Been wondering that lately myself.
I have completed Ep 3.
It was the best of the 3 so far. It focuses, important word, on what is important (when one defines important to be what decides the outcome of the Revolution).
Now, some could interpret “important” to mean immersing oneself in morality. But that didn’t decide the Revolution.
The interesting part of the southern colonists doing massacres on the indians to the west of them and taking that land was that it would not have happened had the British not gotten smashed at Charleston harbor. Had that not happened, the local militias would have been fighting repeat landings of the British rather than heading west to take land.
I also did not know that the attack on Trenton was 3 pronged, and only Washington’s prong actually reached Trenton. The rest held up by weather, and it was only 9 miles.
The show has history academe given their snippets of minutes and not a one of them has failed to say that Washington’s numerous skills, likely impossible to find in anyone else, is why there is a United States. He had jealous rivals. Other generals who wanted the fame. But while they may have been superior tacticians, they did not inspire, they did not persuade, and frankly, they did not put themselves into battles in personal danger.
All generals want to be in history books, immortal for winning battles (or wars). Washington’s challengers could not have done what he did. And that’s why he dominates that era. History academe would love to bury itself in his ownership of slaves, but the show so far mentions it and spends nowhere near the time necessary to “bury”. The show makes very clear he was . . . everything.