Charles Thomson was the only person who witnessed the entire American Revolution from the inside.

As Secretary of the Continental Congress for all 15 years of its existence, he recorded every debate, every argument, every petty dispute, and every shameful compromise made by the Founding Fathers. His signature appears on the Declaration of Independence alongside John Hancock's.

George Washington called him indispensable. John Jay said no person in the world knew more about the Revolution than Thomson. He saw it all. He wrote it all down. And then he burned it.

Thomson spent years writing a detailed 1,000-page manuscript about what really happened during the Revolution, the political infighting, the unpatriotic conduct, the vanity and selfishness of revered leaders like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin. But before his death in 1824, he destroyed nearly everything. His reasoning? "Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men. Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done. I shall not undeceive future generations."

Join us as we explore the most important historical document that never survived, the man who deliberately chose mythology over truth, and the secrets of the American Revolution that died with Charles Thomson. Historians have mourned this loss for 200 years. What did he know? What did he destroy? And was he right to do it?

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