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This Week on Dispatches: Franklin D. Rausch on the Siege of Savages’ Old Fields

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and distinguished professor Franklin D. Rausch on an early, pivotal battle between Patiots (Whigs) and...

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