Episode

Liberty's Kids: Washington Takes Command

Name: Liberty's Kids: Washington Takes Command
Released: 2002-09-16
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Andrew Rannells, Ben Beck, Billy Crystal, Charles Shaughnessy

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Overview

Washington puts together the Continental Army. Meanwhile James goes with Henry Knox to get cannons from Fort Ticonderoga.

Details

Series: Liberty's Kids
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 11
Air date: 2002-09-16
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

Washington Takes Command is Episode 11 in Season 1 of Liberty's Kids. It aired on 2002-09-16. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 10: Postmaster General Franklin 2002-09-13 | 30 min When the Philadelphia patriots find out that some of their mail isn't being delivered to the right people by the British-controlled postal service, James and Sarah volunteer to carry important letters to New York. Ben Franklin becomes the colonies' Postmaster General on July 26, 1775.

Episode 12: Common Sense 2002-09-17 | 30 min Sarah, James and Henri meets Thomas Paine and they hear his beliefs on the common man and independence.

More episodes from this season

Episode 9: Bunker Hill 2002-09-12 | 30 min James witnesses the Battle of Bunker Hill from the American side, while Sarah interviews one of the British officers, and Henri acts as a messenger.

Episode 13: The 1st Fourth of July 2002-09-18 | 30 min Sarah and James meet Thomas Jefferson and witnesses the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Episode 8: The Second Continental Congress 2002-09-11 | 30 min Desperate for information on what Congress is doing behind the closed doors of the statehouse, James unknowingly befriends a British spy. Sarah and Moses meet George Washington and together use ""Yankee ingenuity"" to fix Washington's carriage after it breaks.

Episode 14: New York, New York 2002-09-19 | 30 min Sarah does a report on the loyalists opinion on the revolution in New York. Meanwhile James escapes to Manhattan with the Continental Army.

Episode 7: The Green Mountain Boys 2002-09-10 | 30 min James heads to the Grants to cover the story of the settlers' struggle; Sarah goes hoping to find a place in the Green Mountains for her family to settle, and Henri wants to find maple syrup. Sarah and James witness the capture of the fort and Sarah befriends Benedict Arnold, whom she instantly respects.

Episode 15: The Turtle 2002-09-20 | 30 min Sarah, Henri and James reports on a sea monster in the New York harbor, then they meet the submarine inventor David Bushnell.

Episode 6: The Shot Heard Round the World 2002-09-09 | 30 min James, reporting on the Minutemen, and Sarah, falling in with the British forces, report from both sides on the ""shot heard â€˜round the world"" at Lexington. They each leave the scene fearful of what the future will bring though James is caught up with the romanticism of fighting for liberty.

Episode 16: One Life to Lose 2002-09-23 | 30 min Sarah and James witnesses Nathan Hale's commitment to independence.

Episode 5: The Midnight Ride 2002-09-06 | 30 min Sarah and James travel to Boston to deliver a message to Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren and end up riding with the famous messengers so that they can write about it for the paper.

Episode 17: Captain Molly 2002-09-24 | 30 min With General Washington losing battle after battle, James' confidence wavers. He and Sarah go to Washington's camp to report from the front lines. However, because she is a girl, Sarah is sent to Fort Tryon with the other women and children. There, she befriends Molly, a spunky patriot whose husband was killed fighting the British. But then James finds out that the British are going to attack Fort Tryon! Meanwhile, back in Philadelphia, Moses starts teaching Henri how to read.