🎧 The British in America's Revolutionary War
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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31m
Dan attends the funeral of British and American soldiers, over 240 years after they died fighting one another at the Battle of Camden. He takes us through the battle step by step, walking the fields of South Carolina and speaking with archaeologists, locals and soldiers to bring this British victory back to life.
Dan ends at a funeral procession that commemorates the lives of the men who died, and reminds us that the cost of war transcends the centuries.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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