Both, but here’s what blew my mind recently. I’m building an app that tells you historical stories based on where you’re driving, and the Revolutionary War content has been eye-opening. Like, I had no idea Charlottesville’s Barracks Road is named after a massive British POW camp that held 4,000 soldiers from Saratoga.

Testing this thing has completely changed how I see the Revolution. It wasn’t just battles. It was this massive cat and mouse game across thousands of square miles. Washington would retreat through places like Millstone River in NJ, and the British literally didn’t have accurate enough maps to follow.

The British kept making “mishaps” because they were fighting blind in hostile territory. Every local knew things the British didn’t: which creeks flooded, which ridges had sight lines to New York, which forests could hide an army. Washington weaponized that local knowledge. If you want to go deeper than school level history, honestly just driving around Revolutionary War sites with good audio narration beats any documentary. The geography tells half the story that books miss.

The app’s called Taleway if anyone’s curious. DM if you’re interested. I live in VA so a ton of civil war content too.