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The Revolutionary War’s Charlie Wilson: A Spanish Spy Chief Funded the Siege of Yorktown, Helping Washington Win
Everyone knows the American Revolution was won at Yorktown in 1781, when Cornwallis's Army was trapped, but almost no one knows that victory depended on a Spanish intelligence operative who raised 500,000 pieces of silve...
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The Revolutionary War’s Charlie Wilson: A Spanish Spy Chief Funded the Siege of Yorktown, Helping Washington Win is an episode from History Unplugged Podcast by Scott Rank, PhD. Everyone knows the American Revolution was won at Yorktown in...
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Published May 12, 2026, 59:09 long, audio available.






