Jane McCrae documentary on the History Channel

Buried Secrets of the Revolutionary War.

 

Airs on:
Friday, November 26 @ 8:00PM ET/PT
Saturday, November 27 @ 12:00AM ET/PT

 

In 1777, as the Revolutionary War escalated, colonists in upstate New York faced a brutal British strategy--employment of Native Americans as scouts with orders to create chaos, kill militia, and scalp colonists. Set against this scenario, we investigate a forgotten incident in American history--the death of Jane McCrea. Engaged to a British loyalist, Jane was abducted in an Indian raid. But was she scalped by British-allied Indians, or mistakenly shot by colonial militia trying to save her? Hunting for clues, forensic anthropologists open her grave and find two sets of bones--but no skull! Scientists search for Jane's kinfolk and, aided by DNA analysis, computer facial reconstruction, and historical research, try to resolve questions about her death and the mysteries uncovered in her grave.

 

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