49: The Boy On The Dock
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49: The Boy On The Dock
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In 1765, dockworkers in colonial Virginia found a small boy, alone and crying, speaking a language none of them understood. No parents, no papers — just a name he kept repeating. That abandoned child grew into a giant, and became one of the most legendary soldiers of the entire American Revolution — a man some called George Washington’s one-man army. This is the story of Peter Francisco, where history and tall tale collide, and the truth is remarkable enough on its own.
In this episode:
- The mystery of a five-year-old abandoned on a Virginia dock, speaking only Portuguese
- How an illiterate blacksmith’s apprentice grew to a towering 6'6" and heard Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty or give me death”
- The special broadsword Washington is said to have had made for a man too big for an ordinary blade
- The legends — the 1,100-pound cannon, the nine dragoons at the tavern — and where the documented record ends and the folklore begins
- The nine-inch bayonet wound he survived, and the hard road from war hero to honored old soldier
🎙️ Anonymous America is a production of Hey Dad Productions, hosted by Jerry Broadway.
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