From the Illinois Channel archives.. we offer an encore presentation of Author David McCullough talking to a Union League Club audience about his book, "1776." The book recounts the battle of independence, and how American Farmers under the leadership of George Washington, managed to defeat the British Army -- the greatest military power at that time.
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