Ep. 8: War

Episode 8 of "Saint Louis: The Story of Catholic Evangelization of America's Heartland" dives into the era of near-constant warfare in the early 1700s as European conflicts spilled into North America. Monsignor and Teresa discuss how wars like Queen Anne’s War reshaped French and British territories, the expulsion of the Acadians that gave rise to the Cajun people, and the shifting alliances among Native nations. They recount the Fox Wars, sieges like the one at Detroit, and the brutal cycles of violence that fractured the French colonial “crescent.” The episode closes with the Natchez uprising of 1729, marking the spread of conflict to the South and setting the stage for further French struggles.

*Saint Louis: The Story of Catholic Evangelization of America's Heartland originally aired on Covenant Network Catholic Radio. These podcast episodes are being released in anticipation of the Bicentennial Celebrations of the founding of the Archdiocese of St. Louis as the Diocese of St. Louis on July 18, 1826.