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Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250. This is where we remember events that took place

250 years ago this week. It's a short bonus episode from the American Revolution podcast

to remember these important 250th anniversaries of the Revolutionary War.

This week we remember General Charles Lee's arrival in Charleston, which took place on June 4, 1776.

This episode is sponsored by the book The Banker Who Made America by Richard Vague.

This is a new biography of Thomas Willing, a man who played a key role in financing the American

Revolution and the founding of the United States government. It tells not only the story of

Willing, but his friends and associates, including Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton,

and how their financial acumen and political maneuvers in Pennsylvania and beyond

shaped the very nature of the American Republic.

Willing did his work in the background and is not well remembered today.

Richard Vague, who was Pennsylvania's security secretary a few years ago,

helps us to follow the money that made the revolution and the U.S. possible.

Willing was the key to all of it.

I've enjoyed this book so much that I've asked the author to join us for our June roundtable,

so this is a great opportunity for you to read the book ahead of time

and be ready to speak to the author at our roundtable.

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During the first year of the Revolutionary War, there was no southern commander of continental forces,

since there were no British regulars there, and the only real threats seem to be coming

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