In this episode, we explore the american revolution was a proxy war. Did you know that during the American Revolution, more patriots actually died rotting away in the suffocating halls of British prison ships anchored in New York Harbor than were ever killed by a British musket ball on an actual battlefield? I mean, it's a staggering statistic, really. And it completely shatters that pristine imagery we usually associate with the founding of the United States. Exactly. Yeah. Usually when we think about the story of this nation's founding, there's this expectation of, like, pristine clarity. Oh, for sure. The textbook paintings, the immaculate uniforms. Right. The noble poses, those straight lines of infantry. It all just seems so inevitable. Like our history neatly categorized in these heroic chapters. We do, yeah. But then you step into the actual  ...