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 and welcome to another special episode of Key Battles of American History.

I'm your host, James Early.

As always, today I have a special guest with me, Carl Archer.

Carl is an attorney in New Jersey whose primary

era of practice is helping caregivers and families of elderly and disabled persons. He has a bunch of

fancy credentials that nobody wants to hear about on a history podcast, but he assures me that he's

good at his job. His research and intellectual interests include the ways the law

interacts with various facets of history, politics, and culture, including the military and war.

Carl's primary qualification for appearing on this podcast is that he is a fan of the Key Battles of

American History podcast. All right, listener, if you're thinking, wow, James all of a sudden

became a jerk. Carl wrote that, James all of a sudden became a jerk,

Carl wrote that. So Carl has a sense of humor. Carl, welcome to Key Battles of American History.

How are you, sir? I'm doing quite well. My mission was to pretty much prove that, you know,

you can listen to a lawyer and not fall asleep. So that's what we're going to try and do

today. That's what we are going to do. And you will not fall asleep because this is a fascinating

topic. Carl is one of my patrons on patreon.com. He's a member of my group called Early's Raiders.

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