Watched the first episode of Washington on the History Channel tonight. Well done, warts and all. Looking forward to seeing more.
When the family lived in NYC for a few years in the late 60s/early 70s, I was was the blossoming pre-teen history nut who insisted we visit every Revolutionary War and Civil War site within weekend driving distance. . . .
One of the interesting things about both of those multi-year conflicts is how many of the major battles and events transpired in what we today consider relatively small areas geographically.
It’s something I found hard to get across to kids when I did my teaching degree with a major in history — that people/armies walked everywhere and lived off the land. That at best it would take months for communications to cross the Atlantic Ocean and back. . . .
Heck, even when my ancestors came to Canada in the late 19th/early 20th C, they knew it was a one-way trip and that they would likely never see their families, friends, and neighbours face-to-face again.
