1776년 12월, 전기 실험으로 세계적인 명성을 얻은 벤자민 프랭클린이 미국 독립의 운명이 걸린 비밀 임무를 맡아 프랑스로 향하고, 그의 열정과 힘이 시험대에 오른다.

Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew parallels with 1960s political activism.

개인적인 야망이 가득한 아버지가 없는 젊은 군인이 어떻게 모든 것을 희생할 의지가 있는 사람들의 지도자가 되는가에 대한 이야기. 한때 충실한 영국인이 새로운 국가를 만들기 위한 자유 또는 죽음의 캠페인에 제국과 싸우기 위해 어떻게 부상하고 있는가. 그리고 어떻게, 그의 힘의 정점에, 승리한 장군이 자발적으로 내려와, 조지 3세 왕이 "세계 최고의 남자"라고 부르는 것이 되었는가.”

The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures. The American Revolution, will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through.

Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. Uncover the forgotten history of Warren and stories of other unsung heroes in our fight for independence.