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The story of the American Revolution is one of the best known in American history. But it could have been very different. Outgunned and outmanned against the might of the British Empire, America\u2019s revolutionaries found themselves backed into a corner from the start. Their solution was to turn to Europe\u2019s other superpower - France - for military aid. But the French were wary. 

Were it not for the actions of a renegade French spy and a secretive committee held in Philadelphia\u2019s Carpenters Hall in 1775, then French support may not have been forthcoming. Johanna Dunphy tells Don about this cloak and dagger meeting and how it altered the course of the War of Independence.

Produced by Benjie Guy. Mixed by Joseph Knight. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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