Episode
St Clair's Defeat - Washington's Worst Disaster
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- Forgotten Wars
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- Nov 17, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 3548
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Summary
Today the US army is the most formidable in the world, but in the young nations early years it was a very different story. Amateurish, badly led and underfunded, it stumbled into the worst military defeat in American history. A defeat so terrible it would change the American army forever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.