{"id":5713,"date":"2026-08-12T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/did-america-really-win-the-war-of-independence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:37:23","slug":"did-america-really-win-the-war-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/did-america-really-win-the-war-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Did America really &#8216;win&#8217; the war of independence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4oxRoUxt798?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Professor Adam IP Smith, in conversation with HistoryExtra&#8217;s Elinor Evans, explains how the American revolutionary fight became a waiting game. Discover how George Washington&#8217;s strategic foresight played a crucial role in enduring tough times, which contributed to this attritional struggle. <\/p>\n<p>Adam is the expert in HistoryExtra&#8217;s podcast series on the American Revolutionary War. You can listen to the series wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it now on the HistoryExtra Podcasts YouTube channel.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4oxRoUxt798\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Adam IP Smith, in conversation with HistoryExtra&#8217;s Elinor Evans, explains how the American revolutionary fight became a waiting game. Discover how George Washington&#8217;s strategic foresight played a crucial role in enduring tough times, which contributed to this attritional struggle. Adam is the expert in HistoryExtra&#8217;s podcast series on the American Revolutionary War. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150910,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}