The budding Philadelphia bromance of Founders Thomas Jefferson and John Adams along with the teary-eyed and tender last moments of spymaster John Andre from those with him at the gallows both are explored As are many other unexpectedly wild stories from The Revolution like the theft of Thomas Paine’s bones by grave robbers and what has become of them.

Our deepest gratitude as well to Dr. Arron Sullivan for his exceptional Revolutionary Wartime strategic analysis and research in to the Philadelphia occupation during the war, and continued readings from his book, “The Disaffected:Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution.” Available from University of Pennsylvania Press.

The Disaffected – Penn Press

War, intrigue, Alexander Hamilton fawning over the spymaster John Andre, and the capture of the city of Philadelphia by hostile enemy forces. Lighting our homes on fire while inviting our daughters to parties and desecrating Independence Hall. The wartime occupation of Philadelphia was the high-point of the American Revolution in so many ways.

Join Grim Philly as we unfold for you a more compelling, terrifying and hopeful story than any Hollywood story ever could. With spine-tingling and touching human stories from the Revolution, New York to Philadelphia.

At the dawn of 1776 Philadelphia was the largest city in north America…bigger than Boston and New York combined. A strategic port for the hearts and minds of colonists: for revolutionaries and for the crown. Both would occupy Philadelphia by force at different times no matter what Philadelphians thought about it.

Join Grim Philly as we flesh out the entire grey area of The Revolution and Philadelphia’s place in it: for loyalists, for The Church, for revolutionaries, and for The Disaffected – the majority of Philadelphian’s who were in fact neutral.

We talk Generals Washington, Howe, Burgoyne, strategy; bootcamps and battles too. We set the scene and immerse you in what it would have been like to Be a Philadelphian in 1776, and dive in to the hard questions historians always ask about those in the middle.

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