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Oh Fatal Ambition: 1777-1778 S01 E04

The "united" states remain in dire need of funds and military support. Congress dispatches Benjamin Franklin to France in hopes of creating an alliance which will provide both. Meanwhile, a British army marches down the Hudson River trying to cut off New England from the other colonies. The British are crushed by Americans at Saratoga. The French enter the conflict on the American side.


Series Cast

Victor Garber (as John Dickinson) Donna Murphy (as Abigail Adams) Alex Jennings (as King George III) Anthony Heald (as Philip Vickers Fithian) Colm Feore (as Alexander Hamilton) Peter Donaldson (as John Adams) Stephen Lang (as George Washington) Jefferson Mays (as James Madison) Edward Herrmann (as Narrator) Philip Seymour Hoffman (as Joseph Plumb Martin) Jane Adams (as Sara Scott) Jake Weber (as Virginia Officer) Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (as Luke - Slave) Terrence Mann (as General John Burgoyne) Mel Johnson Jr. (as Jehu Grant) Paxton Whitehead (as Horace Walpole) Remak Ramsay (as Thomas Hutchinson) Forrest Sawyer (as Self - Host) Campbell Scott (as Thomas Jefferson) Roger Rees (as Thomas Paine) James Naughton (as Patrick Henry) Philip Bosco (as Benjamin Franklin) Joris Stuyck (as Johann Ewald) Steve Zahn (as American Sergeant) Francie Swift (as Baroness von Riedesel) Simon Jones (as Ambrose Serle) Daniel Gerroll (as General Charles Cornwallis) Roberta Maxwell (as Mercy Otis Warren) Byron Jennings (as John Hancock) JD Cullum (as Nicholas Cresswell) Neil Maffin (as Anti-Federalist) Kali Rocha (as Eliza Wilkinson) Mark Letheren (as British Soldier) Douglas Weston (as Sir George Collier) Austin Pendleton (as Benjamin Rush) John Ellison Conlee (as Col. Henry Knox) Andreas Beckett (as Lieutenant Colonel Baum) David Bishins (as Melancton Smith) Sebastian Roché (as Marquis de Lafayette) Rob Campbell (as Noah Webster) Ronald Guttman (as Comte de Rochambeau) David Yelland (as Edmund Burke) Mark Nelson (as Loyalist) James Murtaugh (as Anti-Federalist) Murphy Guyer (as Benjamin Gilbert)


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