in France.

You're a knight and you're the dominant force on the battlefield.

You probably lead cavalry charge, and a cavalry charge of knights on their steeds is one of the greatest offensive weapons around.

Now your enemy is probably going to be in a castle, so you have to know all about siege warfare,

how to make siege towers, maybe how to dig or tunnel, or do whatever you can to overcome these thick walls.

The time you get into the 15th and 16th centuries, warfare changes completely.

Canons make castles obsolete, firearms and pikes replace the sword, knights are no longer the dominant fixture on the battlefield.

And also warfare gets a lot bigger, instead of a few thousand or maybe few tens of thousands of people in pitch battle,

you can get armies with hundreds of thousands of people.

To talk about what happens in history and not just with military technology, but with bureaucracy,

with record keeping, and other things that create the modern state is Patrick Weiman.

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