The Breaking Point — How a Shot in the Pennsylvania Wilderness Set the World on Fire.

In 1754, a 22-year-old Virginia militia officer named George Washington fired a volley in the forests of Pennsylvania that a British politician later said "set the world on fire." That single event set off a chain reaction — a world war, a bankrupt British empire, a taxation crisis — that made the American Revolution not just possible, but inevitable.

This is American history told honestly. No myth. No agenda. Just the real story — messier, more complicated, and more extraordinary than anything you learned in school.

Hosts Amanda and Harry bring you inside these events from two perspectives — an American curious about her country's origins and a British historian whose nation was on the other side of it all.