Episode
Liberty's Kids: New York, New York
Overview
Sarah does a report on the loyalists opinion on the revolution in New York. Meanwhile James escapes to Manhattan with the Continental Army.
Details
- Series
- Liberty's Kids
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2002-09-19
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
New York, New York is Episode 14 in Season 1 of Liberty's Kids. It aired on 2002-09-19. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 12: Common Sense
Sarah, James and Henri meets Thomas Paine and they hear his beliefs on the common man and independence.
Episode 16: One Life to Lose
Sarah and James witnesses Nathan Hale's commitment to independence.
Episode 11: Washington Takes Command
Washington puts together the Continental Army. Meanwhile James goes with Henry Knox to get cannons from Fort Ticonderoga.
Episode 17: Captain Molly
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.
Episode 10: Postmaster General Franklin
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 18: American Crisis
The gang meets back up with Thomas Paine. Meanwhile, George Washington is under pressure to win his battle.
Episode 9: Bunker Hill
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 19: Across the Delaware
James learns more about the captured British spy.
Episode 8: The Second Continental Congress
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 20: An American in Paris
While visiting Abigail Adams, Sarah gets exposed to smallpox. Meanwhile Alexander Hamilton joins George Washington in the battle.