True to the Old Flag by G. A. Henty

Pre 1801 Union flag of Great Britain, this was one of the flags used by the King's forces during the American Revolutionary War, image released by its author to public domain

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Summary: This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but – as a good book should be – everybody can enjoy it”. (Summary by Stav Nisser for Librivox)

British Army in Concord, handcolored engraving by Amos Doolittle, produced in 1775, public domain image

# 00 – Preface – 00:02:42

# 01 – Chapter 01 A Frontier Farm – 00:36:10

# 02 – An Indian Raid – 00:36:22

# 03 – The Redskin Attack – 00:29:15

# 04 – The Fight at Lexington – 00:27:00

Battle of Bunker Hill by Howard Pyle, public domain image

# 05 – Bunker’s Hill – 00:29:26

# 06 – Scouting – 00:33:14

# 07 – In the Forest – 00:32:34

Death of Montgomery during attack on Quebec, 1786 painting depicting a 1775 event, artist John Trumbull, public domain image

# 08 – Quebec – 00:34:21

# 09 – The Surprise of Trenton – 00:34:35

# 10 – A Treacherous Planter – 00:41:46

# 11 – The Capture of Philadelphia – 00:30:25

# 12 – The Settler’s Hut – 00:32:40

TTOF scene of the surrender of the British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 17, 1777, artist John Trumbull, public domain image

# 13 – Saratoga – 00:33:25

# 14 – Rescued! – 00:31:46

# 15 – The Island Refuge – 00:29:04

# 16 – The Great Storm – 00:22:28

# 17 – The Scout’s Story – 00:29:39

Hessian Troops in British pay during U.S. Revolutionary War, public domain image painted by artist C. Ziegler after Conrad Gessner

# 18 – The Siege of Savannah – 00:27:57

# 19 – In an American Prison – 00:32:03

# 20 – The War in South Carolina – 00:32:12

# 21 – The End of the Struggle – 00:10:39

American History Stories, Volume 2 by Mara L. Pratt

Bunker Hill

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Running time: 3 hours, 18 minutes

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Lexington Concord

01 – Causes of the Revolution

02 – The Stamp Act

03 – Behavior of the Colonists

04 – Daughters of Liberty

05 – The Boston Boys

06 – A Brave Little Girl

07 – The Boston Massacre

08 – The Boston Tea-Party

09 – Revolutionary Tea

10 – The Patriotic Barber

11 – Battle of Lexington
12 – Paul Revere’s Ride

Paul Revere's ride


13 – The Origin of Yankee Doodle

14 – The Women at Lexington

15 – Capture of Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga 1775

16 – Battle of Bunker Hill

17 – General Warren

Trumbull's Death of Gen Warren at Bunker Hill


18 – The March to Quebec

19 – Washington and His Army

20 – The Red-coats Leave Boston

21 – Declaration of Independence

22 – The History of Our Flag

American Flag history

23 – The Star Bangled Banner

24 – Our Flag is There

25 – A Petty Tyrant

26 – The Leaden Statue

27 – Free and Equal

28 – An Anecdote of Washington

29 – Lydia Darrah Saves General Washington

30 – Washington’s Christmas Surprise

31 – Washington’s Christmas Gift to the American Army

Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge

32 – Valley Forge

33 – Emily Geiger

34 – Massacre of Wyoming

35 – The Surrender of Burgoyne

36 – Saratoga

37 – The Half-Witted Tory Boy

Francis Marion Swamp Fox

38 – The Fox of the Southern Swamp

39 – Song of Marion’s Men

40 – The Women of South Carolina

41 – Israel Putnam

42 – Benjamin Franklin

43 – Poor Richard’s Almanac

44 – Arnold the Traitor and Andre the Spy

45 – Surrender of Cornwallis

46 – Anecdote of Burgoyne

47 – Nancy Hart

Lafayette

48 – Lafayette

49 – The Punning Parson

50 – Provost Cunningham

51 – America: or, My Country ‘Tis of Thee

General Warren

52 – General Joseph Warren’s Address

53 – My Country
54 – Memory Gems