Next on the Lectures in History podcast, William and Mary lecturer Robin Schroeder,

examines a little-known revolutionary war site in Williamsburg, where colonial troops built an encampment

ahead of the decisive 1781 Battle of Yorktown.

Speaking near the historic grounds,

Professor Schroeder explains how the site served as a key staging area,

where soldiers lived, trained, and prepared

for the final campaign against British forces.

More in a moment.

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Welcome to a very special edition of History 413 revising and revisiting revolution, colon, the campus at William and Mary.

We are here today with the topic of the college camp.

This is what the sixth day in human history where we could have stood and said we're at

the likely side of the college camp because we have just located it as of last week, as

you all know. And we're here today with a couple of guests. We have Rob Garnett, who's here from the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown where he's an historical interpreter to help us understand what the encampment site was and how it would have been used and what did a contental soldier carry and where and what the space would have been like.

And Shannon White, who's back with us from the Center for Geospatial Analysis, to help us with this,

now that we're standing in this landscape, try to understand what made this a good site for an encampment that was used at least for three years 1775 to 78 and heavily used when a portion of the

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