# St Clair's Defeat - Washington's Worst Disaster

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Podcast: [Forgotten Wars](https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-wars-7064088)
Published: 2025-11-17T01:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/forgotten-wars/episodes/691a5c187a0043834af36136
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## Resource

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.

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