A look at the 300-year saga of the American Soldier.

"As seen on public television"--Container. Special features: downloadable historical overview; downloadable timelines; 38 downloadable maps; scene selection. [These features require a DVD-ROM reader and a computer).

disc 1. 1700-1790. Program 1. Wars for the continent : 1702, Queen Anne's War -- 1713, Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War -- 1739, War of Jenkins Ear begins -- 1754-1763, French and Indian War -- 1763, Pontiac's War -- 1770, Boston Massacre -- Program 2. : The revolutionary war : 1775, Battle of Lexington and Concord -- 1775, George Washington assumes command of the Continental Army -- 1776, Washington crosses the Delaware -- 1777, Second Battle of Saratoga -- 1777, John Paul Jones sets sail -- 1777-1778, Winter at Valley Forge -- 1778, George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia -- 1781, Siege of Yorktown. disc 2. 1790-1870. Program 3 : Manifest destiny wars : 1797, U.S.S. Constitution is launched -- 1811, Battle of Tippecanoe -- 1814, Washington is captured and burned by the British -- 1814, Star Spangled Banner is written -- 1815, Battle of New Orleans -- 1832, Black Hawk War ends with massacre at Bad Axe River -- 1836, Alamo falls -- Program 4. The Civil War : 1846, United States declares war on Mexico -- 1861, Eleven states comprise the Confderacy -- 1862, Emancipation proclamation -- 1863, Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address -- 1863, Fall of Vicksburg -- 1865, Lee surrenders at Appomattox. disc 3. 1870-1950. Program 5 : Imperial wars : 1750, Native American horse cultures dominate the Great Plains -- 1876, Battle at the Little Big Horn -- 1890, Battle at Wounded Knee -- 1898, Sinking of the Maine -- 1914-1917, Ameica prepares for World War I -- 1917, America enters World War I -- Program 6 : The global war : 1941, Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- 1944, D-Day "Operation Overlord" -- 1945, Air Force drops an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima -- 1950, President Truman sends American troops to the aid of South Korea -- 1950-1953, Korean War. disc 4. 1950-today : Program 7 : The cold war : 1952, Marshall plan wins the battle for Western Europe -- 1954, John Foster Dulles becomes Eisenhower's Cold War warrior -- 1962, Cuban missile crisis -- 1964, Vietnam: Congress passes Gulf on Tonkin resolution -- 1968, Vietnam War: Tet Offensive -- Program 8 : Police wars : 1973, Vietnam: cease fire ends war -- 1983, Grenada conflict -- 1991, End of the Cold War -- 2003, Gulf War II.