The War of 1812: From Ashes to Anthem | The American Story | Ep 12
The Glenn Beck Program
Mercury Radio Arts
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:32.0 | It's August, 1814. The air in Washington is heavy with humidity and dread. |
| 0:39.2 | British troops are in Maryland closing in a rapidly tightening noose around the young |
| 0:43.7 | nation's capital. |
| 0:45.6 | The city, it's a sitting duck, half built, barely defended. |
| 0:50.2 | Amid the growing frenzy of activity, one unassuming hero emerges. |
| 0:55.0 | Stephen Pleasanton, a senior clerk in the State Department. |
| 1:00.0 | He's just a guy with a desk job, racing against time to save America's indispensable, |
| 1:05.0 | most priceless possessions, the fragile papers that form the blueprints of our nation. So Stephen Pleasanton springs into action. |
| 1:13.6 | He dashes out and buys bolts of sturdy linen. Back at the office, he and his fellow clerks |
| 1:20.6 | grab scissors and just start cutting. They stitch the fabric into makeshift book bags. Then they open the drawers in the cabinets |
| 1:28.0 | delicately lifting out the contents. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, treaties, |
| 1:35.3 | letters in George Washington's handwriting. These are the original copies, the document DNA of America. |
| 1:43.8 | Pleasanton meticulously tucks them into bags. There is no margin |
| 1:48.2 | for error here. There can be zero snags or tears, yet the clock is ticking. Rumors of redcoats |
| 1:55.0 | swarm the streets. The bags are quickly loaded onto a makeshift convoy of wagons. Pleasanton leads the charge, |
| 2:03.7 | escorting them across the Potomac at dusk. They rumble into a grist mill on the Virginia side of |
| 2:10.2 | Chain Bridge, wheels grinding over rough roads. They unload the bags, and they're about to stash them |
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