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Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

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Cavalcade of America

    • SeasonsYearsTop-rated
    • 12345
  • Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E1 ∙ Poor Richard

    Wed, Oct 1, 1952
    A dramatization of how Benjamin Franklin delayed a conference between Lord Howe and John Adams until the spring rainy season commenced, allowing General Washington to extricate his troops from Long Island under the cover of a storm.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E2 ∙ All's Well with Lydia

    Wed, Oct 15, 1952
    The Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelphia widow, who by her cleverness gained information instrumental in an American victory.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E3 ∙ The Man Who Took a Chance

    Wed, Oct 29, 1952
    The story cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney and the beginning of interchangeable parts for rifles.
    5.6/10 (11)
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E4 ∙ A Romance to Remember

    Wed, Nov 12, 1952
    Young Nathaniel Hawthorne is prodded to greater literary efforts by an ambitious woman.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E5 ∙ What God Hath Wrought

    Wed, Nov 26, 1952
    The story of how Samuel Morse, after many hardships, gained recognition for the first telegraph.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E6 ∙ No Greater Love

    Wed, Dec 10, 1952
    Nurse Clara Louis Maas volunteers to be bitten by a dreaded mosquito so that the research on yellow fever can go on.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)
    Top-rated

    S1.E7 ∙ In This Crisis

    Wed, Dec 24, 1952
    John Honeyman, American patriot, pretends to be a Tory in order to gain information that will mean Washingtons victory over the Hessians.
    9.3/10 (19)
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E8 ∙ The Arrow and the Bow

    Wed, Jan 7, 1953
    The career of Andrew Johnson, who, starting as a tailor, became the 17th President of the United States.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E9 ∙ What Might Have Been

    Wed, Jan 21, 1953
    The story of Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, and Sarah Taylor, daughter of the future president of the United States. Their love was fated to end in tragedy.
    Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E10 ∙ New Salem Story

    Wed, Feb 4, 1953
    Story of Abe Lincoln and his love for Ann Rutledge.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E11 ∙ A Matter of Honor

    Wed, Feb 18, 1953
    A historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and his wife, Eliza, which resulted in Houston's resignation of the governorship of Tennessee.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E12 ∙ Experiment at Monticello

    Wed, Mar 4, 1953
    Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, uses himself as a guinea pig and is inoculated with the germs of small pox in a heroic effort to establish control of the disease.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E13 ∙ Mightier Than the Sword

    Wed, Mar 18, 1953
    A pre-Revolutionary War drama. The freedom of the press is upheld through the trial and acquittal of John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper publisher imprisoned for printing the truth about corruption of the British administration.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E14 ∙ The Indomitable Blacksmith

    Wed, Apr 1, 1953
    A story about Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith, and his long struggle to invent and perfect the electric motor. Setting: Brandon, Vt., in the 1830's.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E15 ∙ The Gingerbread Man

    Wed, Apr 15, 1953
    A comedy-drama about an elderly German baker who persuades 123 Hessian soldiers to desert the British Army during the American Revolution.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E16 ∙ Night Strike

    Wed, Apr 29, 1953
    John Paul Jones undertakes the first hostile invasion of England since 1066 as he endeavors to prove to all the world that the American Navy and the American government are to be reckoned with.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E17 ∙ Slater's Dream

    Wed, May 13, 1953
    English law in 1790 forbade taking written information on the cotton spinning machine from the country. Samuel Slater, however, memorized the plans and went to America to try to build a machine from memory.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E18 ∙ The Pirate's Choice

    Wed, May 27, 1953
    Dramatizes the events which led to the decision of the pirate Jean Lafitte to join Andrew Jackson in the defense of New Orleans against the English forces in 1814.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E19 ∙ John Yankee

    Wed, Jun 10, 1953
    Dramatizes John Adams' difficult and unpopular decision to defend eight English soldiers who participated in a Boston riot prior to the Revolution.
    Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)

    S1.E20 ∙ The Tenderfoot

    Wed, Jun 24, 1953
    In 1866, Teddy Roosevelt goes west to begin anew after great personal tragedies and, undaunted by a blizzard, pursues and captures three outlaws in the Dakota Bad Lands.

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