Ep. 311 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Admiral Peter Cressy, USN, Retired | America 250: Washington's Stand Against the British Fleet in New York

Signing the Declaration of Independence was just the beginning. We then had to go out and confront the British and earn our independence. The first major battle of the American Revolution after signing the Declaration of Independence was the Battle of Long Island in the summer of 1776. Gen. George Washington faced off against a larger and better equipped Naval force and though the Continental Army…