Friends of Liberty

Friends of Liberty is the podcast for people who want the full story of the American Revolution — not just the famous names, but the spies, soldiers, radicals, and forgotten heroes who made independence possible. Three episodes a week, seven to ten minutes each, produced by First Inning Press and written by historian Jim Stovall. Stories you won't hear anywhere else. Subscribe free at friendsofliberty.substack.com and join us in celebrating America's 250th anniversary. friendsofliberty.substack.com

Friends of Liberty is a history podcast hosted by Jim Stovall, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jim Stovall hosts Friends of Liberty, a history show with 39 episodes published.

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  Episode 12: Patience Wright — The Sculptor Who Spied in Plain Sight

  May 28, 20267 minS0

  <p></p><p>An American woman ran the most fashionable wax sculpture studio in London throughout the Revolutionary War. Lords, ministers, and members of the royal family sat for their portraits while she molded warm wax and listened carefully to everything they said. She passed what she learned to Benjamin Franklin in Paris — sometimes hiding written intelligence inside the wax figures she shipped across the Channel. She was never arrested, never charged, and never came home. The most notable of her surviving works stands today in Westminster Abbey.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to...

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  Episode 11: Moore's Creek Bridge — The Uprising That Never Happened

  May 26, 20267 minS0

  <p>February 1776. The British plan to secure the South before the rebellion could take hold depended on 1,600 Highland Scottish Loyalists marching to the coast to meet a British fleet. Two Patriot colonels got to a small wooden bridge first, removed the planks, greased the support beams, and waited. The battle lasted three minutes. The British Southern strategy collapsed. The South remained in Patriot hands for four more years — long enough for Nathanael Greene to win it decisively. Moore's Creek Bridge is forgotten because it succeeded so completely. The disaster it prevented never happened.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public ep...

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  Episode 10: James Armistead Lafayette — The Spy Who Helped End the War

  May 24, 20268 minS0

  <p></p><p>In the spring of 1781, an enslaved Virginia man walked into the British camp and offered his services to Lord Cornwallis. Cornwallis accepted. What Cornwallis didn't know was that James was working for the Marquis de Lafayette — gathering intelligence about British troop movements, intentions, and the fateful decision to fortify Yorktown. The intelligence he provided helped close the trap that ended the war. He spent six years after Yorktown still enslaved before petitioning the Virginia legislature for his freedom. He took the surname Lafayette in honor of the general who had recognized his service when almost no one el...

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  Episode 9: Beaumarchais — The Playwright Who Armed the Revolution

  May 21, 20268 minS0

  <p></p><p>The author of The Barber of Seville had a second career that history has largely forgotten. In 1776, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais created a fictitious trading company, filled it with French army surplus, and smuggled an estimated ninety percent of the gunpowder used by the Continental Army in the war's early years across the Atlantic. The Battle of Saratoga — the turning point that brought France openly into the war — was fought largely with weapons he supplied. He died still waiting to be repaid.</p><p>Thanks for reading and listening to Friends of Liberty! </p><p>This post is p...

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  Episode 8: Oriskany — Neighbors at War

  May 19, 20268 minS0

  <p></p><p>August 1777. A relief column marching through the Mohawk Valley walks into one of the most brutal ambushes of the entire war. The general commanding it is shot from his horse early in the fighting — and directs the battle from under a tree, bleeding steadily, calmly smoking his pipe. The military outcome stopped the western prong of Burgoyne's invasion. The human cost went far deeper — at Oriskany, Mohawk warriors and Oneida warriors fought each other, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which had maintained unity for centuries, fractured permanently.Thanks for reading and listening to Friends of Liberty! </p><p>This...

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